Earth Science Activities for Elementary Classrooms

July 25, 2016 Tulane Campus

8:30am-3:30pm

Teachers who attend this session will be able to reserve the Playing with Petroleum Kit for a period up to 10 days for their classroom use by attending a this workshop.  The Playing with Petroleum Kit is a FREE traveling classroom exhibit that brings hydrocarbon-based energy education to your students in a multidisciplinary format. Curriculum in the kit is correlated to State and National Standards.

Playing with Petroleum Kit Objectives:

Describe how sediments are formed and their importance

Describe how microfossils are important to geologists

Describe the importance of petroleum in our daily lives and objects made from petroleum

Identify how petroleum is formed and what organisms become petroleum

Understand the commitment of the oil industry in protecting the environment

Workshop at no cost to teachers in the Greater New Orleans Region.

Sessions will be held at Tulane. FREE parking in the Loyola parking garage has been arranged.  andrea.walker@gnostem.org for information