Earth to Class

Earth2Class (Earth to Class/E2C)
is a unique science/math/technology resource for K-12 teachers, students, the general public, and geoscientists. It is a collaboration among researchers and an Earth Science educator at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University ; technology integration specialists from Colégio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brasil; and classroom teachers from New York, New Jersey, and elsewhere.

E2C centers around “Saturday Workshops for Educators” held at Columbia's Lamont Campus in Palisades N.Y. One key feature to E2C is involvement of LDEO scientists. Their availability through workshops, web site postings, and e-mail allow teachers and students access to cutting-edge research which can be used to develop learning activities directly linked to “real-world problems,” and provide scientists with an effective format to disseminate their discoveries more broadly. Since 1998, we will have provided more than 100 Workshops featuring over 60 LDEO scientists.

Here are dates/themes/scientists for the 2009-2010 series:

26 Sep 2009: "GIS from the Hudson to the Nile:
     Data Visualization at Local, National, and Global
    Scales" with Kytt MacManus and Malanding Jaiteh

17 Oct: "Living and Discovering on the New, Improved
    JOIDES Resolution" with Trevor Williams

21 Nov: "State of Carbon Cycle in 2009 on the Eve of
      the Copenhagen International Climate Conference:
      Challenge to the Humanity" with Taro Takahashi

12 Dec: Earth2Class #100!! Celebration
     "Sustainable Development and the Role of Science"
      with John Mutter

23 Jan 2010: "Water Quality and Sewage
      Contamination in the Hudson River"
       with Andrew Juhl

27 Feb: "GeoMapApp: Creating lab activities for
     the 21st Century classroom"
      with Andrew Goodwillie

27 Mar: "Tsunami in the Hudson: Evidence for a Large
      Event with a Source on the New Jersey Margin"
      with Dallas Abbott

24 Apr: "In and beneath the Hudson's Waters" with
       Frank Nitsche, Tim Kenna, and Margie Turrin

8 May: AM: "Colonizing the Arctic"
       with Ray Sambrotto
PM: The annual E2C Hudson River kayaking adventure

During the next few months, the E2C Team plans a major revision of this website, so we hope that soon we will present you with a greatly enhanced collection of valuable materials in a more navigable format.

Thanks for your interest!

Online Registration Form
The easiest way to register for the Saturday Workshops

There is a $15 fee to attend each program, which covers lunch and other expenses. You can attend individual E2C workshops by completing this registration form. The Lamont campus is normally closed on Saturdays, so please pre-register so we can add your name to the Security Gatehouse entry list.

All programs take place in the Seismology-Marine Biology Building Seminar Room.

Directions to the LDEO Campus by Car or Shuttle Bus

A second key to E2C is the ever-growing collection of educational resources available on this web site, which provide teachers, students, and others access to up-to-date information about our changing planet. These make our offerings available to anyone, even if they cannot attend the live workshops. Use the Quick Links at the left or pull-down menus at the top of each page to explore these. Dr. Michael J Passow maintains these links.
E2C Team Members, Dr. Cristiana Mattos Assumpção and Frederico Dalmas Baggio, have begun to develop connections with educational institutions in their home of São Paulo, Brasil. Click here to learn about Earth2Class em Brasil/Earth2Class in Brazil.

E2C has been supported in part through National Science Foundation
Geoscience Education Grant 0331232.