GeoEd Summer Workshop
for High School Educators

(Application Deadline: March 17, 2023)

The National Science Foundation has funded UNG to host a first-of-its-kind professional development workshop in Georgia designed for teachers of high school STEM and special education. Join us June 12—16 to experience how Project-Based Learning through the captivating lens of geoscience can awaken deeper student interest within the STEM fields.

Additional Benefits

After completion of this immersive 5-day workshop
(Minimum attendance: 80% each day; about 30 hours.)
Attendees will also receive:

• A $1000 stipend
• A certificate of completion from UNG College of Education and IESA
• A year of UNG faculty assistance for implementing PBL into the classroom

Virtual Field Trip

On one workshop day, we will take a virtual tour upon four outcrops across North Georgia that bare clues to the environmental changes leading up to one of history's greatest extinction events.

Activities Include

• Detecting radioactive decay with Geiger counters
• Tracking mineral transformations to a depth of 15 km below Earth’s surface
• Calculating Georgia's oldest rocks to an age before plants and animals existed
• Visiting the home of the state's best fossil and mineral samples, the Tellus Science Museum
• +More!