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

2006年8月1日至4日将举办一次讲习班，以确定EarthScope教学材料应涉及的重要主题，并使科学和教育界成员参与为地球科学二级课堂编写教学材料。该讲习班将作为一个试点项目，促使主要利益攸关方(科学家、教师、课程制定者、数据提供者和EarthScope伙伴组织)结成团队，以卡斯卡迪亚为主题编写高质量的教育材料，卡斯卡迪亚是EarthScope高度关注的一个重点地理区域。这次研讨会的一个主要成果将是有效地介绍复杂的科学原理，将地球范围科学纳入教育社区，并将来自科学和教育社区的个人聚集在一起，参与地球范围的教育和推广工作。讲习班结束后，TERC的课程开发人员将编写一个模块，通过地球探索工具书(EET)进行传播。此外，还将编写讲习班的执行报告，以协助今后在不同区域发展和实施类似的地球范围教育讲习班。为这一讲习班制定了详细的评估计划，包括在讲习班期间和之后收集数据，内容包括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情况以及学生对编写的教学材料的理解。联合国志愿人员组织的板块边界观测核(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.