Earth and Space Science Technological Education Project (ESSTEP) Celebrating the life of Dorothy LaLonde Stout Session T135 – Improving Delivery in Geoscience Education (IDIG) Geological Society of America Annual Meeting November 7, 2004, Denver, Colorado Presented by Carole L. Ziegler Southwestern College Chula Vista, California

§Funded by National Science Foundation §Administered by Geological Society of America §Dottie Stout served as a principal investigator workshop host instructor inspirational mentor

Project Leaders §Edward E. Geary, Principal Investigator §Dorothy L. Stout, Co-Principal Investigator §Paul B. Dusenbery, Co-Principal Investigator §Bryan Aivazian, Lead Instructor §Holly Devaul, Principal Investigator transfer in January 2000.

Partners §Cypress College §Boulder High School §SSI §College of William and Mary §ESRI

Collaborators and Contacts §Center for Image Processing in Education §UNAVCO-University NAVSTAR Consortium §United States Geological Survey §SRI, International – Tappedin §Colorado School of Mines §NASA Goddard SFC/Scientific and Educational Endeavors §Trimble

The Project §Introduce technologies used in the study of Earth, Space and the Environmental Sciences in order to enhance classroom teaching and engage the student in the process of learning science. §Cross-level teams of secondary and college faculty (grades 8-16) §Three cohorts starting in 1997 with a total of 125 participants from 25 states. §Met for two weeks the first year and one week the second year.

The First Year §Two weeks §Intense training in various technologies §Seminars addressing issues associated with teaching the various technologies: ex. Fear Factor! addressed §Development of curriculum to take back to the classroom §Field trips

Benefits §Informed about classroom activities that already existed on the Internet or were available for use on computer systems §Networking with people with similar interests in educating our students §Initiated further study

Please turn your head sideways to view! Introduction to Digital Photography

Activities §Introduction to Power Point §Practice in Using the Internet §Developing Web based Classroom Curriculum

Virtual Labs on the Internet §Developed by Gary Novak at Cal State Los Angeles

Global Positioning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Student Benefits

The Second Year §Two cohorts brought together for one week More training Sharing of curriculum developed Assessing the outcome of the impact on teaching students in the sciences Field trips

Field Trips §San Andreas Fault System §UNAVCO – Global Positioning Systems §California Institute of Technology §ESRI §Others

Dottie in the Field with ESSTEP

ESSTEP Continues On §Increased use of technology in the classroom §Participants continue to network through a List Serv §Share information with new people §Ongoing research projects that were implemented (one cohort was awarded grant monies of $796,000 directly or indirectly related to ESSTEP) §Loan of equipment

Personal Acknowledgements §Holly Devaul §Ed Geary §Hugh Ellis, University of San Diego §John Kramer, Trimble §Ann Johnson, ESRI