Flatirons Outdoor Classroom Summer Workshop

申请资金支持2003年夏季在Flatirons户外教室举办的研讨会，为科罗拉多州博尔德市博尔德山谷学区的选定教师提供支持。16名教师（来自该地区的小学、初中和高中）将在flatiron Outdoor的教室里呆上两周。上午，教师们在当地专家的带领下，参加地质学、水文学、植物学、生物学、地理学、水政治、伦理学等方面的讲座和讨论。下午，老师们将以小组形式为中小学生设计课程材料，将上午的课程内容与这个户外空间独特的跨学科能力联系起来。讲习班的目标是：1)为地区教师提供地球与环境科学、科学政策和选定的人文学科领域的培训，使他们能够设计有效利用Flatirons户外教室的课程材料。2)通过这样做，创建跨学科教育教育的教学材料，可以以各种形式(如出版物、会议演讲、博物馆展览、还有互联网。3)传播Flatirons户外教室的教学可能性，以便这种模式可以在全国社区进行调整和采用。

Funding is requested in support of a summer, 2003 workshop at the Flatirons Outdoor Classroom, for selected teachers within the Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado. Sixteen teachers (drawn from elementary, middle, and high schools in the district) would spend two weeks at the Flatirons Outdoor classroom. In the mornings, teachers would participate in lectures and discussion on topics in geology, hydrology, botany, biology, geography, water politics, and ethics, led by local experts in these respective fields. In the afternoon, teachers will work in teams to devise curricular materials for primary and secondary school students that relate the material covered in the mornings to the distinctive interdisciplinary capacities of this outdoor space.The goals of the workshop would be: 1) to provide district teachers with training in the Earth and environmental sicneces, science policy, and selected areas of the humanities so that they could design curricular materials that make effective use of the Flatirons Outdoor Classroom. 2) Through doing so, to create pedagogical materials on interdisciplinary educational education that can be disseminated regionally and nationally in a variety of formats (such as publications, conference presentations, museum exhibits, and the internet. 3) To disseminate accounts of the pedagogical possibilities of the Flatirons Outdoor Classroom, so that this model may be adapted and adopted by communities nationwide.