Shared Air: Air Quality Curriculum for Middle and High Schools

地球科学中的环境问题可以用来培养学生的科学能力和理解力，并与许多国家科学标准密切相关。共享空气项目的目标是将学生与他们的大气环境联系起来，为他们提供制作空气如何被人类行为共享和修改的模型的经验，并通过他们对大气系统如何工作的理解向他们介绍自然规律。这些活动包括：(1)通过增加综合协作和数据分析工具，加强初始软件和课程设计；(2)向美国中西部受邀的志愿者教室实施课程和软件包，以及(3)评估其作为中学生探索大气环境的基于项目的学习工具的使用情况，以及(4)向传统和基于互联网的出版界介绍，以促进随后几年制定的计划的自给自足。学生们将使用一种基于密歇根大学最初开发的模型的增强软件工具来确定他们的空气去过哪里，并与其他参与者在空气质量穿越全国的过程中与其他参与者进行比较。

0085552SamsonEnvironmental issues in the geosciences can be used to develop student abilities and understanding in the sciences and are germane to a number of the National Science Standards. It is the goal of the Shared Air project to connect students to their atmospheric environment, offer them experience in making models of how air is shared and modified by human actions, and introduce them to laws of nature through their understanding of how the atmospheric system works. The activities include: (1) Enhancement of an initial software and curriculum design with the addition of integrated collaborative and data analysis tools, (2) Implementation of curriculum and software package to an invited and volunteer base of classrooms in the Midwestern United States, and (3) Evaluation of its use as a project-based learning tool for middle and high-school students for exploration of the atmospheric environment, and (4) Presentation to traditional and Internet-based publishing communities to facilitate the self-sufficiency of the developed program in subsequent years. Students will use an enhanced software tool based on a model originally developed at the University of Michigan to determine where their air has been and to compare observations with other participants along the path of the air quality elsewhere as it traverses the country.