South Carolina Earth Science Resource Mobilization and Teacher Resource Agent Development Program: A Cooperative Effort Involving Industry, Education and Government Agencies

与南卡罗来纳州大学、南卡罗来纳州合作 地质调查局、南卡罗来纳州矿业协会和 南卡罗来纳州地球科学教师协会将： 1.调动、开发和传播现有资源， 南卡罗来纳州将加强地球科学的教学， 各级; 2.发展十五个地理分布在地球上的骨干队伍 科学教师资源代理能够分发这些和其他 资源给他们的同伴; 3.利用地球资源建立同伴教育和支助系统 科学教师资源代理。 该计划将满足三大需求， 在国家的地球科学教师中发现： 1.南卡罗来纳州规定， 八年级，国家已经建立了地球科学作为一个 三大科学领域将作为“基本技能”进行测试; 2.南卡罗来纳州的地球科学教师准备不足， 尊重知识内容，以“探究”为基础的教学策略， 以及科学教育的最新进展; 3.没有任何机制来动员和传播人力资源， 地球科学课堂的材料资源，或确定和 在需要的地方开发这些资源。 由合作伙伴分担的费用将占国家科学基金的73%。 基金会供资。

A partnership of the University of South Carolina, the South Carolina Geological Survey, the Mining Association of South Carolina, and the South Carolina Earth Science Teachers Association will: 1. Mobilize, develop, and disseminate those resources available in South Carolina which will strengthen the teaching of earth science at all levels; 2. Develop a cadre of fifteen geographically distributed Earth Science Teacher Resource Agents capable of distributing these and other resources to their peers; 3. Implement a peer education and support system utilizing the Earth Science Teacher Resource Agents. This program will respond to three broad needs which have been identified among the state's earth science teachers: 1. South Carolina mandates that earth science be taught in the eighth grade, and the state has established earth science as one of three broad areas of science which will be tested as a "basic skill"; 2. South Carolina's earth science teachers are under-prepared with respect to knowledge of content, teaching strategies based on "inquiry", and recent advances in science education; 3. There exists no mechanism to mobilize and disseminate human and material resources for the earth science classroom, or to identify and develop such resources where they are needed. Cost sharing by the partners will total 73% of the National Science Foundation funding.