Northeastern Section - 44th Annual Meeting (22–24 March 2009)
Session No. 12 Sunday, 22 March 2009
1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Holiday Inn By the Bay: Rhode Island Room

Geoscience Education

Alexander Gates and Kristine Larsen, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
12-11:00 PM FROM DISCRETE TOPICS TO INTEGRATED SYSTEMS: CHANGING THE WAY K-12 TEACHERS VIEW EARTH SCIENCE: EBERT, James R., Earth Sciences Department, SUNY College at Oneonta, Ravine Parkway, Oneonta, NY 13820-4015, Ebertjr@oneonta.edu
12-21:20 PM MAKING GEOSCIENCES “REAL” FOR URBAN YOUTH IN NEWARK, NJ: GATES, Alexander E., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rutgers Univ, Newark, NJ 07102, agates@andromeda.rutgers.edu and KALCZYNSKI, Michael J., Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, 101 Warren Street, Smith Hall, Newark, NJ 07102
12-31:40 PM TEACHING GEOSCIENCE, AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN AN URBAN SETTING: DIPRINZIO, Tovah Dyann, Education- Secondary, City College of New York- Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468, Poetryfn@aol.com
12-42:00 PM SHADOW AND FLAME: J.R.R. TOLKIEN IN THE GEOSCIENCE CLASSROOM: LARSEN, Kristine, Physics and Earth Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley St, New Britain, CT 06050, larsen@ccsu.edu
12-52:20 PM WHY STUDENTS HAVE DIFFICULTIES LEARNING ABOUT ROCKS AND THEIR FORMATION: KORTZ, Karen M., Physics Department, Community College of Rhode Island, 1762 Louisquisset Pike, Lincoln, RI 02865, kkortz@ccri.edu, MURRAY, Daniel, GEOSCIENCES, Univ OF RHODE ISLAND, WOODWARD HALL, Kingston, RI 02881, and SMAY, Jessica, Department of Physical Sciences, San Jose City College, 2100 Moorpark Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128

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