Sea Experience: Theoretical and Practical Summer Programs of Teacher Enhancement in Marine Science

这个为期5年的SEA（海洋教育协会）项目提供 每年两次密集的暑期学习班-一次为 小学教师和一名中学到高中的教师 学校科学和数学教师-海洋和 航海科学，旨在为参与者提供一个 海洋科学常识，野外和实验室概念 可以在课堂上实施并传递的工作 以及海上工作的实际经验 作为科学研究团队的一员 二十- 三名小学教师和二十三名中学教师， 每年将在全国范围内选拔高中教师 参加暑期班，共230人 教师在项目的过程中。 海上体验计划将开始与岸上， 为期三周的组件在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔举行， 校园;在这里，教师将参加课程 强调物理、化学、地质学的基本概念 和生物学，可以通过 研究海洋。 每个项目的最后十天 将花费在船上一个;s装备齐全 海洋学研究帆船，教师将 参与实际的动手体验， 研究项目和船只的运作。 后续活动将包括每年为海洋和沿海区举办讲习班， 体验参与者，每一位老师都会致力于 举办两个在职培训讲习班， 家乡州。 教师将获得各种各样的 在自己的教学中使用的材料，也将 要求为同事举办两次研讨会， 家庭学校 这一建议适用于教师增强，因为 它旨在提高科学知识和教学 参与者，因为它提供了实际的 作为团队的一部分进行科学研究的经验 research. 非NSF费用分摊约为金额的34% 向NSF请求。

This 5-year SEA (Sea Education Association) project offers two intensive summer institutes each year - one for elementary school teachers and one for middle through high school science and mathematics teachers - in marine and nautical sciences, designed to provide participants with a general knowledge of marine sciences, ideas of field and lab work that can be implemented in the classroom and passed on to other teachers, and practical experience working at sea as part of a team conducting scientific research. Twenty- three elementary school teachers and twenty-three middle and high school teachers will be selected nationally each year to participate in the summer institutes, for a total of 230 teachers over the course of the project. The Sea Experience programs will begin with shore-based, three week components held in Woods Hole, MA at SEA's campus; here, teachers will participate in courses emphasizing basic concepts in physics, chemistry, geology and biology which can be conveyed to students through studies of the ocean. The final ten days of each program will be spent on board one of SEA;s fully equipped oceanographic research sailing vessels, where teachers will participate in the practical hands-on experience of carrying out research projects and in the operation of the vessels. Follow-up activities will include annual workshops for Sea Experiences participants, and each teacher will be committed to presenting two in-service training workshops in their home states. Teachers will be provided with a large variety of materials to use in their own teaching and will also be required to conduct two workshops for colleagues in their home schools. This proposal is appropriate for Teacher Enhancement because it is designed to enhance the science knowledge and teaching of participants, and because it provides practical experience working as part of a team conducting scientific research. Non-NSF Cost-sharing is approximately 34% of the amount requested from NSF.