Creativity in Earth Science - a conversation with Catherine Ciocchi
This month, Crankin’ Up Creativity looks at how creativity advances science by talking with Hudson Valley native Catherine Ciocchi. As a youngster, Catherine and her family enjoyed camping and hiking in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. Catherine Ciocchi is an Earth science teacher and author of This Land is Your Land (Arbordale Publishing) Now an Ea rth science teacher for high schoolers, Catherine also is the author of This Land is Your Land ( Arbordale Publishing , May 2015), a p icture book that has young readers take a trip around the world to discover the Earth's landforms and geologic features, www.catherineciocchi.com , twitter.com/CatherineCiocc1. Crankin’ Up Creativity : Science is based on cut-and-dry facts. That leaves little room for creativity, doesn’t it? Catherine Ciocch i : We are all on the planet Earth, except for the group aboard the International Space Station. For this reason, Earth science is actually the foundation of our every day (and nigh