Thanks for being a part of the Rural Arizona Teachers Professional Learning Cohort!
Please fill out the information below to indicate your interest in a couple of upcoming field trips. Our hope is that engaging in an interdisciplinary STEM experience will bring you new inspiration for developing classroom content while also building relationships with other rural STEM teachers from across the state. We will set aside time during each field trip experience to collaboratively build lesson plans to support your teaching. If you'd like to share your blank lesson plan template with other attendees, please email it to Anna Pawlow at apawlow@societyforscience.org.
We will have funding to support your food and travel needs for the day, and may be able to accommodate an overnight stay, if your travel requires it. Please give your best guess of travel expense needs in the appropriate questions below. Also, check out this reimbursement form, so you'll know what we'll need from you in order to reimburse your expenses.
To prepare for each field trip, we ask
that you bring the following:
- Any relevant resources
related to mining, mineralogy, environmental impacts, etc.
- Your preferred lesson
planning template
- Your initial thoughts
about creating a lesson plan
Here are a few resources that may help you take different
pathways to the lesson plan creation (minerology, mining careers, environmental
impact of modern society, restoration, material science, etc.):
Dig
into Mining
U of A’s School of
Mining a & Mineral Resources
Uses of
Copper
Materials
of the last century shaped modern life, but at a price
Why
we should stop ignoring the life stories of minerals
Please email Kal Mannis at mannisk@azscience.org with any questions.