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2010-2011 Teacher Workshops at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Teacher analyzing tree core samples Teacher in the field taking tree cores Teachers learning AEJEE

Teachers at the November 2010 & February 2011 Workshops at UAF were able to:

• Learn to use GPS receivers to navigate on the landscape

• Create unique GIS maps with Mac and PC computers using AEJEE

• Explore the landscape - examine flooding, erosion, permafrost, tree coring and
   local knowledge

• Learn about Alaskan place names and valuable local knowedge

• Practice, review, and evaluate MapTEACH curriculum lessons

• Practice, review, and evaluate MapTEACH Google Earth Lessons

• Leave the class with useful materials specific to their home community in Alaska

During this course, hands-on experiences explore the new, standards-based MapTEACH curriculum, focused on understanding the local landscape and learning to make computer-based maps of scientific, cultural and personal significance. Course includes classroom studies, computer lab, and field work with local landscape experts and geologists.

THANKS to all the teachers who have helped to improve the curriculum!

For more information contact Sidney Stephens sastephens@alaska.edu, 907-474-7628

Teacher taking GPS waypoints during fieldtrip      Teacher taking GPS waypoints during a fieldtrip.

Staff preparing for a lesson on permafrost.
             Staff preparing for a lesson on permafrost.

 

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MapTEACH began as a collaboration between the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, the University of Alaska Fairbanks,
and the Environmental Remote Sensing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is now a central component of the
University of Alaska Geography Program (UAGP), K-12 education network.

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Last Updated April 25, 2011