Newsletter 25 - Earth Science Week Special

24 Sep 2020

SPECIAL EDITION in preparation for
INTERNATIONAL EARTH SCIENCE WEEK

International Earth Science Week will be celebrated from October 11-17. Now is the time to plan and prepare how your students could enjoy, explore, and learn about geoscience during this week.

You might promote this year's theme - "Earth Materials in Our Lives" - by preparing activities that help your students explore Earth science in the classroom or at home. You could start with the exciting classroom activities featured on the Earth Science Week website:
https://www.earthsciweek.org/ .   You will find some great ideas in reports on successful past events and recommendations for other ways to get involved.

You might also want to consider some of the following educational resources that have been developed for our Geoscience Pathways Project, by local SA Science Teachers and others, specifically designed to meet the needs of the SACE and the Australian Science Curriculum.

In Newsletter 25  we have the following:

• Climate Change for Year 10
• The Copper Story: virtual classroom visits by geologists (BHP)
• Hidden secrets written in stone: Decoding Hallett Cove with virtual reality
• Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide
• GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposia (GESSS)
• Rocks for younger students (R-4) - Youtube videos
• FREE CLASS SETS of ROCK and Mineral hand specimens
• FREE PD WORKSHOPS for PRIMARY and SECONDARY teachers
• Printable Learning resource: Minerals in a smartphone poster
• Global Soils Project for Junior Primary Students
• 2020/2021 Committee Members

Download: Newsletter 25

The next Committee meeting will be a ‘virtual’ meeting using Zoom in Term 4
Wednesday 4th November 4:30 - 5:30, all are welcome.

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