Announcement of the European Geosciences Union:

Workshop 2006

Geophysical Information for Teachers - The Polar Regions

Vienna - Vienne - Wien

April, 02 - 04 2006

during the

European
Geosciences
Union

General Assembly - Austria Center Vienna

URL of this page: ../gift

Invitation to teachers in Europe

The European Geosciences Union EGU and Co-sponsors kindly invite for the fourth time teachers from Europe to a workshop 'Geophyiscal Information For Teachers' (GIFT). The The workshop takes place during the EGU General Assembly 2006 in the Austria Center in Vienna. The participation and accomodation in the workshop as well as parts of or the full travel (depending on the price) are granted for about 60 science teachers in Europe. The EGU General Assembly is the largest conference in Geosciences in Europe and attracts every year thousands of scientists from all over the world.

Registration deadline is December, 20th 2005. You will be informed on acceptence/rejection on your application by  January, 15th 2006.

Contact addresses are given for several countries at 'contact' in the horizontal navigation bar, or write to:

Registration form:	Word	PDF
organiser:	Dr. Carlo Laj CNRS Gif sur Yvette	Carlo.Laj @ lsce.cnrs-gif.fr

This workshop offers teachers of Elementary to High Schools an opportunity to upgrade their knowledge in geophysical themes and to shorten the time between discovery and text books.
The workshop program combines scientific presentations on current research by leading scientists participating to the EGU General Assembly, with hands-on activities presented by science educators that can be used by the teachers in their classrooms. Also, teachers are encouraged to give short presentations of special activities they have developed themselves.

The theme of the GIFT-2006 worksshop is "The polar regions", which will be examined on different aspects. For example: ice cores, life in polar regions, the ozone hole, past and present climate, exploration and discovery of the polar regions.

Participating teachers will also have an opportunity to attend the general assembly of the EGU, listen to scientific talks, view poster sessions and technical exhibitions.

Registration of GIFT-2006 and the General Assembly is free for the selected teachers and travel/living grants are available. Accepentence of the grants and/or free registration implies for the teacher the obligation to attend the entire workshop and to provide an immediate feedback of its effectiveness by filling the evaluation form. In addition, teachers will be asked to provide a report 6 months after the workshop on whether and how they have used the new concepts learned at the GIFT workshop in their classrooms.

We are awaiting your application and would appreciate to welcome you in Vienna.