Instructional Equipment for Fieldwork in Physical and Environmental Geography

自然与环境地理实地考察教学设备

• 批准号: 9750871
• 负责人: Timothy Brothers
• 金额: $ 1.85万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2000-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750871&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instructional; Equipment; Fieldwork; Physical; Environmental

This institution serves a nontraditional student population with high proportions of returning adults, part-time students, women, and minorities. Many of these students have little experience with natural environments and little knowledge of science, particularly outside the traditional laboratory setting. The focus of this project is the use of relatively simple instrumentation to introduce a wide spectrum of students to the aims and methods of field science, as practiced in physical and environmental geography. The project is purchasing basic instrumentation sufficient to teach field methods in each of the major subfields of physical/environmental geography, including climatology, hydrology, geomorphology, soils, and biogeography. Field instruction in existing courses, both introductory and advanced, is being expanded. The expanded instruction makes it possible to teach a new course in field methods and to develop nontraditional avenues for geographic field instruction, including interdisciplinary courses with other departments on campus and workshops for teachers of geography in primary and secondary schools. This field training is introducing a diverse array of urban undergraduates to the methods and benefits of field science in natural settings. Moreover, it includes all facets of environment, encouraging students to consider environmental interdependencies and feedbacks. Finally, it is providing applied training to geography majors interested in the environmental positions. *

该机构为非传统学生群体提供服务，其中返校的成年人、兼职学生、女性和少数民族的比例很高。这些学生中的许多人几乎没有自然环境的经验，也没有科学知识，特别是在传统的实验室环境之外。这个项目的重点是使用相对简单的仪器向广泛的学生介绍野外科学的目标和方法，就像在自然和环境地理学中实践的那样。该项目正在购买基本仪器，足以教授自然/环境地理学的每个主要子领域的实地方法，包括气候学、水文学、地貌学、土壤和生物地理学。目前正在扩大现有课程的实地教学，包括入门和高级课程。扩展后的教学可以教授一门新的实地方法课程，并开发非传统的地理实地教学途径，包括与校园其他部门合作的跨学科课程，以及为中小学地理教师举办的讲习班。这种实地培训向城市本科生介绍了在自然环境中实地科学的方法和好处。此外，它包括环境的各个方面，鼓励学生考虑环境的相互依赖性和反馈。最后，它为对环境职位感兴趣的地理专业学生提供应用培训。＊