Site-Specific Environmental Education

该项目建立在一项成功的现场环境教育试点计划的基础上。中小学教师团队将参加为期两周的现场环境教育课程。调查人员为该项目所在地威斯康星州鹅湖野生动物区开发的材料包括特定的冰川、基岩和历史地质学、湖沼学、植物学、土壤和水信息，以及适合中小学课堂的生态概括和教学活动。参与者将学习该地区的自然和人文历史，参与实地工作加强教学，参与和开展跨课程教学活动。在项目的第二阶段，参与项目的教师将返回威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，开始为他们选择的地点开发特定地点的材料。在完成自己的现场教师指南后，在计划的最后阶段，教师作为“教师领袖”将使用他们的新材料和他们的网站为他们所在地区的其他教师提供在职机会。拟议的项目将支持两个周期的教师小组，每个周期由三名教师组成的八个小组。预期的成果是增加环境科学的内容知识，提高教授环境教育的能力和热情，开发供地区在当地使用的特定地点材料，并向参与地区的其他教师传播信息和材料。

This project builds on a successful pilot program in site- specific environmental education. Teams of elementary/middle school teachers will participate in a two-week field course in site-specific environmental education. Materials developed by the investigators for the Goose Lake Wildlife Area, Wisconsin, site for the project, include specific glacial, bedrock, and historical geology, limnology, botany, soils, and water information, as well as ecological generalizations and teaching activities suitable for the elementary/middle school classroom.The participants will learn the natural and human history of the area, participate in field work to reinforce instruction, and participate in and develop cross-curricular teaching activities. During the second phase of the project the participant teachers will return to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to begin development of site specific materials for a site of their choosing. Following completion of their own site-specific teachers guide, in the final phase of the program, the teachers as "teacher leaders" will use their new materials and their site to provide inservice opportunities for other teachers in their districts. The proposed project will support two cycles of teacher teams, eight teams of three teachers per cycle. Desired outcomes are increased content knowledge in the environmental sciences, increased capability and enthusiasm for teaching environmental education, development of site-specific materials for local use by districts, and the dissemination of information and materials to other teachers in the participating districts.