Teachers on the Leading Edge: 2005 Teacher Workshop

该奖项支持教师在前沿计划的发展研讨会。 太平洋西北地区是开发创新的地球科学教师专业发展计划的主要地点，这些计划使教师能够更直接地将课堂学习与地球科学的相关性联系起来。前沿教师（TOTLE）是一个专业发展计划，旨在让K-12教师和他们的学生参与太平洋西北活跃大陆边缘的地质和地球物理学，北美的前沿。教师在前沿将从事K-12教师在西北太平洋板块边缘地质的实地研究，其过去和现在的板块构造过程，以及这种地质遗产的社会影响，从了解气候变化到潜在的地质灾害。通过解决问题的方法，以活跃的大陆边缘地质学，TOTLE教师将获得经验和协议地质调查，地方的区域地质意义，让学生参与学习“他们的地质学”的能力，并赞赏地质学家如何发展我们目前的理解状态，并通过EarthScope等项目推进知识的前沿。方案主题包括：（1）从大地震到通过火山作用和火山增生的大陆建造的会聚边缘过程;（2）地球系统科学，利用约翰戴化石层调查3 000万年来的动物和植物演替记录以及古气候变化;（3）地球物理研究，阐明树下的地质-覆盖的景观，并提供了一个介绍地球镜的USAray和板块边界观测实验;和（4）地质灾害的方面，生活在我们大陆的前沿。一个指导原则是使TOTLE邀请，访问，并有用的K-12教师，使他们能够进行太平洋西北地质学的地球科学的学习者在广泛的教育水平。

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.