This new event will focus on the world beneath your feet. It coincides with Earth Science Awareness Week, with events across the nation. We are planning a variety of fun and educational activities for adults and children.

Inside our museum will be children’s rock-craft activities. Listen to our fascinating geoscience speakers*, discover geology through a microscope with microfossils and microminerals. Learn how to photograph specimens (helpful if you want to get something identified by e-mail) and how to display them in your home or office. Pick up free brochures from many fossil parks across North America. Three universities will have manned tables with information about degrees in geology. Teachers can sign up and win a 50, 75 or 100 piece geology collection. Free rock and fossil identification -- bring in your unknowns!

Molly Miller, PhD, Vanderbilt University (Flourishing Life in Antarctica: When in the Past, Where Today?); Rebecca Freeman, PhD, University of Kentucky (Extinction and Shells on the Beach); Walt Gray, Indiana Geological Survey (Earthquakes in the Midwest); Dave Meyer, PhD, University of Cincinnati, (The Age of Crinoids in Kentucky); Steve Greb, PhD, Kentucky Geological Survey (Geological History of the Ohio Valley - Morning teacher's workshop).

Outside we will have our fossil and mineral dig piles, guided outer and Indiana shore fossil bed hikes. The Indiana Geological Survey will have their Quake Cottage - an earthquake simulator. Experience a temblor from 5.5 to 8.0 on the Richter scale.