Program

Monday

EER Day 1 Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 2.4MB Jul17 18)

8:30 - Session welcome, facilitator introductions, framing, and overview

9:00 - Small group breakout and icebreaker activity - Why might we use societal issues to teach about the Earth?

9:30 - Small group/gallery walk - Develop a list of objectives/outcomes for teaching about the Earth in the context of societal issues

10:15 - Break

10:30 - Presentation - Theoretical frameworks for teaching about the Earth in the context of societal issues

11:00 - Small group - Sharing participants' research and/or educational programming focused on teaching about the Earth in the context of societal issues, alignment with objectives/outcomes

11:20 - Road Check Monday

11:30 - Adjourn for the day

Tuesday

8:30 - Session welcome and recap from Day 1

8:45 - (continued from Monday) Small group - Sharing participants' research and/or educational programming focused on teaching about the Earth in the context of societal issues, alignment with objectives/outcomes

9:15 - Methodology demo - Geoscience literacy and decision-making strategy for instruction and research

10:00 - Break

10:15 - Methodology demo - Quantitative Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning (QuASSR) (PPT slides SSR_and_QuASSR_071618_handout.pdf (Acrobat (PDF) 2.4MB Jul18 18) )

11:20 - Road Check Tuesday

11:30 - Adjourn for the day