EET Workshops Implementation
Use this template to share the results of how you have incorporated the techniques of an EET chapter into your teaching. Let us know how you used the EET in the classroom by describing the projects and activities that you carried out with your students. In addition to this template, post a PowerPoint presentation or a text file with screen shots to document your results.
Name: Wende Irick
Position and school: Science Teacher, Earth and Physical
Title of the EET Chapter on which you based your Project or Activity: Seafloor Topography
Dataset Used: GeoMapApp
Tool Used: GeoMapApp
Project/Activity Question(s):
Where would you expect to find the deepest part of the ocean?
Why?
Where did you find the deepest part?
Why?
Why aren’t all subduction zones this deep?
What will happen to mid ocean rifts in the future?
What will happen to continental rifts in the future?
What will happen to the Himalayas in the future?
Where would you expect volcanism in the future?
Why?
Project/Activity Goal(s):
Using GeoMapApp to ascertain where the deep trenches and rifts are and why.
Brief Description of the Project/Activity (What did students do?): Directed the teacher to explore and bring up cross sections of seafloor topography as well as land topography. Explain and discuss the reasons for such forms.
Number of Students (With how many students did you carry out the project/activity?): 102
Time Spent on the Project/Activity (How many hours or class periods did the project/activity take?): 2 hours
Your Reflections on the Project/Activity:
How do you feel the project/activity went with students? Very well. It would have been better if the students could have done the GeoMapApp for themselves but the IT department isn’t on the ball and I couldn’t get them on in the computer labs.
What sorts of questions did student ask? What insights did they have? How proficient are students in using the dataset and/or tool of the EET chapter? This was probably the easiest chapter I have ever used with students. It was basically just a point and click type thing so the students could concentrate on the data not the process.
How will you carry out this project/activity differently in the future?
Hope to have more computers with access.
In addition to this template, please post a PowerPoint presentation or a text document with screen shots to document your results. Include examples of representative student work (without names) and any handouts or introductory materials you may have provided to accompany the project/activity.
We watched several plate tectonic/volcano videos from the Discovery Chanel/Science Chanel and National Geographic and did several demonstrations about plate tech. You can see a few of them below.