IPY: Teachers' Domain -- Polar Sciences

WGBH教育基金会正在通过开发和试点测试相关媒体资源的数字图书馆原型，支持K-12教师和学生了解当前极地研究工作的重点、发现和影响。该项目整合了与2007-08国际极地年（IPY）相关的拟议研究、教育和外展活动，利用北极和南极地区的内在吸引力，教授相关科学问题及其与地球系统的相关性。该倡议建立并扩展了WGBH的教师领域（www.teachersdomain.org）的权力、范围和已建立的用户基础，该领域是美国国家科学基金会国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL）的特色门户。这个屡获殊荣的在线服务目前提供了近1000个专门为K-12教育工作者选择和制作的带注释的富媒体资源，这些资源是根据生命、物理和地球/空间科学中常用的课程主题组织的。新的“极地科学”收集原型将包括视频片段、互动活动和其他丰富的媒体，这些媒体来自WGBH、PBS和参与极地研究的广泛组织、机构、大学和其他媒体，所有这些都完全在教师领域模型中进行了背景化（例如，背景文章、标准相关性、课程计划等）。作为IPY学期期间和之后开发的额外基于媒体的教育资源的平台，该原型集还将包括一个新的“引导探索”组件，该组件以多媒体资源为特色，这些资源是通过美国北极研究联盟（ARCUS）的教师和研究人员探索与合作（TREC）计划进行的实地研究的一部分。

The WGBH Educational Foundation is supporting K-12 teachers and students in learning about the focus, findings and implications of current research efforts in polar regions by developing and pilot testing the prototype of a digital library collection of relevant media-based resources. The project integrates with proposed research, education and outreach activities associated with the International Polar Year 2007-08 (IPY), leveraging the inherent appeal of the Arctic and Antarctic regions to teach about related science issues and their relevance to the Earth system. This initiative builds upon and expands the power, scope and established user base of WGBH's Teacher's' Domain (www.teachersdomain.org), a featured portal in NSF's National Science Digital Library (NSDL). This award-winning online service currently presents nearly 1,000 annotated rich-media resources selected and produced specifically for K-12 educators, organized by commonly taught curriculum topics in the Life, Physical and Earth/Space Sciences. The new "Polar Sciences" collection prototype will include video segments, interactive activities and other rich-media drawn from the archives of WGBH, PBS and a wide range of organizations, agencies, universities and other media outlets involved in polar studies, all fully contextualized in the Teachers' Domain model (e.g., with background essays, standards correlations, lesson plans, etc.). Structured to serve as a platform for additional media-based educational resources developed during and after the course of the IPY term, this prototype collection will also include a new "guided exploration" component that featuring multi-media resources produced as part of field studies conducted through the Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating (TREC) program at the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS).