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Visits to Classrooms
Grade |
Description
|
Leader |
Material |
Date |
high school |
Periodic Table in Everyday Life (More...) |
Jamshid Hassanzadeh |
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Jan 22, 2011; Nov 5, 2010 |
8 |
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics (Newspaper article | More...) |
Erin Burkett |
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Dec 22, 2010 |
7, 8 |
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics (More...) |
Sylvain Barbot |
Earthquake Machine*
Seis Mac
Poster: This Dynamic Planet*
|
May 12, 2010 |
4,5,7 |
What Geologists Do, a visit to 4th, 5th, and 7th grade classes at school in Torrance for Career Day |
Steve Skinner |
Earthquake machine coupled with seismometer SeisMac
|
Feb 2, 2010 |
7 |
Fossils and the Age of the Earth
Holy Redeemer, Montrose
Teacher: Beth Cohen
|
Janet Harvey
Katie Snell |
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Feb 7, 2013 |
6 |
Rock my World: The Power of Volcanoes (More...)
Washington Middle School
Teacher: Darlene Davenport
|
Kirsten Siebach |
|
Apr 19, 2013 |
6 |
Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
Eliot Middle School
Teacher: Stephen Crosby
|
Erika Swanson |
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Apr 9, 2013 |
6 |
Mountain Building and Plate Tectonics
Holy Redeemer, Montrose
Teacher: Beth Cohen
|
Katie Snell
Janet Harvey |
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Feb 7, 2013 |
6 |
Helping with Science Fair Projects
Blair Middle School, PUSD
Teacher: Ms Serrano (More...)
|
Luca Malatesta
Renata Cummins
Steve Skinner
Caj Neubauer |
|
Jan 9, 2012 |
6 |
Pangaea
Washington Middle School, PUSD
visited four classes
Teachers: Darlene Davenport, Jacqueline Equite (More...)
|
Belle Philibosian |
USGS Pangaea puzzle |
Oct 25, Nov 15, 2012 |
6 |
Reading the Rock Record
Hughes Middle School, Long Beach
Teacher: Ms. Van Divort (More...)
|
Ajay Limaye |
Cookies! |
May 24, 2012 |
6 |
How Paleomagnetics in Antarctica is used to determine past locations of continents
Washington Middle School
Teacher: Jacqueline Equite
|
Steve Skinner |
fossils |
May 9, 2012 |
6 |
Earthquake Faults - hands-on activity using legos to demonstrate Wallace Creek. Darlene Davenport’s class at Washington Middle School. (More...)
|
Luca Malatesta |
legos, playdoh, sandbox |
May 9, 2012 |
6 |
Deformation and Mountain Building using legos, playdoh, and a sandbox Blair Middle School, 41 students, Teacher: Ms Bernabe
|
Kristel Chanard, Steve Skinner, Philippe Solans |
legos, playdoh, sandbox |
April 26, 2012 |
6 |
Reading the Rock Record |
Ajay Limaye |
|
Mar 26, 2012 |
6 |
Mountain building and plate tectonics |
Katie Snell, Luca Malatesta |
play dough, fossils |
Jan 13, 2012 |
6 |
Research at Caltech (More...) |
Belle Philibosian |
Earthquake machine,
Slinky |
May 19, 2011 |
6 |
Research at Caltech (More...) |
Steve Kidder |
Earthquake machine,
Silly putty, Rocks |
May 19, 2011 |
6 |
Earthquakes |
Willy Amidon |
Slides
|
Feb 9, 2010 |
6 |
Mountain building and volcanoes
(Caltech Today article) |
Thomas Ader, Kristel Chanard, Marion Thomas |
Slides
|
Feb 4, 2010 |
6 |
Evidence Leading up to Plate Tectonics |
Michelle Selvans |
Figures
Poster: This Dynamic Planet *
|
Jan 22, 2010 |
5 |
Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Sumatra |
Anthony Sladen |
Slides - see Anthony
Earthquake machine*
|
May 15, 2009 |
4 |
Determining the location and size of an earthquake Walt Disney Elementary, Burbank USD
Teacher Dillon Ross
|
Jennifer Buz |
description |
Dec 7, 2012 |
4 |
What makes Mountains? Larchmont Charter School, LAUSD
Teacher Eva Orozco
|
Ajay Limaye |
|
Nov 6, 2012 |
4 |
Erosion and Weathering
Washington Elementary School, PUSD
|
Nina Lin
Ajay Limaye |
Slides
Movies |
Apr 22, 2011 |
4 |
Earthquake and mountain building
Temple Academy, La Puente USD
|
Sylvan Barbot
Kristel Chanard |
Earthquake machine*
Poster: This Dynamic Planet
Questions |
Jun 1, 2010 |
4 |
Erosion and weathering |
Willy Amidon |
Slides
Activity sheet
|
Apr 20, 2010 Mar 23/24, 2009 |
K-3 |
Field work in Antarctica |
Steve Skinner |
Fossils |
June 10, 2013 |
2 |
Rocks, minerals, and the life of a Geology grad student |
Steve Kidder |
Rocks
Geology hammer |
Mar 26, 2010 |
* in 303 N Mudd |
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