GeoEd: Teachers Exploring Coastal Hazards and Resilience

GeoEd：教师探索沿海灾害和复原力

• 批准号: 1035080
• 负责人: Sandra Harpole
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1035080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GeoEd; Teachers; Exploring; Coastal; Hazards

Mississippi State University's Center for Science, Mathematics & Technology (CSMT) and the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) are collaborating to enhance K-12 instruction in Earth science through a teacher enhancement program on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Using an Earth systems approach, Teachers Exploring Coastal Hazards and Resilience is increasing teachers' understanding of coastal hazards and resilience along the Northern Gulf of Mexico, as well as introduce them to geoscience career opportunities that may benefit their students. Goals of the program are to deliver Earth science content that connects geoscience education to local conditions and ecosystems, enhance teacher knowledge of geoscience careers, develop lesson plans adapting workshop activities to the classroom, and increase student interest in geoscience careers. During two-week summer workshops, 40 in-service science teachers in grades 5-8 (20 each summer) from the St. Tammany and Orleans Parish districts in Louisiana and school districts in Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties in Mississippi are participating in hands-on activities and lesson plan preparation. The workshops are being conducted on location at NOAA (National Data Buoy Center, National Coastal Data Development Center, National Weather Service, and Fisheries Service), Naval Oceanographic Office, Naval Research Laboratory, NASA, University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Center, and Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory. Teachers participate in two online follow-up sessions during each academic school year.

密西西比州立大学科学、数学技术中心（CSMT）和北方海湾研究所（NGI）正在合作，通过密西西比墨西哥湾沿岸的教师增强计划，加强K-12地球科学教学。利用地球系统的方法，教师探索沿海灾害和恢复能力是增加教师的沿海灾害和恢复能力的理解沿着墨西哥湾北方，以及向他们介绍地球科学的职业机会，可能有利于他们的学生。该计划的目标是提供地球科学内容，将地球科学教育与当地条件和生态系统联系起来，增强教师对地球科学职业的了解，制定课程计划，使研讨会活动适应课堂，并提高学生对地球科学职业的兴趣。在为期两周的暑期讲习班期间，来自路易斯安那州圣坦慕尼和奥尔良教区地区以及密西西比州汉考克、哈里森和杰克逊县的40名5-8年级（每年夏季20名）在职科学教师参加了实践活动和教案准备。这些讲习班正在诺阿（国家数据浮标中心、国家海岸数据开发中心、国家气象局和渔业局）、海军海洋学办公室、海军研究实验室、美国航天局、南密西西比大学墨西哥湾海岸研究中心和多芬岛海洋实验室举办。教师在每个学年参加两次在线后续会议。