Geosciences Information For Teachers

Friedrich Barnikel reflects on the final Geoscience Information For Teachers workshop in Cape Town

Friedrich Barnikel and Simon Clark October 18, 2024

The final edition of the capacity building Geoscience Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop was held this year in Cape Town, South Africa. This three-year programme, an initiative by the EGU Education Committee, brought together local teachers and scientists to build a sustainable, long-term workshop series and network for teacher training in geoscience education. The 2024 theme was “Exploring ...[Read More]

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

Friedrich Barnikel February 2, 2024

Hands-on action at the Two Oceans Aquarium in GIFT Cape Town, 2023

Many teachers follow path writ by a particular diction, which reads “lifelong learning”. There is no other way, actually, to keep track of all of these fast changing issues and challenges of today’s world, which, in many ways, touch geoscientific topics (climate change, food security, geopolitics, to name but a few). Consequently many teachers are eager to learn from science as much as they can in ...[Read More]

What is GIFT? The Education Committee’s Jean-Luc Berenguer & Phil Smith explain

Simon Clark March 30, 2022

Jean-Luc Berengeur and Phil Smith

EGU’s annual Geoscience Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop will take place between 4 – 8 April 2022, with the theme of “How the planet shapes history – Geosciences, human society and civilizations”. To find out more about what GIFT is and get a taster for the workshop’s content EGU’s Programme Coordinator, Simon Clark, talked with two of the organisers: th ...[Read More]

Educators: apply now to take part in the 2020 GIFT workshop!

Olivia Trani October 16, 2019

EGU General Assembly 2019 GIFT Workshop Practical questions, making people think (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

The General Assembly is not only for researchers but also for teachers and educators with an interest in the geosciences. Every year the Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) workshop is organised by the EGU Committee on Education to bring first class science closer to primary and high school teachers. The topic of the 2020 edition of GIFT is ‘Water in the solar system’. This year’s workshop ...[Read More]