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

这个为期三年的项目将提供一个密集的五周 夏季教育计划在海洋科学中， 通过高中科学教师参与教师 在其家乡举办培训班和讲习班。 该计划是 旨在为教师提供 海洋科学，野外和实验室工作的想法，他们可以 在他们的教室里实施并教导他人， 更重要的是，一个实际的工作和生活经验， 海 为期三周的岸基部分将在 伍兹霍尔，将包括一个密集的五十小时的课程 讲座，实验室，研讨会，并在海洋实地考察 以理工科为重 本课程将强调 物理学、化学、地质学和生物学， 通过对海洋的研究，向学生们传授知识， 旨在编制将实施的课程 在这些老师的教室里。 此外，两个短 系列讲座-一个题为“美国与 海洋”和其他各种主题的航海科学-- 将提出的，以加强随后的经验， 老师们将在海上。 这最后两周 然后在装备齐全的海洋航行中度过 研究船的实际动手经验， 开展研究项目并参与 这是为数不多的几艘“高大的船”之一， 实践海洋研究。 这次非凡的经历将 扩大参与者的科学知识基础， 了解当前的科学研究方法， 振兴他们的教学。 费用分摊将占NSF部分的16%。

This three-year project will provide an intensive five-week summer educational program in Marine Sciences for middle through high school science teachers involved in teacher training and workshops in their home states. The program is designed to provide teachers with a general knowledge of Marine Sciences, ideas for field and lab work that they can implement in their classrooms and teach others and, most importantly, a practical experience of working and living at sea. The shore-based, three-week component will be held in Woods Hole and will consist of an intensive fifty 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 ocean, and will be directed towards development of curricula to be implemented in the classrooms of these teachers. In addition, two short lecture series -- one entitled "The United States and the Sea" and the other on various topics in Nautical Science -- will be presented to enhance the subsequent experience that the teachers will have at sea. This final two weeks will then be spent on board a fully equipped oceanographic sailing research vessel where the practical hands-on experience of carrying out a research project and participating in the operation of one of the few remaining "tall ships" that practice marine research. This extraordinary experience will expand the participants scientific knowledge base, help them to understand current methodology of scientific research, and revitalize their teaching. The cost sharing will be sixteen percent of the NSF portion.