TeacherTECH Science Series-Understanding Climate Change: Standards-Based Web Resources for the Classroom

Elementary School, Middle School
, High School and Community College educators are invited to attend our March TeacherTECH Technology Tools Series focused on
 teaching the global effects of climate change aligned to state standards. 

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

4:30pm - 6:30pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Auditorium

University of California, San Diego

Workshop Description

Climate change seem infinitely complex?  Learn the basics and teach confidently.  Community college instructor and educational media producer Memorie Yasuda introduces core topics related to California Science standards for grades 9-12 - global energy budget and biogeochemical cycles; and grades 5-8 - atmosphere,  water cycle, weather, climate, heat, Earth's orbit, and electromagnetic radiation.

Join us to analyze web-based resources that can be used in the classroom.  Learn what it means to be a "greenhouse" gas.  Find out about the energy that warms the Earth’s surface.  Explore the links between people, fossils and climate change  and find out why it’s a problem.  Learn about proposed solutions, how they relate to you, and about the opportunities and decisions your students will encounter.  Workshop will be hands-on and discussion-based with ample time for questions and answer. 

Please join us for an exciting and informative session of hands-on learning presented by Memorie Yasuda, University of California, San Diego.

About Memorie Yasuda

Memorie Yasuda has been the web-based educational media developer for Earthguide, http://earthguide.ucsd.edu, since 2000.  Earthguide is part of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and has been dedicated to producing research-based online educational materials for K-14 students, teachers, and the public. Memorie manages a team of creative and enthusiastic UCSD undergraduate interns who support this work. 

She is also an adjunct instructor of Oceanography at Grossmont College in El Cajon, CA and has taught Oceanography and Physical Geology at regional community colleges for the last 20 years.  She has an M.S. degree in Geology from the University of Southern Californiawhere her research involved using microfossils in marine sediments to determine aspects of ocean history. 

Please note that this workshop will be recorded for broadcast by UCSD-TV for nationwide distribution. All attendees will be asked to complete a UCSD Media Release Form.

Registration is free. Refreshments will be served. Space is 
limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or
 amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.


For additional information on other TeacherTECH programs, please visit http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech