Teaching Ecosystem Complexity through Field Science Inquiry

通过实地科学探究来教授生态系统的复杂性

• 批准号: 0554379
• 负责人: Marion Dresner
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Portland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0554379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Teaching; Ecosystem; Complexity; through; Field

This four-year project results in a training manual, web-based resources, and training opportunities in field-based ecology for high school teachers. The teacher professional development is led by Professional Development Providers (PDPs), teams of scientists, science educators and experienced teachers who provide in-service teacher training. Some PDP are located at nature centers and similar sites where PDPs engage in ecological research. The training manual provides directions for engaging classroom teachers in real ecological research. The project is based upon prior work by scientists and educators in five Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and is designed to increase teacher content knowledge in ecological concepts, improve their higher level thinking skills and interest more Hispanic students in ecology. To support the latter objective the project's materials are translated into Spanish. Recruitment of teachers who are proficient in Spanish for pilot and field-testing of the materials in Spanish occurs at four of the five sites.

这个为期四年的项目的结果是一个培训手册，基于网络的资源，并在外地为高中教师的生态培训机会。 教师专业发展由专业发展提供者（PDP），科学家，科学教育家和经验丰富的教师团队领导，他们提供在职教师培训。 一些PDP位于自然中心和PDP从事生态研究的类似地点。 培训手册为从事真实的生态研究的课堂教师提供了指导。 该项目是基于科学家和教育工作者在五个长期生态研究（LTER）网站之前的工作，旨在增加教师在生态概念的内容知识，提高他们更高层次的思维能力和兴趣更多的西班牙裔学生在生态学。 为了支持后一个目标，该项目的材料被翻译成西班牙文。 五个地点中有四个征聘了精通西班牙文的教师，对西班牙文教材进行试点和实地测试。