Developing an Earth System Science Teacher Professional Development Tool Kit

该项目利用现有的气候变化数据集，活动和资源，开发气候科学的示范教师专业发展工具包和程序。 工具包的目标受众是进行教师专业发展的正规（教师）和非正规（自然学家、博物馆）教育工作者。 第二受众是中学地球科学教师。该工具包是与Benton Central Jr.的教育工作者合作开发的。高中（印第安纳州）和圣约翰路德学校（密歇根州），与蒂佩卡诺县，印第安纳州的自然主义者，和印第安纳州的环境教育协会的代表。该项目分为三个阶段。第一阶段的重点是教师专业发展工具包和程序的开发。第二阶段是使用工具包进行教师专业发展，实地测试，评估和修订工具包。第三阶段涉及一个暑期研究所，为正规和非正规教育工作者使用工具包做准备，向各组织和机构传播工具包，并建立一个气候科学项目网络。

This project utilizes existing climate change datasets, activities, and resources to develop a model teacher professional development tool kit and program for climate science. The target audiences for the tool kits are formal (teachers) and informal (naturalists, museum) educators who conduct teacher professional development. The secondary audience is secondary Earth science teachers. The tool kit is being developed in collaboration with educators from Benton Central Jr.-Sr. High School (Indiana) and St John's Lutheran School (Michigan), a naturalist with Tippecanoe County, IN, and represenatives of the Environmental Education Association of Indiana. The project is divided into three phases. The first phase focuses on the development of the teacher professional development tool kit and program. The second phase involves using the tool kit to conduct teacher professional development, field testing, evaluating, and revising the tool kit. The third phase involves a summer institute to prepare formal and informal educators to use the tool kit, disseminating the tool kit to organizations and institutions, and establishing a Project Climate Science network.