ESCI1090 — Earth Science for Educators
ESCI 1090 - Earth Science for Educators ESCI 1090 - Earth Science for Educators Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 2 Course Description: This course is intended for education majors. It includes a survey of the Earth sciences with a broad and non-quantitative introduction to topics in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. In addition, course will provide curriculum surveys of media and instruction models for Pre-Educators in K-8 education tracks. It will cover four major Earth event to spheres (lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere) modeling projects with an emphasis in interrelated systems analysis that are applicable to grades K-8. Students will develop these four models working in small collaborative groups. Laboratory investigations, field work, collaborative projects and a minimum 20 hour service learning component, arranged through the Service Learning Coordinator, will provide hands on, real time individual, and group learning opportunities for this class. MnTC Goals None Student Project 3: Sea Ice Disintegration Geologic Time, Earth History. Field Trip 2: Mississippi River Banks. Student Project 3: Sea Ice Disintegration Introduction: The Earth as a System of Interacting Spheres; Minerals: Student Project 1: Global Deforestation Light, Astronomical Observations, and the Sun: Field Trip 3: Night Sky Observations Mass Wasting, Volcanoes Field Trip 1: St. Croix River Valley (35mm slides), Student Project 2: Volcanoes Minerals, Igneous Rocks, Student Pro