US/USSR Curriculum Materials Development Project

美国地理学家协会的主要地理学家将与中学教师一起编写一套课程材料，用于中学现有的和新兴的社会科学课程。这些材料将集中于人口、格局、经济区划和政治地理作为塑造整个国家人与环境相互作用格局的因素。其目的是对环境问题有一个广泛的背景理解，特别强调需要在全球、区域和地方各级采取协调行动的各种全球性问题。教材将包括一份简明的地理教材、一套课堂和学生个人活动、相关阅读材料和一份详细的教师手册。还将开发学生评估工具。这些教材将根据《地理教育指南》、NCTM标准、国家学校社会研究委员会出版的《课程规划：21世纪的社会研究课程》报告中所推荐的中学课程的几个方面的趋势，纳入其中。形成性评价将由外部专家进行，地理联盟网络将在分发材料和提高教师水平方面发挥核心作用。

Leading geographers from the Association of American Geographers together with secondary school teachers will produce a curriculum materials package for use in existing and emerging social science classes in the secondary schools. The materials will focus on population, patterns, economic regionalization and political geography as factors that shape the pattern of human-environment interaction throughout the nation. The aim is a broad contextual understanding of environmental issues with particular emphasis on the kinds of global problems that require coordinated action at the global, regional and local levels. The materials will consist of a concise geography text, a set of classroom and individual student activities, related readings, and a detailed teachers' manual. Student assessment instruments will also be developed. The materials will incorporate features that reflect trends in several aspects of the secondary curriculum as recommended by "Guidelines for Geographic Education," the NCTM Standards, the report, "Charting a Course: Social Studies Curriculum for the 21st Century" published by the National Commission on Social Studies in Schools. Formative evaluation will be conducted by an outside expert and the network of Geographic Alliances will play a central role in materials dissemination and teacher enhancement.