Development of Alaska Earth Systems Field School

阿拉斯加地球系统野外学校的发展

• 批准号: 0088662
• 负责人: Stephen Colt
• 金额: $ 6.9万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-04-15 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0088662&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Alaska; Earth; Systems; Field

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.

地球系统科学（40）这个项目是响应本科生和K-12教师的需求，通过引入更多的动手，基于调查，面向现场，跨学科的科学课程到地球系统实地学校。这个为期6周的阿拉斯加亚北极和北极环境夏季课程使用三个为期两周的模块，重点关注威廉王子湾，楚加奇山脉和德纳利国家公园等地的沿海，北方和苔原生态系统。该领域的学校正在产生新的兴奋跨学科，动手科学，并促进跨学科和科学部门的持续教师团队合作和协作。从适应项目中吸取的经验教训正在通过互联网和万花筒项目网络传播。适应哥伦比亚地球系统实地学校提供了一个示范性的，跨学科的，基于探究的学习模式证明。这种模式教导学生以综合的方式理解景观，同时使用生态学和地质学的学科，并见证它们相互依赖。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。他们正在学习制图，识别，描述和分析的技术，所有这些都在理解当前环境问题的背景下进行。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方案。该计划建立在现有的课程，研究计划和社区合作伙伴关系。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，以更好地为K-12教师候选人（以及一般的非科学专业）服务，并为他们提供可转移的科学素养和科学热情。该计划也正在进行重组，以增加其可及性，以年龄较大的学生谁弥补阿拉斯加的学生团体的大学和阿拉斯加原住民谁是在preK-12和文科学生人口中代表性不足。