paleonet GSA poster session- teaching about rates, dates, geologic time

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I'm posting this message on behalf of Heather Macdonald (rhmacd@wm.edu)....

>From: Heather Macdonald <rhmacd@wm.edu>
>Subject: GSA poster session-  teaching about rates, dates, geologic time
>
>Hello,
>
>Please consider submitting an abstract for the On the Cutting Edge 
>illustrated community discussion poster session on It's About Time: 
>Teaching the Temporal Aspects of Geoscience (Topical session #104) at the 
>2005 GSA Annual Meeting.
>
>The deadline is July 12.
>http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005AM/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=16007
>
>The one-abstract rule has been waived for this poster session (details at 
>the end) and we have room for a large number of posters.
>
>This session calls for discipline-wide reflection to share and discuss the 
>variety of ways to enhance student understanding of all aspects of 
>geologic time and its measurement (K-16, informal education, graduate 
>education)
>
>We encourage posters presenting a specific technique, approach, 
>assignment, or lab as well as those addressing more general concepts 
>associated with deep time and understanding rates.  Possibilities include 
>(but are not limited to)
>
>*  approaches for bringing cutting edge geochronologic research into the 
>classroom
>* specific assignments, labs, problem sets, or other activities that 
>address how geoscientists determine dates and rates using paleontology, 
>radiometric dating, relative proxy data, and/or other dating techniques,
>*  strategies and challenges for teaching about recurrence intervals, 
>predictions, probabilistic/stochastic events, and related themes
>*  teaching with a temporal theme,
>*  research on learning about time.
>
>This session is sponsored by the National Association of Geoscience 
>Teachers; GSA Geoscience Education Division; and CHRONOS
>
>Conveners: R. Heather Macdonald, David W. Mogk, Barbara J. Tewksbury, 
>Cathryn A. Manduca.
>
>The contributions to this session will be preserved in an on-line 
>searchable collection designed to foster continued sharing and 
>interaction. The session is scheduled for Sunday evening overlapping with 
>the opening reception, and adjacent to the exhibition hall.  We will ask 
>each contributor to use a common poster format and complete a submission 
>form on our website (details TBA) as well as submitting an abstract to GSA.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Heather
>
>*******************************
>Heather Macdonald
>Department of Geology
>College of William and Mary
>757-221-2443
>fax: 757-221-2093
>rhmacd@wm.edu
>
>Mail Address:
>P.O. Box 8795
>Williamsburg, VA  23187-8795
>
>UPS or FedEx Address
>McGlothlin-Street Hall Room 227
>Williamsburg, VA  23185
>
>
>*******************************
>Heather Macdonald
>Department of Geology
>College of William and Mary
>757-221-2443
>fax: 757-221-2093
>rhmacd@wm.edu
>
>Mail Address:
>P.O. Box 8795
>Williamsburg, VA  23187-8795
>
>UPS or FedEx Address
>McGlothlin-Street Hall Room 227
>Williamsburg, VA  23185

Regular mailing address:
Rowan Lockwood
Department of Geology
The College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

Fed Ex mailing address: Dept. of Geology, The College of William and Mary, 
McGlothlin-Street Hall Rm 226, Williamsburg, VA 23185

Phone: 757/221-2878, Fax: 757/221-2093, Email: rxlock@wm.edu