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LOCATION:NCA&T State
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SUMMARY:IRIS Teacher Professional Development - Africa Array
DESCRIPTION:Earth System Science Institute for Educators\n\nPurpose of the
  Workshop:\nTo learn about earth systems\, participate in hand
 s-on activities that can be used in the classroom\, and obtai
 n FREE materials\, maps\, curriculum guides\, and books correla
 ted to the National Science Education Standards. The program
  is open only for high school science teachers. Preference w
 ill be given to those teaching at least one section of Earth
  Science.\n\nParticipants will be encouraged to become engaged
  with the content and inquiry based materials and design cla
 ssroom experiences that relate to Earth Systems Science\n\nas 
 an active participant\, learning through demonstrations\, comp
 uter modeling\, and hands-on activities\;\nas an educator\, awar
 e of how your students will interact with the materials and 
 activities\; and\nas a peer\, providing feedback and suggestion
 s to the presenters and other participants.\n\nTopics covered 
 include: causes of earthquakes\, plate tectonics\, propagation
  of seismic waves\, seismographs\, earthquake locations in Afr
 ica\, statistics and seismology data\, Earth’s interior stru
 cture beneath Africa\, earthquake hazards and local seismicit
 y in Africa\, climatological processes from the global scale 
 down to the microscale\, understanding the nature of climate 
 and the role that it plays\,and the development of lesson pla
 ns from the vast NOAA data archives.\n\nFor more information o
 r to register:\nSheila McDaniel\nE-mail: sdmcdan1@ncat.edu \nor
  visit:\nhttp://noaaiset.org
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