Don Duggan-Haas

Professional Title
Education Research Associate
Organization/Institution
About Me (Bio)
Don Duggan-Haas is the Director of Teacher Programs at The Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY. Don has taught at Colgate, Cornell, and Michigan State Universities, Kalamazoo College, and Tapestry and Norwich (New York) High Schools. His current work focuses on teacher professional development and curriculum materials development that fosters understanding of the central ideas of Earth systems science by engaging students and teachers in the close study of their local environments, and using those local understandings to grok larger natural systems and human roles within those systems. Or, that’s the aspiration at least.
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Paleontological Research Institution
08/15/2007

The ReaL Earth Inquiry project empowers teachers to employ real-world local and regional Earth system science in the classroom. Earth systems science teachers need the pedagogic background, the content, and the support that enables them to engage students in asking real questions about their own communities. The project is developing online "Teacher-Friendly Guides" (resources), professional development involving fieldwork, and inquiry-focused approaches using "virtual fieldwork experiences."