>From Gabe Lyon: TUNE IT IN on JULY 26! The National Geographic Channel will profile Project Exploration and the Advanced Paleontology program recent fieldwork in Wyoming! Thursday, July 26 National Geographic Channel 7 pm EST ADVANCED PALEONTOLOGY 2001 >From July 9-20, 2001, Project Exploration partnered with the University of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools to offer 10 minority high school students a rigorous experience with paleontology. After an intensive week studying earth science, geology, anatomy & paleontology, participants headed to the dinosaur-rich badlands of eastern Wyoming, and the warm welcome of the Zerbst family and PaleoPark for a week of real-life fieldwork. Advanced Paleo excavated a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, prospected for 65-million-year-old fossils, and learned first hand about ranch life in the West. AP 2001 Participants: Fred Barge, Hyde Park Academy; Monica Davila, Noble Street Charter; Towfiq Farraj, Renata Pudzisz, and Elena Schroeter, Curie High School; Hank Gonzalez, Whitney Young; Shureice Kornegay and Susan Silva, Global Village Small School at Amundsen; Hugo Pelayo, Jones Magnet; Cecilia Yu, Hubbard High School. To read excerpts from students’ field journals, log on www.projectexploration.org! -- This is the CPS Science Teacher List. To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For more information: <http://home.sprintmail.com/~mikelach/subscribe.html>. To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/science%40lists.csi.cps.k12.il.us/>
