Collaborative Research: Teachers on the Leading Edge: Linking K-12 Earth Science Teachers to EarthScope

EarthScope美国阵列和板块边界观测台的仪器目前正在监测太平洋西北部的变形和地震活动。地球科学家正在利用地球镜的数据来增进对我们大陆“前缘”活动大陆边的了解。教师在领先优势（TOTLE）是一个教师专业发展计划，具有太平洋西北地质，相关的地质灾害，和地球科学。TOTLE邀请K-12教师成为使用EarthScope科学的新手地球物理学家，以提高学生对板块构造，地震和海啸以及火山的理解。通过这个项目，TOTLE：（1）介绍120名K-12和社区学院的地球科学教师参加EarthScope项目;（2）使教师沉浸在对活动大陆边缘地质学的探究式研究中;（3）与联合国教科文组织、联合地震研究所的科学教育工作者协调，和地球镜国家办公室开发教学材料，向K-12学生和全国公众传达地球镜科学的奇迹;（4）形成教师-学习者团队，由社区大学讲师领导，促进EarthScope科学融入K-12课程;（5）为地球科学教育工作者提供模板，以建立基于地方的项目，将EarthScope科学与区域地质学联系起来，因为USAray在全国各地的步骤。TOTLE提供了K-12科学教师，大学科学教育工作者和联邦和州政府科学家之间协调的一个例子，以制定一个科学教育计划，保留尖端研究的真实性，同时使科学对K-12教师和学生有吸引力，可访问和有用。

EarthScope USArray and Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) instruments are currently monitoring deformation and seismicity in the Pacific Northwest. Geoscientists are using EarthScope data to advance understanding of the active continental margin at "the leading edge" of our continent. Teachers on the Leading Edge (TOTLE) is a teacher professional development program featuring Pacific Northwest geology, associated geologic hazards, and EarthScope science. TOTLE invites K-12 teachers to become novice geophysicists using EarthScope science to enhance their students' understanding of plate tectonics, earthquakes and tsunamis, and volcanoes. Through this project, TOTLE: (1) introduces 120 K-12 and community college teachers of Earth Science to the EarthScope Project; (2) immerses teachers in inquiry-based studies of active continental margin geology; (3) coordinates with science educators at UNAVCO, the Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology, and the EarthScope National Office in developing instructional materials that convey the wonder of EarthScope science to K-12 learners and the general public nationwide; (4) forms teams of teacher-learners, led by a community college instructor, that promote integration of EarthScope science into the K-12 curriculum; and (5) provides a template for Geoscience educators to build place-based programs that connect EarthScope science with regional geology as USArray steps across the country. TOTLE provides an example of coordination between K-12 science teachers, university science educators, and federal and state government scientists to develop a science education program that preserves the authenticity of cutting-edge research while making that science inviting, accessible, and useful to K-12 teachers and students.