Iowa's Environmental Resources for Teachers - Spring/Summer 2025
The course, workshop and curricula
Syllabus - Spring/Summer 2025
Content presentations - The following links should take you to our recorded content sessions. If you can participate live log in to the provided Zoom link shortly before 4pm each presentation Tuesday. These will be posted within about 24hrs. Session lengths will very and will not go past 5:50.
Session 1 (March 11, 2025) Iowa's Geologic, Enivronmental and Geochemical History: Part 1 in person Recording Part 2 - Finishing our Landform Regions, Slide deck 1, Homework #1 due Friday, March 21. Homework links: A.IGS Publications, B. IGS GeoLab
Reference links for Session 1: A. Iowa Geological Survey, B. United States Geological Survey , C. Iowa Science Phenomena C. Natural Resources Conservation Service - Soil
Session 2 (March 25, 2025): Iowa's Environmental Resources - Rock and Energy, Slide Deck #2. Part 1 In person Recording , Part 2 - X-ray Diffraction (XRD) background, Homework #2, Due Friday April 4. Homework links - NY Times article - Minnesota - A Tale of Two Economies
Session 3 (April 8, 2025):
Summer workshop - June 23-26
Resources
Carleton College, Science Education Research Center, Minnesota - SERC
International Commission on Stratigraphy