Sea Experience: Theoretical and Practical Summer Programs of Teacher Enhancement in Marine Science

这个为期5年的SEA(海洋教育协会)项目每年提供两个海洋和航海科学方面的强化暑期班-一个为小学教师，一个为中学科学和数学教师，旨在为参与者提供海洋科学的一般知识，可以在课堂上实施并传递给其他教师的实地和实验室工作的想法，以及作为进行科学研究的团队的一部分在海上工作的实际经验。每年将在全国范围内选拔23名小学教师和23名初中和高中教师参加暑期学校，整个项目的教师总数为230人。海洋体验计划将从在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋校园举行的为期三周的岸上活动开始；在这里，教师将参加强调物理、化学、地质和生物的基本概念的课程，这些概念可以通过海洋研究向学生传达。每个项目的最后十天将在一艘海洋；S装备齐全的海洋考察帆船上度过，教师将在那里参加开展科研项目和操作船只的实践动手体验。后续活动将包括为海洋经验参与者举办的年度讲习班，每位教师将致力于在其所在州举办两次在职培训讲习班。教师将被提供各种各样的材料用于他们自己的教学，还将被要求在他们的母校为同事举办两次讲习班。这项建议适用于教师培训，因为它旨在提高参与者的科学知识和教学水平，并提供作为进行科学研究的团队的一部分的实际工作经验。非NSF费用分摊约为NSF要求的金额的34%。

This 5-year SEA (Sea Education Association) project offers two intensive summer institutes each year - one for elementary school teachers and one for middle through high school science and mathematics teachers - in marine and nautical sciences, designed to provide participants with a general knowledge of marine sciences, ideas of field and lab work that can be implemented in the classroom and passed on to other teachers, and practical experience working at sea as part of a team conducting scientific research. Twenty- three elementary school teachers and twenty-three middle and high school teachers will be selected nationally each year to participate in the summer institutes, for a total of 230 teachers over the course of the project. The Sea Experience programs will begin with shore-based, three week components held in Woods Hole, MA at SEA's campus; here, teachers will participate in courses emphasizing basic concepts in physics, chemistry, geology and biology which can be conveyed to students through studies of the ocean. The final ten days of each program will be spent on board one of SEA;s fully equipped oceanographic research sailing vessels, where teachers will participate in the practical hands-on experience of carrying out research projects and in the operation of the vessels. Follow-up activities will include annual workshops for Sea Experiences participants, and each teacher will be committed to presenting two in-service training workshops in their home states. Teachers will be provided with a large variety of materials to use in their own teaching and will also be required to conduct two workshops for colleagues in their home schools. This proposal is appropriate for Teacher Enhancement because it is designed to enhance the science knowledge and teaching of participants, and because it provides practical experience working as part of a team conducting scientific research. Non-NSF Cost-sharing is approximately 34% of the amount requested from NSF.