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=Welcome to STEM 24 Summer Institute = Session 1 July 13-July 23, 2009 Session 2 July 27-August 6, 2009

Deborah Olesh, Instructor
dolesh@schools.nyc.gov

This course will combine topics in Earth Science with Web 2.0 tools to help you implement the course content into your classroom instruction. We hope that these tools will help you increase and improve communication between you and your colleagues, and you and your students. The possibilities are endless!

At the conclusion of this course, you will have created a module of lessons related to the content of the course, and a wiki of your own to post them on.

This wiki will be a place for resources related to this course, and a place for discussion and comment. It also models some of the various kinds of dynamic content that you can add to your qwn wiki. = = =Agenda = =Week 1= Day 1- · Introduction, purpose and goals · Composition of the Earth’s Crust – An introduction to minerals and rocks Density Activity · Mineral and Rock Identification Activity · Day 2 – The Geologic History of New York City · Geologic and social history of Central Park – Central Park as a teaching resource.
 * Maps
 * Yosemite Map video
 * Topographic mapping activity

Day 3- Field trip to Central Park….We will meet at the Monument at the Maine at 10:30. Wear walking shoes and bring water, hat, bug spray etc

Day 4 – give one, get one - sharing of trip ideas Planning a content focussed field trip Standard based lesson plans · Infusing technology into science instruction – An Introduction to Web 2.0 tools · Blogs, wikis, Google Apps and other tools We will begin working on science/tech course project

=Week 2= Day 1-
 * The Dynamic Earth – Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
 * Activity - Locating the epicenter of an earthquake.
 * Reading and sharing a research paper
 * Discussion - Lesson planing for a class trip to a NYC cultural or scientific institution

Day 2- Using Technology
 * Creating your wiki
 * Embedding dynamic Google Docs into your wiki.

Day 3 Field trip to the American Museum of Natural History

Day 4 Class project - using Google Docs and wikis

Working on course project