Earth's History
July 26-31
Ian MacGregor
Smithsonian Science Liason
Smithsonian Institution
MacGregor was educated at Aberdeen University, Scotland (B.Sc.), Queen’s University, Canada (M.Sc.), and Princeton University, NJ (Ph.D.). His experience includes a number of different roles in the area of the Earth Sciences over the past 40 years. He has taught as a professor at the Southwest Center of Advanced Studies (now the University of Texas, Dallas) and the University of California at Davis, and worked at the National Science Foundation where he served as Division Director of the Earth Science Division. Research contributions have led to a better understanding of Earth’s upper mantle, the petrography of lunar rocks and the ocean crust.
In the last six years he has worked at the National Science Resources Center (NSRC). His role has been as a science advisor for the development of middle school STC/MS science curricula (Catastrophic Events and Earth in Space), and leader for NSRC’s project to revise 24 Science and Technology for Children (STC) texts for Grades K-6. The revision also includes the development of 24 books aligned to STC texts that enhance literacy skills contextualized to science knowledge.
Macgregor served as the intellectual coordinator to develop the “Teacher’s Guide” for an international program called GLOBE, helped develop readers for K-4 children, and aligned GLOBE material to the National Science Education Standards.
