Using EarthScope Data in Secondary Classrooms: A Pilot Workshop to Engage Teachers and Scientists in Cascadia Curriculum Development

研讨会将于2006年8月1日至4日举行，以确定EarthScope教学材料应涉及的重要主题，并让科学和教育界的成员参与开发中学地球科学课堂的教学材料。本次研讨会将作为一个试点项目，让主要利益相关者（科学家、教师、课程开发者、数据提供者和EarthScope合作伙伴组织）组成团队，制作关于Cascadia主题的高质量教育材料，Cascadia是EarthScope高度科学兴趣的一个重点地理区域。这次研讨会的一个主要成果将是一个有效地展示复杂科学原理的模型，将地球镜科学融入教育界，并将科学和教育界的个人聚集在一起，参与地球镜的教育和推广工作。研讨会结束后，TERC的课程开发人员将编写一个模块，通过地球探测工具手册（EET）传播。此外，将编写讲习班的执行报告，以协助今后在不同区域发展和执行类似的“地球观测”教育讲习班。为这次讲习班制定了详细的评价计划，包括在讲习班期间和讲习班之后收集关于讲习班对教师和科学家的影响、讲习班的长处和短处、参加者和教师学生的人口统计以及学生对所编写的教学材料的理解情况的数据。UNAVCO的板块边界观测核（PBO核）项目将与前沿教师、地球望远镜办公室、IRIS和TERC合作领导这一倡议。

A workshop will take place from August 1-4, 2006 to identify important topics that EarthScope instructional materials should address and to engage members of the scientific and educational communities in developing instructional materials for secondary Earth science classrooms. This workshop will serve as a pilot project for engaging major stakeholders (scientists, teachers, curriculum developers, data providers, and EarthScope partner organizations) in teams to create quality educational materials on the topic of Cascadia, a focused geographic area of high scientific interest to EarthScope. A major result of this workshop will be a model for effectively presenting complex scientific principles, integrating EarthScope science into the educational community, and bringing individuals from the scientific and educational communities together to engage in EarthScope education and outreach endeavors. Following the workshop, curriculum developers from TERC will prepare one module for dissemination via the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET). In addition, an executive report of the workshop will be prepared to aid in the development and implementation of similar EarthScope educational workshops in different regions in the future. A detailed evaluation plan has been established for this workshop involving data collection during and after the workshop on the impact of the workshop on teachers and scientists, strengths and weaknesses of the workshop, demographics of participants and teachers' student population, and student comprehension of instructional materials produced. The Plate Boundary Observatory Nucleus (PBO Nucleus) project at UNAVCO would lead this initiative in collaboration with Teachers on the Leading Edge, the EarthScope office, IRIS, and TERC.