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Geoscience for Educators, Grades 3-8

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Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences

NJ DOE Provider # 981, and an NJ SSI Specialty Site

Come join us at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, for geoscience instruction by highly qualified and experienced teachers on such topics as minerals, rocks, mining, resource use, resource management, and more. All of our workshops are targeted at New Jersey State Science Standards and are designed to allow teachers to implement content material within their existing programs. Teachers will be given hands-on instruction and will take home with them materials that include numerous student activities and ideas for more effective classroom instruction.

In addition to the workshops listed below and described on the next page, our scientists can visit your school for in-class presentations and activities, work with you on customized tours of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, and help you with your curriculum needs.  For more information please contact us at shmm@ptd.net.

Schedule of Events:

July 10, 2007: Introduction to Sterling Hill Mine (6 hours)

July 12, 2007:   Introduction to Paleontology (6 hours)

July 17, 2007: Minerals, an Intensive Overview (6 hours)

July 18, 2007: Minerals and Rocks (6 hours)

More information on next page

Please complete registration form and send via e-mail to:

Teresa Crerand

Professional Development Administrator

tcrerand@ptd.net

570-686-7611

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NJ DOE Provider # 981

Earth Science for Educators

All of the workshops listed below will be held at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, 30 Plant St., Ogdensburg, NJ  07439.  Workshops begin at 9 AM and end at 3:30 PM.  Attendees should bring their own lunch, but we have a snack bar on premises for coffee, tea, soft drinks, candies, ice cream, etc.  Hot foods are limited to personal pizzas, hot dogs, corn dogs, and pasties (a traditional Cornish miners' lunch). 

Introduction to Sterling Hill Mining Museum (6 hours)    $40

In addition to the mine itself, the Sterling Hill Mining Museum features both indoor and outdoor exhibits on many facets of mining and the uses of mined materials in society. Attendees will spend much of the morning in the mine and will concentrate on three subjects:  the geology of the mine, safety practices that were employed while the mine was active, and the use of physics in developing an efficient mining process. During the afternoon we will tour the grounds outdoors, where large pieces of mining and milling equipment are on view. The day concludes in the Zobel Exhibit Hall, where more than 20,000 objects related to mining are displayed. The focus throughout is to learn how to use this former industrial site as a student resource. 

Introduction to Paleontology (6 hours)    $40  (plus purchase of field book)ttendees to this workshop will be introduced to the Paleontology, the study of ancient life. This will include a review of what defines a fossil, along with key terms and concepts used by paleontologists.  Next a look at the major biological groups of organisms, including dinosaurs, will be presented as they pertain to paleontology.  The use of dinosaurs as an interest hook for students to science, English and math will be discussed, including strategies of how to help a student who may already know more than the teacher does about the subject matter.  A review of classroom exercises and potential class field trips for the New Jersey metropolitan area will be presented to the attendees.  Pending time, a group discussion of how to teach evolution and geologic time will close the class.

 Minerals-an Intensive Overview (6 hours)    $40

This workshop is designed to "hook" students by featuring minerals as objects of fascination rather than simply as components of rocks. Attendees will construct a compass from a natural mineral, see how nature created fiber-optic materials long before they were made in a laboratory, learn why diamonds are called "ice" among jewel thieves, and experience minerals that produce double vision without alcohol. By the time attendees complete this workshop they will have a thorough grounding in the properties of minerals and how those properties are related to one another. Numerous hands-on classroom activities will be demonstrated.

Rocks and Minerals (6 hours)    $40

Attendees to this workshop will be introduced to the Rock Discovery Center at Sterling Hill, which is designed to introduce students to the many uses of bulk rock in our society and features rock quarried in the tri-state area of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Next, teachers will learn how to use the New Jersey Rocks and Sediments kit with their students as an introduction to the geology of our state. Finally, attendees will learn about the fluorescence of minerals, the many uses of fluorescence and ultraviolet light in our everyday lives, and will take an extended tour of the Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence.

Questions?  Need more information? 

Contact Dr. Earl Verbeek at:  Sterling Hill Mining Museum, 973-209-7212

E-mail:  shmm@ptd.net

Also see our web sites at www.sterlinghill.org and www.sterlinghill.org/warren

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