Earth Links: Using Scientific Inquiry to Teach Geoscience and Mathematics

地球链接：使用科学探究教授地球科学和数学伦纳德0331154这笔赠款允许费城坦普尔大学的研究人员两年时间实施一项计划，向市中心小学年级的教师教授地球科学和数学。该计划每年帮助十名准中小学教师实施地球科学课程，并将其作为研究地球科学问题的跳板。坦普尔大学的职前教师调查少数民族高危人群的地球系统，在5到8年级实施课程，参加实地课程，并在课程过程中接受指导。其中一项是由学生实习生对少数族裔校外项目中基于探究的课程要素进行实地测试。然后，学生们将在他们的学生教学体验中，将这些经验带到当地的5至8年级教室。在此期间，预科学生还必须参加以实地为基础的地球科学课程。在第二年，这些教师将通过他们自己的课堂实施材料进行跟踪，并对项目的有效性进行外部评估。这笔赠款让少数族裔人口接触到一个强烈以社区为基础的科学计划，并向学校儿童和一批积极进取的年轻教师提供地球科学的介绍。

Earth Links: Using Scientific Inquiry to Teach Geoscience and MathematicsLeonard0331154This grant allows researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia two years to implement an program to teach geosciences and mathematics to teachers of inner city elementary grades. The program helps ten prospective elementary and middle grade teachers per year to implement a geoscience curriculum and to use it as a springboard to investigate Earth science problems. Preservice teachers at Temple University investigate Earth Systems with minority at-risk populations, implement the curriculum in 5th to 8th grades, take a field-based course, and are mentored over the course of the program.Year one involves a field-test by student interns of the "Investigating Earth Systems" inquiry-based curriculum elements in out-of-school programs for minority populations. The students will then take this experience with them into local 5th to 8th grade classrooms during their student teaching experience. The preservice students are also required to take a field-based Earth sciences course during this period. During year two, these teachers will be followed through their own classroom implementation of the materials, and the project will be externally evaluated for effectiveness. This grant exposes a subset of minority populations to a strongly community-based program in science, and provides an introduction to geosciences to both the school children and a set of strongly motivated young teachers.