Participants will be provided airfare and travel support, four nights’ lodging, meals, and class materials.
Purpose of the Workshop:
Our nation faces serious challenges when attracting young people to science and its related careers. To address these issues, School of Ice partners have created a rigorous professional development workshop for college faculty and high school teachers who teach advanced science courses. This program will provide cutting-edge paleo-climate evidence derived from ice cores and provide resources necessary to bring this exciting inquiry into new and existing Earth and environmental science classes on their campuses.
The experiential nature of this workshop will build background knowledge of cutting-edge research and empower participants to communicate authentic paleo-climate research practices, ice core data, and results to their students.
Program Commitments
Within two weeks of workshop completion, participants will be expected to:
- Write a summary of how they have professionally benefited from participation in this workshop.
Within a semester of workshop completion, participants will be expected to:
- Write a Plan of Action to begin or expand paleo-climate study and research opportunities for their undergraduate students.
- Demonstrate how they will integrate workshop information and climate change curriculum within new or existing geoscience courses by creating two written curriculum pieces dealing with the topic accompanied by an explanation of how the curriculum will be used.
