Exploring Visualization Strategies for Geoscience Education

Ruscher0331222EXPLORES !（探索和学习环境卫星的运作和资源！）始于1992年的佛罗里达州教育基金。Paul Ruscher教授和Kevin Kloesel教授（后者现在在俄克拉何马州气候调查中心工作）与来自佛罗里达州的30名教师一起启动了这个项目，他们实施了NOAA（美国国家海洋和大气管理局）的直接读出计划。该计划包括在学校安装气象卫星接收站，使用硬件（天线、模拟/数字转换器、无线电接收机、个人电脑）和软件（卫星跟踪、图像处理），或通过万维网（WWW）分发实时卫星数据的纯软件选项。该项目非常成功，到2000年，全州230多所学校拥有活跃的气象卫星接收站，并在整个课程中使用。在本学年期间，国家每年继续提供资金。此外，来自其他州（乔治亚州、蒙大拿州、阿拉斯加州、密歇根州）的选定教师也选择参加该计划。在制定了可以开发新课程的框架并将其纳入阳光州（佛罗里达州）科学标准（4S）之后，一些教师开始着手实施国家科学教育标准（NSES）。随着人们对计算机、图像和实时数据的兴趣在探究式科学课堂上的扩展，《探索！Project提供了新方法与基于图像的应用程序的独特组合，适合在全国范围内进行扩展。这个项目引领了探索！并为教师提供遵循州和国家指导方针的完整课程单元，并在大学、NASA和NOAA中心纳入卫星和热带气象学科学。该项目的范围还包括气象卫星、NOAA和GOES之外的天基雷达和卫星图像。课程光盘现在在探索！作为这项工作的一部分，佛罗里达州的卫星项目将通过dleses在全国范围内使用，就像我们对美国气象卫星项目的整个更新历史一样。此外，来自佛罗里达州迈阿密/戴德县的20名骨干教师已被招募参加一个名为“在课堂上使用地球科学图像”的在线课程，该课程由FSU分布式远程学习办公室和气象系提供，以帮助开发和测试作为我们教师发展的一部分开发的所有新教育材料。将根据以下天基平台的图像开发教育材料：- NOAA极地轨道气象卫星- GOES地球静止气象卫星- Landsat地球资源卫星- Terra/Aqua地球资源/大气卫星上的MODIS -海风卫星上的QuikSCAT。此外，正在开发材料以更好地理解来自nexrad阵列或WSR 88D多普勒雷达的雷达图像。所有材料的开发都考虑到我们参与的教师的效用；然而，我们也认识到需要使它们更广泛地可用和相关，因此，所有材料也正在开发中，以提交给dese，供任何中学和中学地球科学教师使用。

Ruscher0331222EXPLORES! (EXPloring and Learning the Operations and Resources of Environmental Satellites!) began with state of Florida educational funding in 1992. Professors Paul Ruscher and Kevin Kloesel (the latter now at the Oklahoma Climatological Survey) started the project with 30 teachers from Florida, who implemented the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Direct Readout program. This program involved the installation of weather satellite receiving stations at schools, using hardware (antenna, analog/digital converter, radio receiver, personal computer) and software (satellite tracking, image processing), or a software-only option for distribution of live satellite data via the World Wide Web (WWW). The program was successful enough that by 2000, over 230 schools statewide now have active weather satellite receiving stations, utilized across the curriculum. State funding has continued on an annual basis through the present academic year. In addition, selected teachers from other states (Georgia, Montana, Alaska, Michigan) have also elected to participate in the program. After developing frameworks within which new curricula could be developed and incorporated into the Sunshine State (Florida) Science Standards (4S), some teachers began working on implementation with the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Intellectual Merits With the expansion of interest in computers, imagery, and real-time data in inquiry-based science classrooms, the EXPLORES! project provides a unique combination of new approaches with imagery-based applications that are suitable for expansion in a national effort. This project leads the availability of EXPLORES! into the nation's schools, and provides a complete curriculum unit for teachers which follows state and national guidelines, and incorporates science in satellite and tropical meteorology at University, NASA, and NOAA centers. The scope of the project also includes space-based radar and satellite imagery beyond the weather satellites, NOAA and GOES. A CD-ROM of curricula now in use in the EXPLORES! program in Florida will be available through DLESE for nationwide use as part of the effort, as is our entire updated history of the U. S. weather satellite program. In addition, a cadre of twenty teachers from Miami/Dade County, Florida has been recruited to participate in an online course entitled "Using Geoscience Imagery in the Classroom", offered through the Office of Distributed Distance Learning and Department of Meteorology at FSU to help develop and test all new educational materials developed as part of our teacher development. Broader Impacts of Proposed Work Educational materials will be developed based on imagery from the following space-based platforms: - NOAA polar orbiting weather satellites - GOES geostationary weather satellites - Landsat earth resource satellites - MODIS aboard the Terra/Aqua earth resource/atmosphere satellites - QuikSCAT aboard the SeaWinds satellite Further, materials are being developed for better comprehension of radar imagery from the array of NEXRADs, or WSR 88D Doppler radars. All materials are being developed with utility of our participating teachers in mind; however, we are also be cognizant of the need to make them more widely available and relevant, and therefore all materials are also being developed for submission to DLESE, for use by any middle and secondary Earth science teacher.