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Question #7 --
Does your society
offer "Rocks in Your Head" course or similar courses to teachers?
27 societies
answered no to this question and 9 societies answered yes.
Below are their answers.
- East Texas
Geological Society
- Yes, we
work with a local Children’s Science Museum. They offer a program
(weekends) and a summer (week day camp) program. We sponsor children
to these programs.
- Houston
Geological Society
- We offer
Earth Day presentations and financial support for local presentations
of Denver Earth Science Project programs.
- Kansas
Geological Society
- Presented
"Rocks in Your Head" in 1999 to 100 teachers with a waiting list
of 15. Will present a similar course in August, 2002 Members man
a booth at Earth Day where educational materials are distributed.
- Lafayette
Geological Society
- LGS offered
the "Rocks in Your Head" course when we hosted the GSAGS convention
in 1999. The attendance was capped at 50 due to the AAPG moving
the response deadline up and the school system’s failure to
get the message out to the teachers.
- Los Angeles
Basin Geological Society
- We have
in the past when the LABGS hosted the Pacific Section of the AAPG
convention. The 2003 convention will be the LABGS and we intend
to do so again.
- Michigan
Basin Geological Society
- We recently
offered the course with the Eastern Section.
- Roswell
Geological Society
- Rocky Mountain
Association of Geologists
- "Yes,
I think the "Rocks in Your Head" was developed locally by Steve
Williams who was chair of the K-12 program of the AAPG for sometime".
- West Texas
Geological Society
- The "Rocks
in Your Head" course if offered through the WTGF.
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