Schoolyard Ornithology Resource Project

9618945 Bonney校园鸟类学资源项目(SORP)是康奈尔鸟类学实验室(Lab)、TERC、康奈尔大学教育部和国家奥杜邦协会(National Audubon Society)共同合作的项目，将设计、实地测试、评估和传播一套资源包，帮助教师在课堂上实施国家鸟类研究项目。在国家科学标准的基础上，SORP将为教师提供持续的机会，以提高他们的科学内容知识和过程技能，以及他们将科学探究带入课堂的能力。SORP还将使教师能够开展其他依赖于收集和分析真实数据的项目。最后，通过与国家奥杜邦协会的合作，SORP将为教师提供一种机制，让他们接受社区成员的课堂指导，这些成员熟悉鸟类学、自然历史和基于互联网的技术，并接受过与中小学教师合作的专门培训。SORP建立在NSF早期支持的几个项目的基础上：FeederWatch项目；PigeonWatch项目；康奈尔鸟巢盒子网络；以及新的课堂FeederWatch；在这个项目中，数千名参与者，其中许多是学生，将仔细收集的数据发送到实验室进行分析和发布。SORP产品将包括：*资源手册和样本讲习班，重点是提高教师在以下方面的教学知识：1)鸟类学-鸟类识别；鸟类解剖、生理和行为；结构和功能的互补性；鸟类系统；鸟类的重要性及其在环境互动中的作用；鸟类多样性和适应；以及2)科学过程技能-提问；设计和进行调查；收集、记录和分析数据；交流发现和解释；提出新问题。*教师评估，使用课堂结果来衡量进展。*标准作业程序主页和实践领域将包括在讲习班期间和之后探索数据输入和检索、电子邮件通信和数据分析的机会。它还将包括关于科学内容和教学方法的原创和热点链接的资源，以帮助教师扩展他们的知识和技能。将在实验室和全国各地的培训中心，包括国家奥杜邦社会中心，为希望在课堂上实施鸟类研究和其他探究性探索的教师举办研讨会。将提供网络课程，帮助那些更与世隔绝并希望在教学中使用科学数据收集的教师。

9618945 Bonney The Schoolyard Ornithology Resource Project (SORP), a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Lab), TERC, the Cornell University Department of Education, and the National Audubon Society, will design, field test, evaluate, and disseminate a resource package to help teachers implement national bird research projects in their classrooms. Based on the National Science Standards, SORP will offer teachers ongoing opportunities to improve their science content knowledge and processes skills, as well as, their ability to bring scientific inquiry to their classroom. SORP will also empower teachers to undertake other projects that rely on the collection and analysis of real data. Finally, through collaboration with the National Audubon Society, SORP will provide a mechanism for teachers to receive classroom-based mentorship from community members knowledgeable in ornithology, natural history, and Internet-based technology, and specially trained to work with elementary and middle school teachers. SORP builds on several earlier NSF-supported projects: Project FeederWatch; Project PigeonWatch; the Cornell Nest Box Network; and the new Classroom FeederWatch; in which thousands of participants, many of them students, send carefully gathered data to the Lab for analysis and publication. SORP products will include: * A Resource Manual with sample workshops that focus on improving teachers' content knowledge in 1) ornithology-bird identification; bird anatomy, physiology, and behavior; the complementary nature of structure and function; bird systems; the importance of birds and their role in environmental interactions; bird diversity and adaptation; and 2) science process skills-questioning; designing and conducting an investigation; collecting, recording, and analyzing data; communicating findings and explanations; asking new questions. * Teacher assessments that use classroom outcomes to measure progress. * A SORP Home Page and Practice Area that w ill include opportunities for exploring data entry and retrieval, e-mail communication, and data analysis both during and after workshops. It will also include resources, both original and hot-linked, on both science content and pedagogy, to help teachers extend their knowledge and skills. Workshops will be held at the Lab and at training centers across the country, including National Audubon Society Centers, for teachers wishing to implement bird studies and other inquiry-based explorations into their classrooms. Netcourses will be offered to help those teachers who are more isolated and want to include the use of scientific data gathering in their instruction.