OUR SHARED GEOHERITAGE Earth Science Week

www.earthscienceweek.org Earth LEARNING ACTIVITY EARTH SCIENCE WEEK POSTER PRODUCED BY CONSIDERING GEOHERITAGE Science There are many places where people go to experience 3. Using the key that tells where each photo was taken, nature, and many reasons why people may go to them. research one place. Consider how the themes of WITH SUPPORT FROM Some places are especially beautiful, or were formed in geoheritage relate to what you learn about that place. Week unusual ways. Other places are attractive for their history, 4. Create a brief description of the place that might go such as sites where people settled or made use of resources. in a travel brochure. Include details about the place SHARING The connections people make with natural places are at that strengthen its status as a geoheritage site. 2017 OUR GEOHERITAGE the heart of the concept of geoheritage. Part II: Make a geoheritage map of a place in your October 9–15 Geoheritage is our shared experience that comes about “Our Shared Geoheritage,” the theme of Earth areas highlighted on special days during community through human interactions with natural places. All the Science Week 2016 (October 9–15), promotes the week, such as National Fossil Day 1. Choose a place that is special in your community, such places on the front of this poster have value as natural awareness of the many ways that science (Wednesday) and Geologic Map Day as a schoolyard, local park, or the grounds around a heritage sites in one way or another (see “5 Big Ideas” helps us understand, appreciate, and make (Friday). library or museum. Try to pick a place you know well sidebar). By recognizing the geoheritage elements of the most of our geoscience heritage, or, as it is „„Earth Science Organizations (www.earth or can visit. commonly known worldwide, “geoheritage.” various sites, we become more attuned to our relationships sciweek.org/gpn/) provides a nationwide 2. Think about the natural features of the site that a By allowing us to see how the interactions with Earth, its interacting systems, and people of the past. map and database of geoscience agencies, person can visit, like a pond, rock outcrop, or wooded of Earth systems—geosphere, hydrosphere, These relationships are often considered valuable enough companies, and other organizations with area. atmosphere, and biosphere—have shaped Earth science expertise. that people decide to protect the site and the geoheritage 3. Consider the elements of geoheritage in relation to Future Dates our planet, Earth science helps us better it represents. „„Contests (www.earthsciweek.org/contests/) those features. Ask questions like: October 8–14, 2017 understand the rich natural heritage we enjoy. offers guidelines on the program’s annual October 14–20, 2018 „„Why have people left this in a natural state? Is it photo, art, and essay contests—plus a new MATERIALS October 3–19, 2019 This year’s theme encourages us to value the because of its beauty, some learning that can take video contest—which award prizes to „„Earth Science Week 2016 poster front collection of natural wonders, landforms, place there, its value for recreation, or some other students and others nationwide. „„ and resources that have formed over eons Large paper reason? and come to this generation to manage, „„Computer with Google Maps and Street View available CELEBRATING „„How have the ways people interacted with this use, and conserve effectively. Geoheritage place changed over time? sites, features, and resources are studied not GEOHERITAGE EVERYWHERE PROCEDURE Wherever you are, the Earth science of „„Has this place always been used in the way it is only with the five senses, but also through Part I: Identify geoheritage elements using images of geoheritage can be learned, taught, today? How has its use been decided? What parts sciences and technologies such as seismology, different places investigated, experienced, and shared: of the site were changed or left as they are? economic geology, remote sensing, mapping, 1. Look at the front of this poster. Consider one of the „„Schools and classrooms can hold classroom „„How can features of this place be studied, measured, computer modeling, and Earth observation. places shown. Describe what you can observe about activities and invite guest geoscientists the place. What can you infer about the place based or described? Have people kept records about the Earth Science Week Program Partners

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