Collaborative Research: The Earth Science Literacy Initiative Workshops

这一奖项将支持制定国家地球科学扫盲框架的新努力；这份关于大思想和支持概念的文件将是一项社区事业，代表着当前地球科学最先进的研究成果。它将由地球科学领域的顶尖科学家撰写、评估、塑造和修改。这一努力的结果将是地球科学研究界认为所有美国人都应该了解地球科学的声明。参与者将是科学家和教育工作者，他们拥有来自地球科学不同领域的专业知识，以充分代表我们领域内的研究广度。建立一套最能代表整个社区的基本原则和基本理念的过程将需要由一个组织委员会领导的几个步骤。更广泛的社区意见将经过两个不同的阶段：将于2008年5月12日至24日举行的120-150人在线讲习班，以及2008年7月20日至23日举行的约有120-150人的面对面写作讲习班。组织委员会将于2009年1月举行最后一次会议，根据这些讲习班的成果编制最后文件，并在随后的一段时间内进行评论和评价。在线讲习班将侧重于审查地球科学研究界的广泛想法，而面对面写作讲习班将侧重于将这些信息合并成一份连贯的文件。成果将是一份活生生的文件，它将随着我们这一领域未来的进展而继续增长和变化。该项目的成果将直接与当前的NRC和AAAS科学教育标准挂钩。它还将与海洋、大气、气候和其他社区的类似声明一起成为一个更广泛的地球系统科学素养项目的基金会的一部分。

This award will support a new effort to develop a national framework for Earth Science literacy; this document of Big Ideas and supporting concepts will be a community undertaking representing the current state-of-the-art research in Earth sciences. It will be written, evaluated, shaped and revised by the top scientists working in Earth science. The outcome of this effort will be a statement of what the Earth science research community feels all American's should know about Earth Science. The participants will be scientists and educators, with expertise from the diverse portions of the Earth Science, to fully represent the breadth of research within our field. The process of establishing a set of essential principles and fundamental ideas that best represents the entire community will require several steps that are lead by an organizing committee. Broader community input will come through two separate stages: an online workshop of 120-150 people to be held during May 12-24, 2008, and an in-person writing workshop of about held during July 20-23, 2008. There will be final meeting of the organizing committee in January of 2009 to produce the final document from the output of these workshops and a following period of comments and evaluations. The online workshop will focus on vetting a broad scope of ideas from the Earth science research community, and in the in-person writing workshop will focus on combining this information into a coherent document. The outcome will be a living document that will continue to grow and change with future advances in our field. The project's outcomes will be directly tied to current NRC and AAAS science education standards. It will also become part of the foundation, together with similar statements from the Oceans, Atmospheres, Climate and other communities, for an even broader Earth System Science Literacy project.