Youth Education Activities Committee
What we do (Mission Statement)
The Youth Educational Activities Committee serves the membership in the coordination on a national level of the many K-12 programs of individual AAPG members, affiliated societies and sections.
It originates and manages programs on the national and international level such as the Earth Science Teacher of Year Award and Teachers Days at the national and sectional meetings.
It assists and coordinates earth science and energy activities and programs of national youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and 4H.
It serves as a liaison to other earth science organizations in joint activities relating to earth science and energy on a national and international level.
Its overall mission is to provide a central organization to help the AAPG membership provide an appreciation of the geoscience profession and its professionals to K-12 students and teachers.
YEA Committee Information
- Members and contact information
- This page may list membership without contact information to avoid spamming. A general contact such as the chair may be posted here and also to the AAPG staff liaison for facilitating the exchange of information from the general public
- Subcommittees
- Names of each subcommittee and what their task(s) is(are) along with the chair of that subcommittee. Included on this page will be a progress report of the work assigned
- AAPG Section and Society activities
- A listing of what other sections and societies affiliated with AAPG are doing to promote geoscience within the K-12 community of their location
- Links to pertinent websites
- This needs to be developed and added into AAPG's Gateways. If you want a link evaluated use the forum to post what you observed and what the URL is. There the link may be discussed and once a decision is made it can be incorporated into the public area of the AAPG site.
- Forum
- A place to post information, reports, ask questions, etc.
- Your log-in is the same used for the Members Only area of the AAPG Web site.
K-12 Teacher Resources
Content needed for the following links to be provided in the public area of the AAPG site. Following is a starting list and a brief description of the content within the proposed page.
Place-holders have been provided at this mockup of the K-12 teacher resources public area of the AAPG Web site to help you visualize how the information is organized. You will note a possible YEA logo designed by Rusty Johnson which will allow the yellow pencil theme to be used throughout the site.
- Affiliated Organizations
- Information pulled together by Bob Cowdery through a survey sharing what other societies and organizations are doing. It contains links, publications and much more.
- Teacher of the Year
- Resources for Scouters & 4H
Need information but will start with:
- Boy Scouts: Ron Hart
- Girl Scouts: Lee Avary
- 4-H: Alan Degood
- Earth Science Week
- As information is provided by AGI we can fill this or just simply provide a link to AGI's details.
- Cool geology capsules
- Want to build this page through contributions from the committee and AAPG members. Need to divided into topics or subjects as information is collected. Suggested topics include:
- Rocks
- Astrogeology
- Plate tectonics
- Quizzes
- Looking for your ideas on this one.
- Thinking about earth science careers?
- Need a subcommittee chair for this