Flatirons Outdoor Classroom Summer Workshop

请求提供资金，以支助2003年夏季在Flatirons户外教室为科罗拉多博尔德山谷学区选定的教师举办的讲习班。 16名教师（来自该地区的小学、初中和高中）将在熨斗户外教室呆上两周。 上午，教师将参加由当地各领域专家领导的关于地质学、水文学、植物学、生物学、地理学、水政治学和伦理学的讲座和讨论。 下午，教师将以小组为单位，为中小学生设计课程材料，将上午的材料与这个户外空间独特的跨学科能力联系起来。工作坊的目标是：1）为地区教师提供地球和环境科学、科学政策、并选择人文学科的领域，使他们能够设计课程材料，有效地利用熨斗户外教室。2)通过这样做，创建关于跨学科教育的教学材料，可以以各种形式（如出版物、会议介绍、博物馆展览和互联网）在区域和国家传播。3)宣传Flatirons户外教室的教学可能性，以便全国各地的社区可以调整和采用这种模式。

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.