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Visits to Classrooms

Grade
Description
Leader Material Date

high school

Periodic Table in Everyday Life (More...) Jamshid Hassanzadeh   Jan 22, 2011;
Nov 5, 2010

8

Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics (Newspaper article | More...) Erin Burkett   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
  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   Apr 9, 2013

6

Mountain Building and Plate Tectonics
Holy Redeemer, Montrose
Teacher: Beth Cohen
Katie Snell
Janet Harvey
  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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