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Helping with option choices
Advertising AS and A2 courses to students
Ben Church has produced a Powerpoint presentation to help to advertise AS and A2 courses to GCSE students making their advanced level choices. The first four frames can be downloaded from here(1MB). The full presentation is available on the Geotrex website for ESTA members. Membership information can be obtained from here.
Earth Science Education Unit Progress
ESEU’s Annual Report to its Steering Committee is
prepared for January, based on figures up to September the
previous year.
Since this data is not available for this report to ESTA,
the figures below are the best that are available to date.
We say to enquirers that ESEU has three major sponsors:
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Oil and Gas UK – providers of the funding and business
expertise ·
Keele University – providers of office space, facilities and
financial management ·
ESTA – providers of teaching materials
Since 1999, when ESEU received its first funding, the following progress has been made, as reported in the 2008 Annual Report:
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The figures provided in the update below for the
academic year of 2008/2009 are incomplete. Final figures
will be submitted by the end of August, will be logged
sometime later and will appear in the 2009 Annual Report to
be published in January 2010.
Many thanks to the ESEU Office Staff, Bernadette Callan
(ESEU Manager) and Hazel Benson and Michéle Bourne (ESEU
Administrators) for collating these figures and also for
their very effective efforts for ESEU.
ESEU is currently working on the following new initiatives:
● The preparation of three ‘Earth Physics’ workshops, for
presentation to physics teachers in secondary schools, with
the support of the Institute of Physics
● The development of three new ‘Curriculum for Excellence’
workshops for the new Scottish curriculum, one for early
years, one for upper primary and one for secondary.
Chris King, ESEU Director,18th August 2009.
Geology Examination Entry Statistics 1971 - 2008
Please hover over each category to see the graph.
A complete set of graphs can be obtained here
Earthlearningidea
The year of 2008 is the International Year of Planet Earth and a major focus of the year is intended to be outreach and education. Unfortunately, the funding that was supposed to come available to support these activities has not appeared. As a result, three ESTA members, Elizabeth Devon, Peter Kennett and Chris King have decided to work together to publish a new activity on the internet every week during 2008 (and one per month from September to December 2007). Each activity is designed to be used in classrooms with minimal resources and to encourage interactive teaching and the development of investigational and thinking skills in pupils. This is being done with no funding, using voluntary effort.
A key aspect of Earthlearningidea is to encourage internet discussion across the globe around each activity using a blog. To be successful, Earthlearningidea needs to reach as many people across the world as possible, so the Earthlearningidea Team is seeking the contact details of those involved in Earth science, science and geography teaching across the world (*Country *Name *Email address *Institution name) to alert them to Earthlearningidea. It is also seeking the moral support and active blogging support of all ESTA members. More details, a sample activity and the September 2007 activity can be found on the website at: http://www.earthlearningidea.com. Comments through the blog on these activities and the whole Earthlearningidea are welcome, now and in the future.
Chris King, August 2007
Earth Science Teachers' AssociationSecondary Education
