Geo. teacher of the year

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From: Eric Muller (emuller@isaac.exploratorium.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 11:55:25 PST 

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From: Eric Muller <emuller@isaac.exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Geo. teacher of the year

>Call for Nominations for the Year 2004 NCGS Competition
>
>The Northern California Geological Society (NCGS) is pleased to announce
>that it will accept applications from candidates in the Northern
>California region for the Year 2004 competition for the Earth Science
>Teacher of the Year Award. The $750 NCGS award is intended to recognize
>pre?college earth science programs already in place, and to encourage
>their organization in districts where they have not been fully
>developed. Nominations of qualified K-12 teacher candidates are solicited
>from teachers, school administrators, teacher outreach programs, and other
>interested parties.
>
>The deadline for application submittal by candidates for the $750 NCGS
>award is Friday, February 13, 2004.
>
>Requirements:
>
>1. Minimum of three years full?time teaching experience at any level
>K-12.
>
>2.Teaching an earth science program including at least one unit per year
>that deals with natural resources. Natural resources are defined as Earth
>materials used by civilization past and present such as:
>
>a. Organic materials found in the Earth such as petroleum, natural gas,
>coal and oil shale.
>
>b. Inorganic materials found in the Earth including minerals, ores,
>building stone, and aggregate.
>
>c. Geothermal energy and water resources.
>
>3. Teaching should include the scientific study of these resources, their
>origin, discovery, extraction, and historic and present use. It should
>also include a balanced presentation of environmental protection,
>reclamation, and resource conservation issues, and the use of earth
>science knowledge in decision making.
>
>4. Entries should include the teacher's philosophy of teaching natural
>resources (both content and pedagogy), a description of the unit and two
>letters of recommendation. One letter should be from a colleague and one
>from an administrator.
>
>5. Unit will be evaluated on depth and breadth of concepts (resource
>origin, discovery, processing, usage and reclamation), creativity of
>presentation and balanced treatment of information regarding societal need
>and environmental issues, relative to appropriate grade level. Please
>include the length of the unit.
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>Ellen P. Metzger
>Professor and Co-Director, Bay Area Earth Science Institute
>Department of Geology
>San Jose State University
>San Jose, CA 95192-0102
>Phone 408-924-5048; Fax 408-924-5053 

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Eric Muller
Exploratorium Teacher Institute
Science Educator
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco, CA 94123

415-561-0386
emuller@exploratorium.edu

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