teacher education programs

oklahoma geological survey


Teacher Workshops
FIELD TRIPS
School Visitations

The Oklahoma Geological Survey offers workshops, classroom visits, and guided field trips as part of the educational outreach program available to Oklahoma schools.  The sessions must be scheduled in advance and are available as OGS scheduling allows.

For further information contact: James R. Chaplin


James Chaplin

OGS Geologist James R. Chaplin helps teachers select and sort samples at the OPIC Teacher's Resource Room

Teacher Workshops

Half or full-day workshops are available for a minimum of 8 teachers. Teachers must arrange workshops for a specific date, place, and topic. The cost ranges from $10 to $20 per teacher, and varies depending on material and manuals used in the requested workshop.

Possible topics include:

  • Identifying Minerals and Rocks
  • Using Fossils in the Classroom (numerous hands-on activities)
  • Using Topographic Maps in the Classroom
  • Exploring for Oil and Gas
  • Geology of Oklahoma Via Crossword Puzzles/Word Searches

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Teachers decide what samples and classroom activity sheets they want to take back to their students.


Geologic Field Trips to Arbuckle Mountains
For Teachers and Students

Teachers must provide transportation for students; maximum of 25 teachers/students; minimum of 15 teachers/students. Participants must provide their own sack lunch; half or full-day field trip may be requested.

COST: No cost except for fossil collecting if requested ($25 per group plus $5 per participant); payment for fossil collecting must be arranged by teacher.

Some features/activities to be seen/conducted:

  • Collecting sedimentary rocks
  • Fossil collecting at World Famous White Mound (see above for collecting fee)
  • Spectacular Prograding Waterfalls
  • Geologic Faults
  • Geologic Structures Including Anticlines and Synclines
  • Unconformitis Demonstrating Loss of Geologic Record
  • Mineral Springs and Artesian Well
  • Travertine-Depositing Streams
  • Folded and Tilted Rock Layers
  • Petroleum Reservoir Rocks, Seals, and Traps
  • Karsted Surfaces (Fossil Sinkholes/Caves)
  • Exhumed Oil Field
  • Alternate Energy Sources--Gas Shales/Tar Sands

Workshops

School Visitations

At no cost, are available for:

Elementary (Grades 1-6) Topics

  • Dot-to-Dot fossil activities
  • Classroom fossil dig
  • Minerals/Rocks in our everyday lives
  • Memory fossil game
  • Making fossil identification cards
  • Identification of minerals
  • Chip mining activity


Middle School (Grades 7-9) and
High School (Grades 9-12) Topics

  • Minerals/rocks in our everyday lives
  • Exploring for oil and gas game
  • Fossil preservation game
  • Classifying fossils
  • Coring activity-sampling the earth's crust
  • Using fossils to determine geologic ages of rock
  • Examining microfossils in deep-sea sediments (Binocular microscopes and lamps must be provided)
  • Careers in the Geosciences (High School only)

Jim Chaplin encourages teachers to tell the OGS what programs they want and need for their students.

Just submit your ideas, comments and suggestions to him using the information below. He would love to hear from you.

Connie Smith
Oklahoma Geological Survey
Rm. N-131
100 E. Boyd Street
Norman, OK 73019

phone 405/325-3031 fax 405/325-7069

 

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Connie Smith
Oklahoma Geological Survey
Rm. N-131
100 E. Boyd Street
Norman, OK 73019

phone 405/325-3031
direct line 405/325-8021 fax 405/325-7069

ogs@ou.edu