Attention all AAPG Affiliated
Sections and Societies
November 1 Deadline
Make your nominations today!
For more information:
Laura Zahm
(512) 219-0241
Email
: laura.c.zahm@conocophillips.com
Youth Educational Activities Subcommittee:
The person above serves as chair for this subcommittee of the Youth Educational Activities Committee and has agreed to spearhead the national selection process. She will be willing to answer questions, field suggestions, and help out.
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Call for Nominations
Earth Science Teacher Award
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| The American
Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the AAPG Foundation, will award
$5,000 at the April 2008 AAPG Annual Convention in San Antonio, Texas to an individual
teacher for Excellence
in the Teaching of Natural Resources in the Earth Sciences. The award will include $2,500 for use under the teacher’s supervision
for educational purposes and $2,500 for personal use by the teacher. Also
included will be an expense paid trip to the San Antonio convention to receive
the award. Local and regional selection of candidates will be made by AAPG’s
affiliated Societies and Sections.
Requirements:
- Minimum
of three years full-time teaching experience at any level K-12.
- Teaching at
least one unit per year on natural resources. Natural resources
are defined as Earth materials used by civilization past and present
such as:
- Organic
materials such as petroleum, natural gas, coal and oil shale.
- Inorganic
substances found in the Earth such as mineral ores, building stone
and aggregate.
- Energy
resources from the Earth such as geothermal energy.
- Teaching should
include the scientific study of these resources, their origin,
discovery, extraction and historical and present use. It should also
include the preservation of the environment, reclamation and the conservation
of resources, and the use of earth science knowledge in decision making.
- Entries will
include the teacher’s philosophy and methods of the teaching
of natural resources (both content and pedagogy), a description of the
unit and two letters of recommendation --one from a colleague and one
from an administrator.
- Unit will
be evaluated on depth and breadth of concepts (resource origin,
discovery, processing, usage and reclamation), creativity of presentation
and balanced treatment of information regarding societal need and environmental
issues. Please include the length of the unit.
- For further
information and entry forms: Copies of any of the materials mentioned above can be obtained from
AAPG Headquarters or are included on this site.
Express mail or parcel service will be accepted if posted by deadline.
Facsimile and other electronic entry forms will not be accepted. Membership
in AAPG is not required for entry.
- AAPG society
affiliates must provide their candidates directly to their AAPG
Section. Societies must contact their AAPG Section for their respective
submittal deadline. Submittal deadline of the Sections' winning entries
to Tulsa is November 1, 2007.
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