Margaret Carruthers Margaret has written and edited a test prep workbook for physics, edited a PE and TE for a basal health program for grades 3-6, and written and edited assessment items for grades 3-11. She also designed a grade 4 prototype for a general science program and managed state-specific assessment projects. Margaret is a geologist who received her BS degree from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and her MS degree in geology from the University of Massachusetts. Her work has taken her to many parts of North America and the Pacific and South Atlantic Ocean. For more than 10 years Margaret was a teacher and a consultant for wide range of science-related materials. Her awards include runner-up for The Daily Telegraph/BASF Young Science Writer Awards 2000, and overall winner of the Geologists’ Association Earth Alert Rockwriters’ Essay Competition 2000, for Exploring the Longest Volcano on Earth. She is also the author of seven science books for children and young adults. |