FOSSIL Kickoff Meeting
February 19, 2014
Outreach 1 Breakout Session
General Outreach
• Field camps
• School programs
• Dino Days, annual fossil shows w/teacher programs, education, packs
• Fossil parks
• Teacher training workshops
• Rotating fossil collections to schools
Problems
• Depends on connections with teachers, schools
• Liability issues
• Politics (museum collections depts vs education staff)
To do
• Align with STEM standards
• Counselors for scout badges
• K – 5 resources in particular
• Link clubs with state teacher associations
• Clearinghouses
o Advisors (for badges, experts for teacher to contact)
o Lesson plans geared to teaching standards
o Control content location
o Local person contacts
o Access to fossils
o Get merit badges added back to scouts
• Get paleosoc.org resources out to teachers
• Club goals to collect for fossil boxes to accompany lesson plans
• Tap college geology clubs to go to schools (teaching experience for them and resource for teachers and students)