IPY STEM Polar Connections

IPY STEM Polar Connections是一项课程开发和专业发展计划。它包括寄宿暑期学校，为参与同事专业发展的在职教师提供学年在线交流。在每个暑期研习班期间，教师将被介绍到STEM极地连接模块，强调科学探究的过程，并将探索各种行之有效的有效教学技术，包括基于探究的教学、合作学习和对学生学习的形成性评估方法。马萨诸塞州大学的暑期学院将旨在促进STEM教师对极地地区的特点和过程的了解，以便他们能够有效地实地测试课程模块，并在地方、地区和国家层面传播模块的最终版本。STEM极地连接模块的活动将与国家科学教育标准以及三个参与地区每个州的国家标准保持一致。这些活动将强调促进社会了解极地地区自然环境和生态系统变化的性质和可能原因，以及这些变化与其他自然环境和生态系统的关系的价值。STEM极地连接模块的跨学科活动也将旨在让初中生熟悉极地研究的多种途径、极地研究中国际合作的范围以及他们将参与这项研究的机会。这些模块将利用几种格式，以最大限度地扩大初中和高中STEM课程的范围，这些模块可以有效地整合到这些课程中。教师将积极参与制作STEM极连接模块的最终版本的过程，该模块最初由STEM极连接工作人员起草。一个强有力的教育研究部分将评估为开展研究提供当地和区域背景的有效性，以便了解地球上受极地自然环境和生态系统影响并与之相互作用的全球系统。

IPY STEM Polar Connections is a curriculum development and professional development program. It includes residential summer institutes with academic year online communication for in-service teachers who are involved in professional development of their colleagues. During each summer institute, teachers will be introduced to sets of STEM Polar Connections Modules that will emphasize the process of scientific inquiry and will explore a variety of proven techniques for effective teaching, including inquiry-based teaching, cooperative learning, and methods for formative assessment of student learning. The summer institutes at UMass will be designed to advance the knowledge that STEM teachers have of the characteristics of and processes that occur in Polar Regions so that they can effectively field test curriculum modules and disseminate final versions of the modules at the local, regional, and national level. The activities of the STEM Polar Connections Modules will be aligned with the National Science Education Standards and with state standards for each state in the three participating regions. The activities will emphasize the value of advancing society's understanding of the nature and possible causes of changes in the physical environment and ecosystems of the Polar Regions and the relationship of those changes with other physical environments and ecosystems. The interdisciplinary activities of STEM Polar Connections Modules will be also designed to acquaint middle and high school students with the many avenues of polar research, the extent of international collaborations in polar research, and opportunities they will have to participate in that research. The modules will utilize several formats in order to maximize the range of middle and high school STEM programs into which the modules can effectively be integrated. Teachers will be actively engaged in the process of producing final versions of the STEM Polar Connections Modules initially drafted by the STEM Polar Connections staff. A strong educational research component will assess the effectiveness of providing local and regional contexts for conducting research that results in an understanding of Earth's global systems that are influenced by and interact with the physical environments and ecosystems of Polar Regions.