EARTH SCIENCE WEEK 2011

The HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Annual Family Energy Festival - Houston Museum of Natural Science

Saturday, October 8, 11:00pm- 3:00pm

We kick off the week with our annual Family Energy Festival at the Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Paleontology Hall and Wiess Energy Hall. The festival will feature a passport program that takes you through hands-on demonstrations, special presentations, Boy Scout badge activities, and other great programs that broaden awareness of earth science.

2^nd Annual Classroom Connections - Art, Essay, and Photography Contest UPDATED

We want to thank all of you who partcipated in our 2011 HGS/CEA/HMNS contest. Please join us in congratulating the winners listed below. These awards will be presented in person on October 15th at 4pm on stage in front of City Hall during the CEA Energy Day event. Please come out for the event. Teachers who have not collected their AGI Teacher's kits, please visit the HGS booth number 17! You will also be able to view the winning entries at our booth.

Consumer Energy Alliance “Energy Day” – Downtown Houston

Saturday, October 15, 11:00am – 5:00pm

Consumer Energy Alliance is hosting in partnership with the City of Houston called Energy Day.  Energy Day is a public, family-friendly festival being held in Hermann Square and Tranquility Park in Downtown Houston, Texas.  Geared toward K-12 students, Energy Day’s mission is to educate students and their families about energy by demonstrating energy innovation, technology, efficiency & conservation and the overall role of all forms of energy in meeting our current & future energy needs. The Energy Day website is http://www.energyday2011.org/

HGS will be sponsoring a hands-on activity at our booth and a field trip for the Energy Day celebration:

• Walking Downtown Building Stone Field Trip – this guided tour will show the various stonework of the nearby buildings. We will talk about the origin of the rocks that make up these buildings and the processes that formed the rock. A tour will leave about every two hours starting at 10am. Click here for more information.
  
  
• At our covered booth, a hands-on activity from More! Rocks in Your Head workshop for teachers will demonstrate why hydrocarbons are considered a non-renewable resource. Click here for more information.

Whiskey Bridge, Eocene Fieldtrip – Brazos River near Bryan, TX

Sunday, October 16, arrive anytime between 10:00am- 3:00pm

Whiskey Bridge is the Hwy 21 Bridge over the Brazos River. This site is the most fossiliferous locality in Texas. We will have scheduled discussions on the environment of deposition, geologic history, and paleontology of the area. Participants will be able to collect and with help from experts, identify various Eocene marine fossils.