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

这笔赠款为在密苏里州堪萨斯城举行的为期两周的年度研讨会提供部分支持，该研讨会向大学预科教师介绍天气观测、分析和预报的基础知识，并为他们提供现代教学材料，用于他们自己的课程和他们所在机构的同行培训会议。在过去的十年里，美国气象学会与美国国家气象局合作举办了这些研讨会。一般来说，大约有25名教师参加，他们来自美国各地。目标是提高教师在培养大学预科学生对科学、技术和数学的兴趣和理解方面的有效性。该计划旨在促进教师和科学家之间的工作关系，并鼓励在K-12教室中使用最近的研究成果和网络上提供的世界气象数据流。该奖项支持该项目，为期五年，从2002年开始。

This grant provides partial support for an annual, two-week workshop held in Kansas City, Missouri, which introduces precollege teachers to fundamentals of weather observing, analysis, and forecasting, and equips them with modern instructional material for use in their own courses and in peer-training sessions at their home institutions. These workshops have been held for the past decade by the American Meteorological Society in collaboration with the National Weather Service. Typically, about 25 teachers participate, drawn from all parts of the United States. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of teachers in generating interest and understanding of science, technology, and mathematics among precollege students. The program is designed to promote working relations between teachers and scientists and to encourage the use in K-12 classrooms of recent research findings and the Web-delivered world meteorological data stream. This award supports the program for the five-year period beginning in 2002.