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June 30, 2021

Death Valley geology hiking/camping trip Dec 2021

Explore Death Valley with a group of hikers interested in examining the geology of the park. The trip is December 28, 2021 through January 1, 2022.

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May 13, 2021

Lava Beds & Tule Lake geology hiking/camping trip; July 2021

Lava Beds & Tule Lake: July 11-14 Continuing our July northeast California trips, we will spend four days exploring Lava Beds National Monument, plus the Tule Lake National Monument. Katie and I are leading another hiking/camping trip with our Meetup group. If you would like to attend, space is limited so be sure to RSVP on Meetup here. The trip...

California History/Geology/earthquakes/Science hikes Comments: 0

May 12, 2021

Mt. Lassen and Lava Beds geology hiking/camping trip; July 2021

Three-day geology focused hiking in the Mt. Lassen area in Northern California. Nights spent in a group campsite.

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April 15, 2020

Death Valley online tour: COVID-19 social distancing

Using Google Earth as the tour map, and combining my knowledge from the trips I have taken there with my photos and YouTube/Vimeo videos, I organized an online tour for of Death Valley April 15th, 2020. Below are images and videos from that tour (I hope to add a Google Earth link soon).

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April 6, 2020

Zoom + Whiteboard = almost in the classroom

As we move forward with online learning due to the COVID-19, I’m offering Zoom-based office hours. There are high-tech ways of sharing screens, etc, but I decided to use a low-tech solution to share drawings with my students.

Computers and the web/Education and schools/Science Education Comments: 0

April 3, 2020

Learning in the era of Pass/No pass

In light of the COVID-19 crisis, more K-12 schools and school districts are moving to Pass/No pass (P/NP) instead of traditional A-F grading. Rather than thinking of this as a loss, I suggest we use this as an opportunity. I have been a high school teacher for 26 years. During that time, I, and many of my colleagues, are continually...

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