Geosciences Information For Teachers workshop presentation by Laurent Jolivet (Université d’Orléans, Paris, France) at the 2017 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union. The 2017 GIFT Workshop, , was titled The Mediterranean. (Credit: EGU/Luca Mariani, )
The EGU Committee on Education has organised Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT, ) Workshops since 2003. These are two-and-a-half-day teacher enhancement workshops held in conjunction with EGU’s annual General Assembly. There, selected top-level scientists working in the Earth Sciences offer the invited teachers talks center
...ed on a different theme every year.
The main objective of the GIFT workshops is to spread first-hand scientific information to science teachers of primary and secondary schools, significantly shortening the time between discovery and textbook, and to provide the teachers with material that can be directly transported to the classrShow more