Professional Development Experience For Educators
Learn about earthquakes, seismology and plate tectonics!
Participate in hands-on activities that can be used in your classroom!
Obtain FREE materials, maps, curriculum guides, and books!
In an IRIS Professional Development Workshop participants will be encouraged to become engaged with the content and materials.......
- as an active participant learning through demonstrations, computer modeling, and hands-on activities.
- as an educator , aware of how your students will interact with the materials and activities, and
- as an peer , providing feedback and suggestions to the presenters and the other participants.
Topics covered include: causes of earthquakes, earthquakes and plate tectonics, propagation of seismic waves, seismographs, earthquake locations, statistics and seismology data, Earth's interior structure, earthquake hazards and local seismicity
Schedule
A calendar of upcoming IRIS Professional Development Events
Sample Agendas
If you would like more details on a session, there are two sample agendas below.
Professional Development Philosophy
The IRIS Consortium is committed to increasing educators "comfort" in their classroom by providing professional development experiences which,
- increases an educator's knowledge of scientific content,
- provides educators with a variety of high-quality, scientifically accurate activities to deliver content to students, and
- provides educators with experiences involving both scientific content as well as the educational activities as the primary means of knowledge transfer. (Modeling effective pedagogy)
Evaluation
An evaluation of IRIS's Professional Development can be found here.
