North-Central Section - 39th Annual Meeting (May 19–20, 2005)
Paper No. 29-2
Presentation Time: 9:20 AM-9:40 AM

TAKING RESEARCH ON THE ROAD: THE CLASSROOM DAM REMOVAL STORY

SANDLAND, Travis, Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 West Kellogg Blvd, Saint Paul, MN 55102, tsandland@smm.org and CAMPBELL, Karen, National Ctr for Earth-surface Dynamics, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, 2 Third Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

The Science Museum of Minnesota's Earthscapes Education program provides K-12 students, teachers and the public opportunities to explore data and concepts from National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) research. NCED is an NSF funded Science and Technology Center devoted to interdisciplinary understanding of the ecological and physical processes that define and shape rivers and river networks. The Earthscapes programs include an outdoor science park, field-based summer teacher institutes and a traveling “school residency” program. This session will present classroom activities developed for the residency, in which students explore physical and social issues involved in a real dam-removal case study. Participants will have a chance to experiment with the classroom-scale dam-removal models developed by NCED researchers and Science Museum educators and to try out some of the classroom data collection activities developed to date.

North-Central Section - 39th Annual Meeting (May 19–20, 2005)
General Information for this Meeting
Session No. 29
Inquiry-Based, Hands-On, Classroom Exercises, Lab Demonstrations, and Field Investigations in Geoscience Education
Radisson Metrodome: Coffman Room
9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Friday, 20 May 2005

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 37, No. 5, p. 74
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