2015 Workshop materials | Teacher (Grades 6 - 12) and Park Ranger & Interpreter Development Courses

Geodetic resources shared in 2015 workshops: ESIP Educator 2015 Workshop, Pacific Grove, California; Colorado Science Conference for Professional Development, Denver, CO; AGU Geophysical Information for Teachers (GIFT) Workshop Shareathon, San Francisco, California

• About UNAVCO (Explained in 3 Minutes) [youtube]
• Looking Down a Well: A Brief History of Geodesy [youtube] Source: NASA
• Exploring Tectonic Motions using GPS Velocity Maps
• Student worksheet [pdf]
• Mini-poster (8.5 x 11-inch pdf)
• Seismic Hazard Map of the United States
• GPS Velocity Map Posters: Including "Tectonic Motions of the Western United States" and "Tectonic Motions of Alaska"

Workshop resources: Southwest Native Science Educators Workshop (NSEW), Tempe, AZ

• Workshop Agenda [pdf]
• Workshop details and more presentations
• UNAVCO Presentation: Getting to Know EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory & UNAVCO [pptx] [pdf]
• Map of the southwestern United States showing earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate motion using data from GPS sites of the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory and other networks using NAM08 Reference frame
  
• UNAVCO Educational Activity: Visualizing relationships with data: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plate Tectonics

Relevant resources: USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory Open House

• UNAVCO Highlight: Mount St. Helens 35 Years Ago and Now
• Open house at USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
• Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO)

Workshop resources: Midwest Native Science Educators Workshop, Cass Lake, MN

• Workshop Agenda [pdf]
• Getting to know EarthScope plate Boundary Observatory & UNAVCO [pptx] [pdf]
• Are the tectonic plates really moving? What else is moving? How to identify type of plate motion by seismic and GPS data
  • Demonstration: How GPS works: Part I of Measuring plate motion with GPS: Iceland
  • Evidence of plate tectonics from GPS data
  • How to identify type of plate motion by GPS data: Part 4 of Visualizing Relations with Data: Western US.
  • PBO-52 Playing Cards - each card features GPS stations from the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory and shows ground motion at each site. Together the motions of various regions of the US can be observed.
  • Map of the midwest United States showing plate motion using data from GPS sites of the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory and other networks using IGS008 Reference frame
    

Relevant workshop resources with geodetic content: 2015 CEETEP Workshops

• GPS and Earthquake Early Warning [youtube]
  
• What can GPS tell us about future earthquakes? [youtube]
  
• Beauty and the Beast: Plate Tectonics and Geological Hazards of the Pacific Northwest
• Basics of Earthquake and Tsunami Science and Hazards and Related Teaching Activities[pdf]
• Cascadia Earthquakes and Tsunami and Related Teaching Activities [pdf]
• World Map of Plate Boundaries and Activity[pdf]
• Pacific Northwest Tectonic Block Model[pdf]
• Activity—Cascadia GPS (gumdrop GPS)[pdf]
• Advanced GPS Activity—Locked & Loading [pdf]: Using Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) data to determine elastic compression of the Pacific Northwest Active Continental Margin.[pdf]
• Activity—ETS (Episodic Tremor & Slip) [pdf]
• Local GPS cards illustrating the change of position over time for Quillayut , WA and Aberdeen, Washington, Goldendale, Washington, Astoria, Oregon , Newport, Oregon, Cape Meares, Oregon , Corvallis, Oregon [pdf]
• Relevant Next Generation Science Standards[pdf]