Dear Sir / Madam I am providing below some matter that is of use and interest to you. I request you kindly to circulate the following material to all the schools in your area so that interested teachers can make use of this initiative that is being launched during the International Year of Planet Earth - 2008. I would appreciate receiving the email address of all the schools in your area so that in future it would be easy for me to communicate directly with the schools as and when some useful information comes in. Many thanks for your time and attention. Sincerely yours R Shankar Member, Council International Geoscience Education Organisation __________________________________________________ Earthlearningidea Please give Earthlearningidea your moral support - and let us know of any global contacts you may have to alert people to Earthlearningidea. We will be publishing a new idea for teaching Earth science every week during the International Year of Planet Earth, 2008. The ideas are for use in classrooms that have minimal resources and should develop scientific understanding and thinking skills. Each one will encourage discussion through a blog to develop a global network of those interested in Earth science education. So, we would like to alert them to: an Earth science teaching idea every week at minimal cost, with minimal resources for teacher educators and teachers of Earth science through school-level geography or science an online discussion around every idea to develop a global network Please help us by: Giving us your moral support Sending to info@earthlearningidea.com the *Country *Name *Email address *Institution name of anybody you know interested in Earth science education so we can alert them to Earthlearningidea - the contact details we really want are those of science, geography and Earth science educators in teacher training (pre-service education) institutions around the world - but the details of any interested teacher would be good as well. Clicking on http://earthlearningidea.com to see how it works - and giving us your feedback through the blog http://earthlearningidea.blogspot.com . ____________________________________________________________ Dr R SHANKAR Professor Department of Marine Geology Mangalore University Mangalagangotri - 574 199, INDIA Tel: 91-824-2284465 (Direct), 2287389 (Off), 2441907 (Home) Fax: 91-824-2287367, 2287424. ____________________________________________________________ Foreign Secretary, Geological Society of India Member, Council, International Geoscience Education Organisation Principal Investigator of Research Projects: 1. MAGNETIC STUDIES OF SOILS FROM SOUTHERN INDIA (funded by Department of Science & Technology) 2. PALAEOCLIMATE FROM LAKE- AND TANK-BED SEDIMENTS FROM SOUTHERN INDIA (funded by Indian Space Research Organisation). -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.