Investigating Earth Science in Urban Schoolyards: An Outreach and Professional Development Model for Elementary Schools

在城市校园里调查地球科学：小学的拓展和专业发展模式雪城大学的这个项目将通过将大学地球科学家与城市小学的学生和教师联系起来，创建一个拓展和专业发展模式。他们将共同创建、教授和传播地球科学课程。这些课程将使用校园和步行距离的城市公园作为实地实验室，让学生调查当地的生态系统。这些课程将与地球和其他基础科学的标准保持一致，并整合数学和语言艺术。本计画的目标是教导小学教师地球系统科学与探究式的地球科学教学方法，并提高城市小学生对地球科学的能力与热情，以及对当地环境的欣赏。该项目将指导大学科学家和科学教育工作者如何有效地培训小学教师的地球系统科学。预期这个项目将成为在城市青年中促进实地地球科学的典范，其中大多数是代表性不足的少数民族，包括残疾人。

Investigating Earth Science in Urban Schoolyards: An Outreach and Professional Development Model for Elementary SchoolsThis Syracuse University project will create an outreach and professional development model by linking university geoscientists to urban elementary school students and teachers. Together they will create, teach and disseminate Earth science lessons. These lessons will use schoolyards and walking distance urban parks as field laboratories for students to investigate their local ecosystems. The lessons will be aligned with the standards for Earth and other basic sciences, as well as integrate mathematics and language arts. The goals of this project are to teach elementary teachers an Earth System Science and inquiry approach to teaching geoscience and to increase urban elementary students' aptitude and enthusiasm for geoscience as well as their appreciation for their local environment. The project will mentor university scientists and science educators on effective ways to train elementary teachers in Earth System Science. It is expected that this project will serve as a model to promote field-based Earth science among urban youth, most of whom are underrepresented minorities, including persons with disabilities.