Development of Alaska Earth Systems Field School

地球系统科学（40）这个项目是为了满足本科生和K-12教师的需求，在地球系统现场学校引入了更多的实践、探究、实地导向、跨学科的科学课程。这个为期六周的夏季课程在阿拉斯加的亚北极和北极环境中，使用三个为期两周的模块，重点关注威廉王子湾、楚加奇山脉和德纳里国家公园等地的沿海、北方和苔原生态系统。田野学院正在激发跨学科、实践性科学的新激情，并正在促进正在进行的教师团队合作和跨科学学科和部门的合作。从适应项目中吸取的经验教训正通过互联网和万花筒项目网络传播。适应哥伦比亚大学地球系统现场学校提供了一个跨学科的，以探究为基础的学习示范，证明模式。这种模式教导学生以一种综合的方式理解景观，将生态学和地质学的学科结合在一起，并见证它们之间的相互依赖。学生通过收集实地数据并使用它来测试模型，建立自己的生态系统过程的概念和数值模型。他们正在学习绘图、识别、描述和分析的技术，所有这些都是在理解当前环境问题的背景下进行的。地球系统实地学校的概念框架将于2001年夏季试行。2002年夏季将提供为期六周的完整课程。该项目建立在现有的课程设置、研究项目和社区合作伙伴关系的基础上。除了将课程从沙漠转移到针叶林之外，该项目还大力调整课程，以更好地服务于K-12教师候选人（以及一般的非科学专业），并使他们具备可转移的科学素养和科学热情。该项目也正在进行重组，以增加在阿拉斯加大学学生中占很大比例的大龄学生，以及在pre -12和文科学生群体中代表性不足的阿拉斯加原住民的入学机会。

Earth Systems Science (40) This project is responding to the needs of undergraduates and K-12 teachers by introducing a more hands-on, inquiry-based, field-oriented, interdisciplinary science courses into an Earth Systems Field School. This 6-week summer course in the Subarctic and Arctic environments of Alaska uses three two-week modules focusing on coastal, boreal, and tundra ecosystems in sites such as Prince William Sound, the Chugach Mountains, and Denali National Park. The Field School is generating new excitement about interdisciplinary, hands-on science and is promoting ongoing faculty teamwork and collaboration across science disciplines and departments. The lessons learned from the adaptation project are being disseminated over the internet and through the Project Kaleidoscope network. Adapting the Columbia Earth Systems Field School provides an exemplary, proven model of interdisciplinary, inquiry-based learning. This model teaches students to understand landscapes in an integrated fashion, by using the disciplines of ecology and geology together and witnessing their dependence on each other. Students build their own conceptual and numerical models of ecosystem processes by collecting field data and using it to test models. They are learning techniques for mapping, identification, description, and analysis, all within the context of understanding current environmental problems. The conceptual framework of the Earth Systems Field School is being piloted the summer of 2001. The full six-week program is being offered in summer 2002. The program builds on existing course offerings, research programs, and community partnerships. In addition to transporting the curriculum from desert to taiga, the project is vigorously adapting the curriculum to better serve K-12 teacher candidates (and non-science majors generally) and equipping them with transferable science literacy and science enthusiasm. The program is also being restructured to increase its accessibility to older students who make up a large proportion of the University of Alaska's student body and to Alaska Natives who are underrepresented in the preK-12 and liberal arts student populations.