Get WET Observatory: Implementing a Fluid Learning Experience for Undergraduates

Get WET Observatory：为本科生提供流畅的学习体验

• 批准号: 0536136
• 负责人: Sara Rathburn
• 金额: $ 13.6万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0536136&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Get; WET; Observatory; Implementing; Fluid

Geology (42)The Get WET (GroundWater Education and Teaching) Observatory is enhancing undergraduate geology courses for majors and non-majors by providing hands-on, field-based learning opportunities in surface and groundwater processes. The Observatory consists of six groundwater-monitoring wells adjacent to a perennial stream on campus property. The wells augment two existing groundwater irrigation wells and a surface monitoring station thus providing spatially diverse surface and groundwater coverage at the Observatory. The Observatory is directly affecting approximately 500 majors and non-majors per year, with new learning materials being developed within six courses utilizing the Get WET facility. Introductory geology laboratories of no more than 15 students, working in teams of three or four, provide small group learning and discussion opportunities. Student learning in the Introductory Geology Laboratory is being evaluated through pre- and post-assessments of student conceptions regarding groundwater processes. The Observatory is also being integrated into the four-year major and is enhancing student learning of the complexities of surface and groundwater interactions and subsurface geophysics.Public dissemination of the educational data set is greatly increasing the utility of the Observatory beyond its physical boundary on the CSU campus. Collaboration between three departments and a research and outreach center is building a community of scholars versed in teaching groundwater-related subjects.Outreach initiatives associated with the Observatory include collaborating with local middle and high school science teachers, conducting two teacher education workshops training teachers in surface and groundwater interactions, developing field exercises for middle and high school students, and providing TA support for instructional assistance.

地质学（42）获取水（地下水教育和教学）观测站正在通过提供地面和地下水过程的实践和实地学习机会，加强专业和非专业的本科地质学课程。 观测站由六个地下水监测威尔斯井组成，毗邻校园内的一条常年溪流。 这些威尔斯井增加了两个现有的地下水灌溉威尔斯井和一个地面监测站，从而在观测站提供了空间多样的地面和地下水覆盖范围。 该观察站每年直接影响大约500个专业和非专业，利用Get WET设施在六门课程内开发新的学习材料。 介绍性地质实验室不超过15名学生，在三个或四个团队工作，提供小组学习和讨论的机会。 通过对学生关于地下水过程的概念进行事前和事后评估，对学生在地质学入门实验室的学习进行评估。 该观测站也被纳入四年制专业，并正在加强学生对地表和地下水相互作用和地下水物理学复杂性的学习，教育数据集的公开传播大大增加了观测站在科罗拉多州立大学校园物理边界之外的效用。三个部门和一个研究和外展中心之间的合作正在建立一个精通地下水相关学科教学的学者社区。与天文台相关的外展计划包括与当地初中和高中科学教师合作，举办两个教师教育研讨会，培训教师了解地表水和地下水的相互作用，为初中和高中学生开发实地练习，并为教学援助提供TA支持。