Visualization Learning Environments for Teaching Inquiry and Earth Science Concepts: A Model for Improving Earth Science Teaching (MODEST)

用于教学探究和地球科学概念的可视化学习环境：改进地球科学教学的模式这个项目开发了一个改进地球科学小学教师准备的试点模式，可扩展到更广泛的系统变化。该模型包括一个框架，用于在本科理科课程中实施可视化学习环境(模拟、建模和真实数据集的图像)，以构建基于探究的学习。这一试点模式是基于对北科罗拉多大学教授的小学教师准备科学课程--科学探究原理--使用可视化学习环境进行了为期18个月的纵向研究。纵向研究对于评估可视化学习环境对内容素养和探究技能发展的长期影响至关重要。该项目对地球系统教育数字图书馆(DLESE)的评估部分作出了重大贡献，作为DLESE评估器工具包的测试场，该工具包是评估利用探究式活动的活动和课程的方法和协议的工具。教授通识教育科学课程的教师可以将该项目创建的模型应用于他们的课堂。

ABSTRACTVisualization Learning Environments for Teaching Inquiry and Earth Science Concepts: A Model for Improving Earth Science TeachingThis project develops a pilot model for improving elementary teacher preparation in earth sciences, scalable for broader systematic change. The model consists of a framework for implementing visualization learning environments (simulations, modeling, and imagery of real data sets) in undergraduate science courses for the purpose of constructing inquiry-based learning. The pilot model is based on an eighteen-month longitudinal study on the use of visualization learning environments in an elementary teacher preparation science course taught at the University of Northern Colorado, Principles of Scientific Inquiry.. The longitudinal study is crucial in assessing the long-term impact of visualization learning environments on content literacy and inquiry skill development. The project contributes significantly to the evaluation section of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) as a beta test site for DLESE's Evaluator Tool-kit, an instrument for methods and protocols for assessing activities and courses that utilize inquiry-based activities. Faculty teaching general education science courses could adapt the model created by this project for use in their classes.