Enhanced Earth system teaching through ReaL Earth Inquiry

通过真实地球探究增强地球系统教学

• 批准号: 0733303
• 负责人: Robert Ross
• 金额: $ 176.36万
• 依托单位: Paleontological Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0733303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhanced; Earth; system; teaching; through

The ReaL (Regional and Local) Earth Inquiry project empowers teachers to employ real-world local and regional Earth system science (ESS) in the classroom. Earth systems science teachers need the pedagogic background, the content, and the support that enables them to engage students in asking real questions about their own communities. The project is developing online "Teacher-Friendly Guides" (resources) that make each of these ends more readily attainable and deepen student understandings of ESS. Tools include basic content that enlarges upon textbook principles by illustrating them in rocks, landforms, water systems, climate, and hazards specific to their region, empowering teachers to make sense of these features in light of their own knowledge of basic earth system processes and the geologic and climatic history of the region. Through Virtual Fieldwork Experiences (VFEs), the project expands classrooms beyond their four walls and engages students in inquiry. VFEs provide a framework for engagement in genuine inquiry, driven by the question "Why does this place look the way it does?" This question invites open-ended investigation of multiple Earth systems and their interactions. Teachers are able to access information in many ways, through printed materials, a website that encourages easy usage and downloads, and a database of VFEs from all over the country, which can be taken and adapted for any classroom. Early evaluation of content and pedagogic form occurs through interaction with teachers at small regional workshops. Contact is maintained over the life of the grant, from initial observations to actual classroom use of Guides and VFE's. Additionally, the project is working with the American Institutes for Research, creating a "usability evaluation" of the website navigation and identifying any issues for teachers trying to use the on-line materials as they develop lesson plans.

ReaL（区域和地方）地球探究项目使教师能够在课堂上运用真实世界的本地和区域地球系统科学（ESS）。地球系统科学教师需要教学背景、内容和支持，使他们能够吸引学生提出关于他们自己社区的真正问题。该项目正在开发在线“教师友好指南”（资源），使这些目标更容易实现，并加深学生对ESS的理解。工具包括基本内容，通过对其所在地区的岩石、地貌、水系统、气候和灾害进行说明，扩大了教科书原理，使教师能够根据自己对基本地球系统过程和该地区地质和气候历史的了解来理解这些特征。通过虚拟实地工作体验（VFEs），该项目将教室扩展到四面墙之外，并吸引学生参与探究。vfe提供了一个参与真正探究的框架，由“为什么这个地方看起来是这样的？”这个问题驱动？这个问题引发了对多个地球系统及其相互作用的开放式研究。教师可以通过多种方式获取信息，包括印刷材料、鼓励使用和下载的网站，以及全国各地的视频教材数据库，这些教材可以用于任何教室。通过在小型区域讲习班上与教师的互动，对内容和教学形式进行早期评价。从最初的观察到指南和VFE的实际课堂使用，在赠款的整个生命周期内保持联系。此外，该项目正在与美国研究所合作，创建网站导航的“可用性评估”，并为教师在制定课程计划时试图使用在线材料确定任何问题。