Online toolkit, open house for Earth Science Week

 

POSTED ON Oct 19, 2018

 

For the first time ever, the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) offered an online Earth Science Week toolkit to celebrate Earth Science Week (October 14-20). The 2018 theme is “Earth as Inspiration.”

“As a digital complement to our popular Earth Science Week Toolkit, which annually ships to 14,000 teachers and geoscientists, the Online Toolkit provides a curated selection of materials from Earth Science Week Toolkits past and present, ” an AGI statement said.

The kit offers classroom activities, posters, and calendars. Available through the Earth Science Week website, the online kit allows users to filter activities by Earth Science Week theme, disciplinary core idea, and even language.

Reaching over 50 million people annually, Earth Science Week has been led by AGI in cooperation with its sponsors and the geoscience community since 1998.

To mark Earth Science Week, Texas A&M University-Kingsville geosciences program announced a host of activities from Sunday, Oct. 14, through Saturday, Oct. 20.

This is the sixth year the geosciences program has held activities for the campus and the community, the university said in its press release.

A Geoscience Open House featured GIS, paleontology, mineralogy and petrology, field geography and geophysics demonstrations.

Personal collections of the faculty, including meteorites, minerals, and fossils were also on display.

A public lecture by a professor of geology at Texas A&M-Kingsville gave an update and review of the 2018 Hawaiian Volcanic Eruptions.

Texas A&M University-Kingsville’s Geoscience program expects to highlight the work of the department, the announcement said.

Founded in October 1998, Earth Science Week is the American Geosciences Institute’s national and international effort to help the public gain a better understanding and appreciation for the earth sciences and to encourage stewardship of the Earth.