SEA Experience: A Theoretical and Practical Summer Program of Teacher Enhancement in Marine Sciences

该计划为小学、初中和高中教师提供为期五周的海洋科学暑期强化教育计划。该计划旨在为教师提供海洋科学的一般知识，他们可以在课堂上实施的实地和实验室工作的想法，最重要的是，在海上工作和生活的实际经验，这将建立他们对这一学科的理解的信心。为期三周的海岸课程将在伍兹霍尔举行，包括50小时的海洋科学密集课程，讲座，实验室，研讨会和实地考察。本课程将强调物理、化学、地质学和生物学的基本概念，这些概念可以通过对海洋的研究传达给学生。它的目的将是制定在课堂上实施的课程。此外，本课程亦设有两个简短的系列讲座，一个以“麻萨诸塞州与海洋”为题，另一个则以航海科学的不同主题为主题，以增加教师日后在海上的经验。课程的最后两周将在一艘装备齐全的海洋研究船上度过，R/V西号，在那里进行研究项目的实际操作经验和参与实践海洋研究的为数不多的“高船”之一的操作将建立参与者对所获得的科学知识的信心，并将更新和振兴他们的教学。

This program offers an intensive five-week summer educational program in Marine Sciences for upper elementary, junior high and high school teachers. The program is designed to provide teachers with a general knowledge of Marine Sciences, ideas for field and lab work that they could implement in their classrooms and, most importantly, a practical experience of working and living at sea that would build confidence in their understanding of the subject. The shore-based, three-week component will be held in Woods Hole and will consist of an intensive 50-hour course of lectures, labs, workshops, and field trips in Marine Sciences. This course will emphasize the basic concepts in physics, chemistry, geology, and biology that can be conveyed to students through studies of the oceans. It will be directed towards development of curricula to be implemented in the classroom. In addition, two short lecture series -one entitled "Massachusetts and the Sea" and the other on various topics in Nautical Science - will be presented in order to enhance the subsequent experience that the teachers will have at sea. The final two weeks of the course will be spent on board a fully equipped oceanographic research vessel, the R/V Westward, where the practical hands-on experience of carrying out research projects and participating in the operation of one of the few remaining "tall ships" that practice marine research will build confidence in the scientific knowledge the participants have gained, and will refresh and revitalize their teaching.