The Earth Science Week Update
EARTH SCIENCE WEEK UPDATE
American Geosciences Institute
Vol. 6, No. 6: June 2008
IN THIS ISSUE…
* Earth Science Week Offers ‘Journey 3D’ Educator Guide
* Global Partnership Hosts Additional Photo Contest
* Professional Development in Earth Science Now Online
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Earth Science Week Offers
‘Journey 3D’ Educator Guide
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AGI, organizer of Earth Science Week, has collaborated with the makers
of “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D,” due in theaters
July 11, to create an Educator Guide linked to this major movie release.
Starring Brendan Fraser, “Journey 3D” will plunge its characters
- and viewers - into the exciting world beneath the Earth’s surface.
AGI and Walden Media, which is producing this update of the Jules Verne
classic, have developed a booklet of related geoscience information
and standards-based activities, using the movie as an opportunity to
explore “science fiction and science fact.”
For a printable PDF of the “Journey 3D” Educator Guide, go
to http://www.earthsciweek.org online.
To learn more about the movie, including a games, sweepstakes, and blogs,
visit http://www.journey3dmovie.com/
online.
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Global Partnership Hosts
Additional Photo Contest
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In addition to the traditional Earth Science Week (ESW) photo, art,
and essay contests, AGI is partnering with the organizers of International
Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) to offer a joint IYPE-ESW 2008 Photo Contest,
open to shutterbugs worldwide.
The theme of the IYPE-ESW 2008 Photo Contest is “Exploring Earth
Science Around the World.” Entrants are encouraged to submit photos
that show people engaged in Earth science exploration in the natural
environment of their part of the world. AGI will accept photo submissions
via email until the end of Earth Science Week, Friday, October 17, 2008.
Winners will receive cash prizes and recognition.
Spanning from February 2007 to December 2009, IYPE aims to demonstrate
new and exciting ways Earth science can help future generations meet
the challenge of ensuring a safer and more prosperous world. IYPE is
a joint initiative by UNESCO and the International Union of Geological
Sciences.
Visit
http://www.earthsciweek.org/contests/index.html for more information
about the IYPE-ESW 2008 Photo Contest and other Earth Science Week contests.
To learn more about IYPE, visit http://www.esfs.org online.
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Professional Development
In Earth Science Now Online
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Summer is the perfect time to enhance your professional development.
For growth opportunities tailored to the needs of Earth science educators,
explore GeoScience Connections, a comprehensive set of online graduate
courses offered by AGI and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
GeoScience Connections is designed specifically to increases science
teachers’ knowledge of Earth system science and inquiry-based science
instruction. Focusing on interactions among Earth systems - geosphere,
biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and exosphere - courses
incorporate hands-on and technology-based teaching techniques.
Available are courses on Fossils, Weather and Climate, and Soils and
Landforms. Each course provides 3 graduate credits from IIT. Visit
http://www.cpd.iit.edu/shortcourse/PLED571.html
to learn more.
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The American Geosciences Institute is a nonprofit federation of 44 geoscientific
and professional associations that represents more than 120,000 geologists,
geophysicists, and other earth scientists. Founded in 1948, AGI provides
information services to geoscientists, serves as a voice of shared interests
in the profession, plays a major role in strengthening geoscience education,
and strives to increase public awareness of the vital role the geosciences
play in society's use of resources and interaction with the environment.
For contact information, please visit
http://www.earthsciweek.org/contactus/index.html.
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