Professional Development Opportunity

Webinar: Ocean Acidification - Bridging Earth Science and Chemistry

Cost: Free

When: Thursday, November 2, 2023, 4:00 pm ET

Where: Virtual via Zoom

Duration: 1 Hour

Registration: Register by November 1, 2023 

Webinar Description: 

The spirit of NGSS is to break down disciplinary silos and encourage students to make cross-curricular connections, but this can be challenging, especially at the high school level. Infiniscope, a NASA-funded project, has been working to create mix-and-match learning modules that enable educators to organize their classrooms around specific phenomena and storylines. In this webinar, we'll share our newest suite of learning experiences tied to the anchoring phenomenon of Ocean Acidification and the investigative phenomenon of declining oyster populations. We'll share early results from student testing, plans for future learning modules, and how you can get involved.

Question: Contact Ashley Carlson, acarlson2@carleton.edu 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and Earth Science Week program partners invite students, educators, geoscience professionals, and others to participate in the "Geoscience Innovating for Earth and People" Webinar Series during Earth Science Week (October 8-14, 2023).

This webinar series will cover an array of thought-provoking, timely topics relating to the theme and will feature:

• Partnerships Provide Safe Drinking Water to Rural Communities, 1 p.m. EDT, Monday, October 9. Geoscientists can form innovative relationships to solve problems that a community may face. Speakers will share how scientists and students have worked together and used a variety of techniques to locate safe drinking water for rural communities.
• Drones for Earth Science, 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, October 10. Drones allow us to study Earth in new ways. Collected data can help monitor phenomena such as natural hazards, climate change, and resource extraction. This webinar will explore many ways that drones are being used in the geosciences, including recent drone innovations and classroom applications.
• Photogrammetry: Introduction and Applications in Geoscience and Geoscience Education, 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, October 11. Three-dimensional models can be used to inspect samples, such as rocks or corals, and model environmental changes over time. Speakers will introduce photogrammetry, a method for creating 3D models, and its many applications in geoscience education and research.
• The Future of Earth's Critical Materials, 1 p.m. EDT, Thursday, October 12. Critical minerals, and more broadly critical materials, are essential for many industries and products, but the availability of these materials is at risk. This webinar will discuss both critical minerals and materials. Talks include an innovative method for locating critical minerals, as well as ways in which students, educators, and the public can engage with critical materials. 
• The Invisible Mine: Envisioning the Future of Mining in Europe, 1 p.m. EDT, Friday, October 13. Emerging robotic technologies are set to revolutionize the future of mining. This webinar will discuss cutting-edge innovations in artificial intelligence-guided robotics funded by European Union research programs. The aim is to highlight the emergence of a new paradigm of near-invisible, minimally invasive mining enhanced by robotics, where raw materials are supplied reliably and ethically without harming natural ecosystems or human communities.

Registration is required to attend the webinars live, or to be notified when recordings are available. The live webinars will have question-and-answer periods with presenters.

For more information, visit Earth Science Week Webinar Series.

About AGI
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI), a federation of scientific and professional associations representing over a quarter-million geoscientists, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to serving the geoscience community and addressing the geoscience needs of society. AGI headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia.

GeoSTEM Academy at Sterling Hill

Professional Development Teachers Grades 3-1

Sterling Hill Mining Museum, Ogdensburg, NJ

Cost: $35.00, Space is limited to 30, Registration closes October 13th or when capacity has been met

Saturday, October 21, 2023, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Description: The origins of our everyday “stuff” is a mystery to most. This workshop will take you on a natural resource journey from ore to store to explore how Earth materials are acquired and refined to create the products on our shelves.

Create a Virtual Field Trip with Tour It!

Virtual Professional Development - 14 hours upon completion. June 27 - 29, 2023

In this workshop, you'll learn how to plan for success, capture and source media, and create your own virtual field trip with Tour It, Infiniscope's exclusive virtual tour builder. Add interactive hotspots, embed YouTube or Vimeo clips, and guide your learners through multiple locations as they engage with the environment and build curricular connections. Register

Paleontological Research Institution Event

The Electric Grid & the Energy Transition Panel Discussion

Thursday, May 25, 2023 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Climate change demands that we transition our energy systems off fossil fuels and on to one based entirely on electricity. What does this mean for the existing electrical grid and what’s it going to take to upgrade the grid to reliably handle all that electricity?

Climate Justice: Exploring the Science of Climate Change in Your Classroom

Who: Teachers in the Detroit area, upper elementary, middle school and high school.

Cost: $50

When/Where: July 11 - 13, 2023, Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Center

What: NOAA Planet Stewards and the Detroit Zoological Society are hosting a three-day in person workshop for educators to explore how global climate change is affecting the metro Detroit region, and how they can engage their students in taking action to address this global phenomena.

More Details: Teacher Professional Development - Detroit Zoo

QGreenland Educator Workshop 2023 Design Learning Activities with GIS Tools

Stipend Opportunity: $250

Application Deadline: Monday, April 17, 2023

Program Overview: Authentic learning activities for undergraduate students can be difficult to find and time-consuming to generate. QGreenland invites educators to a dedicated workshop to co-develop learning resources using QGreenland data. The workshop will bring together instructors across disciplines to create learning resources which use Greenland-focused data that can then serve the larger community. The workshop will include training on how to use research-based pedagogical approaches. This workshop is best suited for formal undergraduate or graduate educators. Familiarity with QGIS or willingness to complete the beginner tutorial series is preferred.

Join NESTA and Presenter: Kristin Hunter Thomson from Dataspire Education & Evaluation, LLC (https://dataspire.org/) April 18th 7PM EDT.
Cost: Free to all interested

We will review research on how people learn from data to make our instruction more successful. We will explore how to get students exploring and graphing data as they work to make sense of it. We will discuss various strategies to use to adjust our own curricula.

Webinar Date: Tuesday April 18, 2023 7PM ET.

Registration deadline: Monday, April 17th

Registration: https://forms.gle/yGgTdpEKBbfqpp4JA

Summer Institute for Climate Change Education

Virtual Conference July 17 & 18 plus one regional cohort day on July 19th, 20th, or 21st.

$250 Registration Fee, 20 Hours of Continuing Education, Graduate Credits Available

Join Climate Generation, NOAA’s Climate Program, and 18 regional climate change education leaders with educators from across North America and the Pacific Islands dedicated to teaching climate change as an interdisciplinary issue. You’ll leave feeling supported, informed, and connected to a network of educators and change-makers across the continent all with the shared purpose of engaging students and their communities to create a future where climate justice is a reality.

NAGT K-12 Professional Development Opportunities

This resource is the brain child of the NGSS-ESS Working Group, which is a collaboration between the National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA), the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), and the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). The mission of this collaboration is to support Earth and space science educators in all aspects of NGSS-ESS implementation.