K-12 Educational Outreach

MISCELLANEOUS FIELD TRIPS AND TEACHING EXERCISES

INVOLVING LOCAL K-12 SCHOOLS

2005    --Reach for the Stars:  Designed middle school astronomy activity and assessment examination for Science Olympics, March 5

2004    --Geology of the eastern San Gabriel Mountains  Field Trip for for Mt. Baldy Environmental Education Center, attended by community residents and US Forest Service personnel, July 17

            --Reach for the Stars:  Designed middle school astronomy activities and assessment examination for Science Olympics, March 6 and May 1

2003    --Earth’s valuable minerals: presentation for Pomona Unified School District Science Fair, March 15

            --Astronomy show: presentation for Pomona Unified School District Science Fair, March 15

2001:  Earth Science Learning Centers: series of  “hands-on” activities and lessons presented by my SCI 212 class to sixth grade students at Alta Loma Elementary School, May 4 and 11.

           Geology and hydrology of Icehouse Canyon:  Field excursions for sixth grade students at Chapman Ranch     School, April 17 and 19.

Science teacher training session on “The Solar System":  Science Advisor for Hacienta-La Puente School District, December 12

2000-2001:  Practical Earth science and mathematics exercises:  series of half-day lessons presented to sixth grade students at Alta Loma Elementary school, September 15, October 3, December 19, December 22, February 13, April 3

2000:  Science teacher training session on “Minerals":  Science Advisor for Hacienta-La Puente School District, August 30

            Classroom simulation of precipitation, infiltration, and runoff: CEEMAST presentation, April 29

            Earth’s valuable minerals: CEEMAST presentation, April 29

            Science Teacher Training session on “Sounds”: Science Advisor for Hacienda-La Puente School District, March 29  

1999:  Observation and classification of igneous and metamorphic rocks along San Antonio Creek, Field trip run for grades 6-8 at Mt. Baldy School, December 7.

            Classroom identification of minerals, CEEMAST exercise for secondary school teachers of the Pomona/San Gabriel Valley area

            Earth’s Active Volcanoes: Global distribution, classification, and human impacts, CEEMAST exercise for secondary school teachers of the Pomona/San Gabriel Valley area

1998: How much water? Practical clasroom measurement of rainfall, stream flow, and evaporation, CEEMAST exercise for secondary school teachers of the Pomona/San Gabriel Valley area

1997:  Cycles of uplift, erosion, and sedimentation recorded in the hills on the Cal Poly Pomona campus: CEEMAST field trip for secondary school teachers of the Pomona/San Gabriel Valley area

1997:  Hydrology and geology of San Antonio Canyon:  a series of five field exercises conducted for Ganesha High School science students

1995:  Special minerals and rocks exposed in Cow Canyon landslide, Mt. Baldy area, Field trip run for grades 3-5 at Mt. Baldy School, November 7.

1995:  Hydrogeology of Icehouse Canyon, eastern San Gabriel Mountains, field trip run  for grades 6-8 at Mt. Baldy School, October 24.

1995:  Rand Mountains-Southern Sierra Nevada-Tehachapi Mountains: A geologic field excursion for the Tehachapi Penrose conference, run with coleaders Lee Silver, Carl Jacobson, and David Wood, October 10.

1995:  Faults, landslides , floods of San Antonio and Icehouse canyons, San Gabriel Mountains:  Field trip conducted with Larry Herber for secondary science teachers of the Pomona/ San Gabriel Valley area, December 9

1991-1995:      Active uplift and erosion of the San Gabriel Mountains, series of lectures and field trips with separate groups of elementary students, Mount Baldy and Azusa School Districts

1991:  Geology of the Magdalena area, Sonora, Mexico,  Field trip conducted for the Cal Poly Pomona Geology Club