Peabody Fellows Earth Science Program

皮博迪研究员地球科学项目是为中学教育工作者提供的一个专业发展机会，该项目专注于解释由建设性和破坏性地质力量造成的地貌。该项目正在制作广泛传播的课程资源，包括课程计划、内容信息、模范学生评估工具、动手样本和实地考察活动。资源开发教师正在与博物馆工作人员和研究人员合作，制作符合国家和州标准的材料，并以当前的研究为基础，鼓励以探究为导向和基于地点的学习。通过暑期学院和全年研讨会，参与的教师将获得这一领域的内容知识，学习如何使用课程材料，发展他们对探究导向和基于地点的教学技术的使用，并增加他们对实地站点的使用。该项目还有一个非正式的社区教育组成部分，为博物馆游客举办家庭活动日，并制作一个“迷你展览”，用于外展项目。项目合作伙伴是纽黑文和西黑文两个城市公立学区，以及南康涅狄格州立大学的六年制认证项目“科学教学与研究研究所”。该项目还与康涅狄格州教育部合作。

The Peabody Fellows Earth Science Program is a professional development opportunity for middle school educators that is focused on the interpretation of landforms that result from constructive and destructive geologic forces. The project is producing curriculum resources for wide-spread dissemination, that includes lesson plans, content information, model student assessment instruments, hands-on specimens, and field trip activities. Resource development teachers are working with Museum staff and researchers to produce materials that are both aligned with national and state standards and based on current research and that encourage inquiry-oriented and place-based learning. Through summer institutes and year-round workshops, participating teachers will gain content knowledge in this area, learn how to use the curriculum materials, develop their use of inquiry-oriented and place-based instructional techniques, and increase their use of field sites. The project also has an informal community education component in the form of family event days for Museum visitors and the production of a 'mini-exhibit' for use in outreach programs. Program partners are the two urban public school districts of New Haven and West Haven, and the sixth-year certification program, the 'Institute of Science Instruction and Study' at Southern Connecticut State University. The program is also collaborating with the Connecticut Department of Education.