Essential Science for Teachers Earth & Space Science Exploring
topics that range from soil to the solar system, Essential
Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science provides
participants the opportunity to increase their science content
knowledge and develop new understandings of how this content
connects to K - 6 classrooms. This course is composed of eight
sessions, each with a one-hour video program addressing a topic
area in Earth and Space science that emphasizes the science
content that is likely to be part of any elementary school
science curriculum. Posing the question "What is Earth’s
structure and its place in the universe?", the course begins by
looking at soil, the top layer of the solid Earth and interface
between rock, water and atmosphere. We then explore the nature
of the dynamic Earth and the internal and external processes
that are continually at work shaping the planet. Moving on from
the Earth, the course continues with an investigation into
Earth’s neighborhood in space. Video examples