Through our five workshops together, we have provided
many classroom activities and earth science content in order to
emphasize two main themes:
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Energy comes in many forms and the transfer of energy is responsible
for many earth processes and for shaping our Earth.
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The Earth is one system that involves interactions between
the different “spheres” of our Earth: biosphere,
lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.
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At the last stop of this field trip, the teachers
were asked to take a moment to enjoy one of the most beautiful places
on Earth to contemplate these major themes. For a final activity,
teachers were asked to find one scene that exemplified these concepts
and themes and to make a sketch of it. They were reminded that just
because the concepts are large, that doesn’t mean that the
example has to be at a large scale. Even one grain of sand, as we
have learned, can tell a complex geologic story related to wave
energy, gravity, ocean currents, deposition, and rock formation.
Selected examples:
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