Project ATMOSPHERE: Weather Sensing, Analyzing, and Forecasting Summer Workshops for Teachers

美国气象学会(AMS)成立于1919年，是一个科学和专业机构，旨在促进大气及相关海洋和水文科学信息的发展和传播，并促进其专业应用。大气项目是澳大利亚医学科学院以大气科学研究为基础的综合性国家教师提升计划。它旨在提高教师在激发预科学生对科学、技术和数学的兴趣和理解方面的有效性。多年来，AMS教育计划与美国国家气象局(NWS)合作，为大气科学硕士教师举办了为期两周的年度讲习班。该项目在密苏里州堪萨斯城的NWS培训中心举行。讲习班的目的是提供学习经验，侧重于天气观测、分析和预报方面的进展，研究如何将这些产品用于学校对大气环境的研究，并为受训人员下一学年在其家乡举办课程做好准备。这项提议是请求部分支持将于1999年和2000年夏季为大学前教师举办的讲习班。大气科学司过去为该讲习班提供了部分资金，目前的奖项继续为1999年和2000年夏季提供略高水平的支助。

The American Meterololgical Society (AMS), founded in 1919, is a scientific and professional body which promotes the development and dissemination of information of the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrological sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Project ATMOSPHERE, is the AMS' comprehensive national program of teacher enhancement based on studies in the atmospheric sciences. it is directed toward improving teacher effectiveness in generating interest and understanding in science, technology and mathematics among precollege students. For number of years, the AMS Education Program has run an annual two-week workshop for Master Teachers of Atmospheric Sciences in coordination with the National Weather Service (NWS). The program is held at the NWS Training Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The purpose of the workshop is to provide learning experiences that focus on advances in observing, analyzing and forecasting weather, to examine ways in which the products of these can be employed in school studies of the atmospheric environment and prepare the trainees to conduct sessions in their home areas in the next school year. This proposal is a request for partial support for a workshop for precollege teachers to be held in the summers of 1999 and 2000. The Division of Atmospheric Sciences has provided partial funding for this workshop in the past and the present award continues support of a slightly higher level for the summers of 1999 and 2000.