Teachers on the Leading Edge: 2005 Teacher Workshop

该奖项支持为前沿教师计划的发展举办的研讨会。太平洋西北部是开发创新的地球科学教师专业发展计划的最佳地点，这些计划使教师能够更直接地将课堂学习与地点联系起来，并展示地球科学与日常生活的相关性。前沿教师(TOTLE)是一个专业发展计划，旨在吸引K-12教师及其学生参与太平洋西北活动大陆边缘的地质和地球物理，太平洋西北活动大陆边缘是北美的前沿。前沿教师将邀请K-12教师实地研究太平洋西北地区的板块边缘地质，其过去和现在的板块构造过程，以及这一地质遗产的社会影响，从了解气候变化到潜在的地质灾害。通过活动大陆边缘地质学的问题解决方法，教师将获得地质调查的经验和协议，区域地质地质感，吸引学生学习“他们的地质学”的能力，以及对地质学家如何通过EarthScope等项目发展我们目前的理解状态和推动知识前沿的欣赏。方案主题包括：(1)通过火山活动和地体吸积，从大地震到大陆建造的会聚边缘过程；(2)利用John Day化石床调查3000万年来的动植物演替及古气候变化的地球系统科学；(3)地球物理研究，阐明树木覆盖的景观下的地质情况，介绍EarthScope的USArray和板块边界观测站实验；以及(4)地质灾害，说明在我们大陆的前沿生活的一些方面。一个指导原则是使K-12教师的邀请函、可访问性和实用性更强，这样他们就可以将太平洋西北地质学带给不同教育水平的地球科学学习者。

This award supports a workshop for development of the Teachers on the Leading Edge program. The Pacific Northwest is a prime location for developing innovative Earth Science teacher professional development programs that empower teachers to connect classroom learning more directly to place and demonstrate the relevance of Earth Science to everyday life. Teachers on the Leading Edge (TOTLE) is a professional development program designed to engage K-12 teachers and their students in the geology and geophysics of the Pacific Northwest active continental margin, the leading edge of North America. Teachers on the Leading Edge will engage K-12 teachers in field study of plate margin geology in the Pacific Northwest, its past and present plate tectonic processes, and the societal implications of this geologic heritage, from understanding climate change to potential geologic hazards. Through a problem-solving approach to active continental margin geology, TOTLE teachers will gain experience and protocols for geologic inquiry, a regional geologic sense of place, the ability to engage students in learning "their geology", and appreciation for how geologists developed our current state of understanding and are advancing frontiers of knowledge through projects like EarthScope. Program themes include: (1) Convergent margin processes from great earthquakes to continent building through volcanism and terrane accretion; (2) Earth System Science using the John Day Fossil Beds to investigate a 30-million-year record of faunal and floral succession and paleoclimate changes; (3) geophysical studies that illuminate the geology beneath the tree-covered landscape and provide an introduction to EarthScope's USArray and Plate Boundary Observatory experiments; and (4) geologic hazards as aspects of living on the leading edge of our continent. A guiding principle is to make TOTLE invitational, accessible, and useful to K-12 teachers so they can carry Pacific Northwest geology to learners of Earth Science at a wide range of educational levels.