Teacher Training in the Observational Sciences at the George Observatory and at Rice University

“乔治大学观测科学教师培训 天文台”是一个综合性的三年计划，教 每年20名教师在研究中实际使用的技术 物理和生态科学。 此程序将 他们的经验，目前科学作为一个过程， 而不是一堆事实 天文台位于 布拉索斯弯曲国家公园，是一个理想的网站， 天文学和生态学研究，用一架36英尺的望远镜， 研究圆顶，在东部和西部的小型望远镜 圆顶，一个定日镜（太阳观测台），和一个生态 研究植物群、动物群和环境条件的实验室 在5000英亩的公园里 教师们将参与其中， 两人一组，在一项研究指导下进行的研究计划中， 导师（莱斯大学的教职员工或专业科学家 休斯顿自然科学博物馆或其他 休斯顿机构）。 第一周将包括讲座 由每位导师向整个小组介绍科学 背景和概述的研究技术， 无论是在一般情况下，还是在具体的研究项目中。 的 教师（两人一组）可以做出明智的选择 每个项目的工作。每个项目将 是一个研究助理，谁将陪同每对 教师在数据收集阶段的任何时候， 研究（60小时，最多7周） 并将负责所有的安全运行 设备. 此外，一名学生程序员将与 每对教师都要创建一个定制的研究 与教师电脑最兼容的资料库， 他们的家庭学校。 这样老师们就可以继续 添加到他们自己的数据库中， 新的数据，无论是在当地的网站或实地考察， 去天文台 参加该计划的人可以获得 三个学期的学分 程序开始 在1990年的夏天。 研究项目包括星系和恒星天文学， 星云天体摄影，太阳观测，光与空气 污染研究，酸雨研究，人口研究， 植物和动物，天气观测，树木生长 观察等。教师将被要求写出来 一份涵盖所用技术和发现结果的报告。 每个老师都会带回家所有十个的录像带 讲座和所有十份报告的副本，以便教师 可以在他们的学校课堂上复制十个 研究项目。 通过这种方式， 教室最大化。 46，773美元的费用分摊相当于NSF的15% 奖

"Teacher Training in the Observational Sciences at the George Observatory" is a comprehensive three-year program to teach twenty teachers per year techniques actually used in research in the physical and ecological sciences. This program will them experiences that present science as a process rather than a collection of facts. The Observatory, situated at Brazos Bend State Park, is an ideal site for both astronomical and ecological study, with a 36' telescope in the Research Dome, smaller telescopes in the East and West Domes, a heliostat (solar observatory), and an ecology laboratory to study flora, fauna and environmental conditions on the 5000-acre park site. The teachers will participate, in pairs, in ongoing research programs guided by a research mentor (faculty members or professional scientists at Rice University, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, or other Houston institutions). The first week will comprise lectures by each mentor to the entire group, presenting science background and outlining research techniques that are used both in general and for the specific research project. The teachers (working in pairs) can then make an educated choice of which project to work on. Assigned to each project will be a Research Assistant, who will accompany each pair of teachers at all times during the data gathering phase of the research (60 hours, spread over a maximum of seven weeks) and will be responsible for the safe operation of all equipment. In addition, a student programmer will work with each pair of teachers to create a customized research database most compatible with the teachers' computers at their home schools. In this way, the teachers can continue to add to their own databases with their own pupils adding new data each year, either at local sites or as field trips to the Observatory. Participants in the program may earn three semester hours of graduate credit. The program begins in the summer of 1990. The research projects include galactic and stellar astronomy, nebular astrophotography, solar observation, light and air pollution studies, acid rain studies, population studies of both plants and animals, weather observations, tree growth observations, etc. The teachers will be required to write up a report covering the techniques used and results found. Each teacher will take home with them videotapes of all ten lectures plus copies of all ten reports, so that the teachers can replicate with their school classes any of the ten research projects. In this way the transference to the classroom is maximized. Cost sharing in the amount of $46,773 equals 15% of the NSF award.