Teacher Resource Day (for Educators Only)

Name: Teacher Resource Day (for Educators Only)
Start: 2024-10-12T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-12T12:30:00-04:00
Location: 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96), Ithaca, NY, United States, New York 14850

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 09:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96), Ithaca, NY, United States, New York 14850 | Ithaca, NY

PRI's annual Teacher Resource Day on Saturday, October 12th, from 9 am to 12:30 pm, at the Museum of the Earth has tables full of free fossil and geological specimens and other educational materials for teachers to use in their classrooms. The event is free and exclusively for teachers.
This year's giveaway will include resources from two gifts to PRI specifically for Teacher Resource Day:
Minerals, rocks, and fossils from the collection of Martin Pope, a long-time distinguished professor of solid-state physics at NYU, who passed away in 2022 at the age of 103.
Glassware and other lab materials from Wells College which closed in June of this year.
In addition to the resource giveaway, there are tours of PRI's extensive collections, the Museum of the Earth, our new Blaschkas Exhibit and our current temporary exhibit, NY Rocks! on the rocks and fossils of Upstate New York.
This year's featured presentation, "On Blashka Models, Biodiversity, and Evolution," will be given by Dr. Leslie Babonis, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell Univerisity.
We'll also hear about the Autumn BioBlitz in a short presentation. This BioBlitz begins on Friday, October 11th and runs through Sunday, October 13th, intentionally surrounding Teacher Resource Day.
The first 50 registrants receive a gift bag! If registration exceeds 50, we will maintain a waiting list. If you register and find yourself unable to attend, please let us know.
Register here to attend in person: https://forms.gle/znwYeiYQ29c6VRWD6