TESEP Professional Development Workshop Series in Earth and Environmental Science – Maryborough Vic

Earth-Expo 3-PD – (with Casual Relief Funding) Mon 26 Aug 2024, Maryborough

Part 1 – Rocks (the Rock Kit Teaching Pack & Plate Tectonics story), yr 4-9 

Vic curriculum VCSSU100, 115,116,122,127,089

Critical Minerals (renewable energy/electric car/batteries/recycling), yr 6-12

(physics/chemistry crossover) Vic curriculum VCSSU100 and VCSSU089

Part 2 – Energy, Sustainability & the Energy Transition – all energy types compared, different Paths to Net Zero compared (latest statistics, plans) (STEM/physics/chemistry crossover, re year 9-12)

– with classroom-ready Powerpoints, short videos, weblinks

Vic curriculum VCSSU100, 115,116,122,127,089

School: Highview College, 21 Kars St, Maryborough Vic

Meeting Room: attendees to go to the front desk to be directed to Meeting Room

Date: Monday 26 August 2024, PD 3:25pm – 6:15pm 

School Facilitators: Andrea Youren (includes a light supper) 

1. PD workshops – After-school professional development workshops for teachers (Part 1 & 2, 3-PD @ $50 & Part 2, 1-PD @$25/attendee for visiting teachers, FREE to host-school teachers).

2. Certificate of attendance – A certificate of hours and workshop outcomes will be issued. 

3. FREE rock kit – Host to receive a FREE rock kit and Plate Tectonics poster.

5. Introductory RocksExpo feature How to Use the Rock Kit and Teaching Pack (e.g. how to relate rock kit rocks to rock stories, 3D rendered samples, virtual thin sections and virtual outcrops). 

Presenters: Rod Boucher is an experienced central Vic educator/industry geologist with years of local geology and STEM/EES Science curriculum knowledge.

Download registration form here.