10:30 – 11:00

Welcome, introductions, What we’re doing today, things to think about (integrating activities into teaching)

Introduction to UNAVCO & EarthScope

New Discoveries in Science from using GPS Data

11:00 – 12:00

Using Visualization Tools to Explore Data: Visualizing relationships between earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate boundaries using EarthScope Jr.

http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/regionalplatemotion/

12:00 – 12:45

Lunch

12:45 - 1:00

Tectonics from the Top: Tectonic plates float, Spreading apart, colliding--Reconstructing Earth

1:00 – 1:30

How Does GPS work /Applications of GPS continued

1:30 – 2:00

Introduction to Reading GPS Time Series Plots

http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/readingGPStimeseries/

2:00 – 3:00

Activity: Exploring Plate Motion and Deformation in California Using GPS Time Series Plots

http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/sanandreas

3:00 – 3:15

break

3:15 – 4:30

Accessing & Exploring GPS Data: Using GPS to Visualize Plate Tectonics in the Pacific Northwest

http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/platesubduction/

4:30 – 5:00

What’s happening here? A quick look around the world

5:00 – 5:45

The Role of Water in Breaking Apart Continents

5:45 – 6:00

UNAVCO wrap-up and summary

Strategies for integrating modern research into your teaching: Develop individual plans.

6:00 – 6:30

Evaluation matters (may move this to the next morning, depending on time constraints and the ESI web cast)

7:00 – 8:00

Optional:
God, Darwin, and Design: Lessons
from the Dover Monkey Trial

Exploring Plate Tectonics Using GPS Data (SC-8)

NSTA 2008 Conference

12:30 – 12:45

Welcome, introductions

Icebreaker warm up

Course Overview

Outcome: Learn about other participants, workshop objectives, and logistics

12:45 – 1:10

Overview of UNAVCO and EarthScope

New Discoveries in Science from using GPS Data [ppt: 15mb file]

Outcome: To increase participants’ understanding of UNAVCO and EarthScope as a resource, what is GPS works, and the contributions GPS data make to plate tectonic research and new scientific discoveries

12:45 – 1:10

Questions/ Answers
 

1:15 – 2:15

Demonstration and Activity: Using Visualization Tools to Explore Data: Visualizing relationships between earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate boundaries using EarthScope Jr..
http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/regionalplatemotion/

Outcome: Describe how the locations of earthquakes, volcanoes, and GPS velocity vectors provide evidence for plate tectonics
 

Break

2:25 – 2:55

How Does GPS work

Outcome: Create plate velocity vectors to illustrate plate motions and describe plate rebound after an earthquake

Questions / Answers

Activities to Explore GPS data through Time Series Plots:

Activity: Introduction to Reading Time Series Plots
http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/readingGPStimeseries/

• Instructor Presentation
• Activity worksheet
• Tenths of a year to Months of a year scale

Activity: Exploring Plate Motion and Deformation in California Using GPS Time Series Plots
http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/sanandreas

• Instructor Presentation
• Lesson Plan
• Activity Worksheet

Outcome: Create plate velocity vectors to illustrate plate motions and describe plate rebound after an earthquake

Walkthrough: Accessing & Exploring GPS Data: Using GPS to Visualize Plate Tectonics in the Pacific Northwest
http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/platesubduction/

Outcome:  Download GPS data from UNAVCO, create time series plots, and analyze resulting vectors

4:00 – 4:10

Strategies for integrating modern research into your teaching: Develop individual plans

4:10 – 4:20

What’s happening here? A quick look around the world

4:20 – 4:30

Wrap-up (quick exit survey)

This short course provides educators with lessons and activities that integrate new scientific discoveries related to crustal deformation due to the movement of tectonic plates associated with earthquakes, deformation of volcanoes, and other applications such as glacier and ice sheet movement based on high-precision GPS. Participants use current GPS data to discover how specific locations of the Earth are moving in relation to each other and how this relates to plate motion. The materials will be presented through demonstrations and hands-on activities which teachers can implement in their classrooms. UNAVCO is a non-profit, membership-governed consortium funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. As a member of the EarthScope project, UNAVCO is developing free instructional materials provide secondary-level educators with concrete, problem-based methods to teach their students how Earth scientists measure crustal deformation using GPS and how these measurements are important to hazard prediction and infrastructure. In addition, the materials will draw attention to new discoveries yielded by high-precision GPS and provide students with case studies highlighting the scientific process.

Links to presentations and classroom activities

Agenda (in pdf format)

Introduction to GPS

Lesson: Exploring Plate Motion and Deformation Using GPS Time Series Plots
There are two activities for this lesson:

Activity: Introduction to Reading Time Series Plots
http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/readingGPStimeseries/

• Instructor Presentation
• Activity worksheet
• Tenths of a year to Months of a year scale

Activity: Exploring Plate Motion and Deformation in California Using GPS Time Series Plots
http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/sanandreas

• Instructor Presentation
• Lesson Plan
• Activity Worksheet

Through computer-based, hands-on, and kinesthetic exercises, join us in exploring how to make plate tectonics come alive for students.

Using real high-precision GPS data and data exploration tools such as EarthScope Voyager and Jules Vern Voyager Jr., learn some of the techniques that scientists utilize to study the movement of tectonic plates, how the plates deform during and after earthquakes, and other motions such as volcanic deformation and glacial movement. We'll provide activities you can use in your classrooms to supplement your plate tectonic curriculum.

Links to presentations and classroom activities for today's workshop

Agenda

Introduction to GPS

Lesson: Using GPS Data to Visualize Plate Tectonics
There are two activities for this lesson:

Visualizing Relationships between Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Plate Boundaries in the Western U.S. Using the EarthScope Jr. Data Tool
http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/regionalplatemotion/

• Computer instructions
• Student worksheet - using GPS data to visualize plate tectonics
  
• Map packet
  
• Instructor Guide (Using GPS data to visualize plate tectonics)
• EarthScope Voyager Map Tool: http://jules.unavco.org/VoyagerJr/EarthScope

Using GPS to Visualize Plate Tectonics in the Pacific Northwest
http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/platesubduction/

• Computer instructions
• Student worksheet - using GPS data to visualize plate tectonics
  
• Map packet
  
• Instructor Guide (Using GPS data to visualize plate tectonics)

Lesson: Exploring Plate Motion and Deformation Using GPS Time Series Plots
There are two activities for this lesson:

Activity: Introduction to Reading Time Series Plots
http://www.unavco.org:8080/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/readingGPStimeseries/

• Instructor Presentation
• Activity worksheet
• Tenths of a year to Months of a year scale

Activity: Exploring Plate Motion and Deformation in California Using GPS Time Series Plots
http://www.unavco.org/cws/pbonucleus/draftresources/sanandreas

• Instructor Presentation
• Lesson Plan
• Activity Worksheet