Conference Agenda

Session
09.03 What Do We Know About Learning and Teaching Geosciences? – Geoscience Education Research and Outreach
Time:
Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:
8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Sylke Hlawatsch, Richard-Hallmann Schule
Session Chair: Sharon Michelle Locke, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Session Chair: Matthias Alberti, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Location: Oec 0.169 Nebengebäude

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Presentations
8:30am - 9:00am
Invited Session Keynote
Topics: 09.03 What Do We Know About Learning and Teaching Geosciences? – Geoscience Education Research and Outreach

Cultivating Geoscience Literacy – What does it take?

Cheryl Manning

Earth Systems Science Education Research and Consulting, United States of America



9:00am - 9:15am
Topics: 09.03 What Do We Know About Learning and Teaching Geosciences? – Geoscience Education Research and Outreach

Educational programs for children at the Museum Mineralogia Munich: Exploring meteorites, volcanoes and the rock cycle

Melanie Kaliwoda1,2, Fabio Joseph2, Jana Zuncke2, Sima Akrami1, Aliaksandra Rost1, Niclas Reitberger2

1Mineralogische Staatssammlung München, Germany; 2Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, LMU, Germany



9:15am - 9:30am
Topics: 09.03 What Do We Know About Learning and Teaching Geosciences? – Geoscience Education Research and Outreach

EGU Geosciences Education Field Officers – Assessment of Workshops in Germany

Sylke Hlawatsch1,2

1Richard-Hallmann-Schule, Trappenkamp, Germany; 2EGU Geoscience Education Field Officer for Germany



9:30am - 9:45am
Topics: 09.03 What Do We Know About Learning and Teaching Geosciences? – Geoscience Education Research and Outreach

Experiences from education and public outreach in the National Geopark GrenzWelten. How to make climate change and relevant UNESCO SDG topics exciting

Oliver Weidlich1,2, Ute Richter2, Georg Bresser2

1TU Berlin, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften; 2Geopark GrenzWelten, Landkreis Waldeck-Frankenberg



9:45am - 10:00am
Topics: 09.03 What Do We Know About Learning and Teaching Geosciences? – Geoscience Education Research and Outreach

From Field to Future: How Out-of-Classroom Experiences Shape Geoscience Trajectories

Sharon Michelle Locke, Mariam Sani, Alan Black, Shunfu Hu, Adriana Martinez

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States of America