Registered charity number 1005331 Supporting the teaching of Earth sciences at all levels British Geological Survey - new on-line resource                                                                                                          The BGS's new on-line resource Open Geoscience is now available. bringing together existing resources with new items inclding photographs can that be downloaded free for educational use. The address is: www.bgs.ac.uk/opengeoscience/ ADVERTS World News Headlines                                                                                                                                                                                   The Aerial Reconnaisance Archives                                                                                                                                Initally there will be about 4000 images in this archive, but more will be added later. The archive can be viewed at: http://aerial.rcahms.gov.uk/ In Service Training Workshop for secondary school teachers in Italy In Service Training Workshop for secondary school teachers SEISMOLOGY@SCHOOL (Naples, Italy, June 4-8, 2012) Scientists and education experts from Italy, France, Switzerland and the UK have put together and in-service training workshop aimed at secondary school teachers of sciences or geosciences who are interested in finding out how to use seismology in their own classrooms as a “hook” to get students interested in a wide range of science topics and as a socially relevant context for seeing how the work of scientists impacts everyday lives. The workshop will run over five days in Naples, Italy and will include lectures, practical sessions and field visits to local volcanoes. Teachers attending the course from the EU or associated states would expect to obtain full funding for all travel, accommodation, food, and course costs from the EU COMENIUS funding programme. Further details ... http://www.nera-eu.org/content/mm_files/do_819/2011_12_Training%20Course%20June2012.pdf   THE DEADLINE FOR FUNDING APPLICATIONS WILL BE 16th JANUARY 2012   Teachers from the UK apply directly to the British Council for funding once they have secured an offer of a place on the course.  The success rate for teachers obtaining funding is over 90% http://www.britishcouncil.org/comenius-how-to-apply.htm   If you have any queries please contact       Paul Denton UK school seismology project leader British Geological Survey Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG email pdenton@bgs.ac.uk web  www.bgs.ac.uk/ssp