Teacher Center

What Can We Do For You?
Our commitment to education and schools is an important part of how we support the communities where we operate. We are excited about sharing mining, earth science and environmental education information with classroom teachers and other teaching professionals. We want our Web site to be a place where you can find useful information about science in action to share with your students. In this section, you will find downloadable classroom activity pages as well as information about touring our facilities and links to other sites that offer environmental science information.

Because education is so important to us, we asked teachers and teaching professionals how we can help with their classroom needs. We learned, among other things, that:

	Teachers want to take students on field trips to see firsthand how facilities operate;
	Teachers would like to have Vulcan earth scientists and other professionals visit their classrooms;
	Teachers appreciate real world connections with classroom speakers, industry mentors and other resource people;
	Teachers are interested in spending a day at a Vulcan facility to job-shadow a Vulcan professional;
	Teachers are interested in professional development programs that may be offered at Vulcan facilities, at their schools and on the Internet;
	Teachers are interested in partnerships that include one time financial grants, "in kind" grants, wildlife habitats, land reclamation efforts and ongoing sponsorships. (For information on how to apply for funding from Vulcan Materials Company, please see Vulcan Foundation for grant making guidelines.)

What additional needs and interests do you have that you would like to see added to the above list? Take our Survey and let us know.

For examples of our current community and educational activities, refer to our Social Responsibility 2000 Report.

We want to know what is important to you. Please take a few minutes to respond to our Survey. Your answers will help us develop additional materials and plan for the future.