San Francisco Bay Area Earth Science Workshop for Junior andSenior High School Educators

湾区地球科学研究所（BAESI）是一个跨... 为中学地球和海洋学科举办暑期讲习班， 物理科学教育家。 从1990年7月开始 将汇集来自学术界、政府、 机构和行业在社区范围内努力改善 中学地球科学背景与教学技巧 以及旧金山弗朗西斯科湾的高中教育工作者 区 每年夏天，当地学校的38名科学教师 各区将在圣何塞州立大学举行会议， 深入指导的主题，从地震， 板块构造，矿产和能源，天气， 气候和水资源问题。 研讨会将持续四个月 星期一到星期五 主题开发在 周一至周四上午的会议将得到补充 下午的会议涉及互动实验室 实验和创新的教学方法介绍。 这些课程将包括计算机辅助教学， 关于BAESEnet的培训，这是一个计算机网络， 夏季研讨会结束后，与会者。 每个 周五，参与者将前往实地学习如何 断层崖、滑坡、海滩等自然地貌， 以及大学地震仪等当地资源， 矿物收藏可用于增强课堂主题 发展和提供传统科学的替代品 教学方法 参与者将获得津贴，通勤费用， 国家科学基金会的材料包， 行业赞助商。 参加者还将获得 有机会赚取高达四个单位的先进的大学 信用 此外，工业和其他企业谁 资助经济困难学校参加者 地区将为课堂地球科学提供支持 项目和实地考察在下一学年。 每年研讨会的参与者将帮助发展 或修改BAESI教育工作者的工作手册， 最有用和最具创新性的课堂纲要， 实验室和实地演习。 本手册还将 包含参与者的工作地址， 所有之前的BAESI参与者。 杰出参与者 将成为导师计划的目标， 要求在今后的讲习班中担任教员。 的 该计划强烈鼓励少数民族教育参与者 以及来自少数族裔比例高的学区的参与者 登记人数。 169，700美元的成本分摊相当于NSF的73% 奖

The Bay Area Earth Science Institute (BAESI), is a cross- disciplinary, summer workshop for secondary school earth and physical science educators. Starting in July, 1990 BAESI will bring together experts from academia, government agencies, and industry in a community wide effort to improve the earth science backgrounds and teaching skills of middle and senior high school educators in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each summer 38 science teachers from local school districts will meet at San Jose State University to receive in-depth instruction on topics ranging from earthquakes and plate tectonics, mineral and energy resources, to weather, climate and water issues. The workshop will run for four weeks, Monday through Friday. Topic development in the Monday through Thursday morning sessions will be complemented by afternoon sessions involving interactive laboratory experiments and innovative teaching method presentations. These sessions will include computer-assisted instruction and training on BAESEnet a computer network designed to aid participants after the summer workshop is completed. Each Friday participants will travel to the field to learn how natural features such as fault scarps, landslides, beaches, and local resources such as university seismographs and mineral collections can be used to enhance classroom topic development and provide alternatives to traditional science teaching methods. Participants will receive stipends, commuting costs, and materials packets from the National Science Foundation and industry sponsors. Participants will also be given the opportunity to earn up to four units of advanced college credit. In addition, industries and other businesses who sponsor participants from economically disadvantaged school districts will provide support for classroom earth science projects and field trips during the following academic year. Each year workshop participants will help in the development or modification of the BAESI educator's workbook, a compendium of the most useful and innovative classroom, laboratory and field exercises. This workbook will also contain participant work addresses and will be available to all previous BAESI participants. Outstanding participants will be targeted for the Mentor Teacher program and will be asked to serve as instructors in future workshops. The program strongly encourages minority educator participants and participants from school districts with high minority enrollments. Cost sharing in the amount of $169,700 equals 73% of the NSF award.