Eco-Inquiry: An Ecology Curriculum for Grades 5/6

生态系统研究所要求提供两年的支助，以加强、试验、编制和传播题为“生态调查”的生态学课程。这种多维度，8至15周，五年级和六年级课程的基础是通过四年的当地开发和测试建立起来的。生态探究有三个显著特点：1)强调生态素养的概念基础——营养循环和能量流动；2)致力于揭开科学和科学家实践的神秘面纱；3)通过在课堂上模拟科学社区来培养学生的探究技能和倾向。生态探究使用多种教学方法（例如，合作学习，概念改变教学），使学生参与富有想象力和高度参与性的活动。生态系统研究所（IES）是纽约植物园的一个分支机构，成立于1983年，旨在促进生态学的教育项目。IES现场、实验室和教育设施位于纽约米尔布鲁克的玛丽·弗拉格勒·卡里植物园；其他油田位于美国东北部和其他地方。

The Institute of Ecosystem Studies is requesting two year support to enhance, test, produce and disseminate an ecology curriculum entitled Eco-Inquiry. The foundation of this multi-dimensional, 8 to 15 week, 5th and 6th grade curriculum has been built through four years of local development and testing. Eco-Inquiry has three distinctive features: 1) its emphasis on the conceptual underpinnings of ecological literacy - nutrient cycling and energy flow, 2) its commitment to demystifying the practice of science and scientists, and 3) its approach to developing students' inquiry skills and dispositions through modeling the scientific community in the classroom. Eco-Inquiry uses a diversity of teaching methods (e.g., collaborative learning, teaching for conceptual change) to engage students in activities that are imaginative and highly participatory. The Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) is a division of The New York Botanical Garden, founded in 1983 to promote educational programs in ecology. IES field, laboratory and education facilities are at the Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum in Millbrook, New York; additional field sites are located throughout the northeastern United States and elsewhere.