Creating Effective Meterology Laboratory Modules to Improve Curriculum and Enhance Student Transition into Upper-Division Coursework

Paul L.西尔瓦特卡 9551536杜学院Page 1995财政年度305，000美元格伦·埃林，IL 60137 ILI -领导力 实验室发展： 地质 标题：创建有效的气象学实验室模块，以改善课程设置，并加强学生向高级课程的过渡 气象学领域内的业务和研究活动正在经历前所未有的迅速变化。 有效的气象实验室课程必须反映科学用户的最新创新和理论应用。 该项目正在开发一个低年级本科生实验室课程，为大一新生和二年级学生进行高年级学习做准备，为这些学生提供足够的时间开始学习他们所选择的研究领域，并通过在理解用于气象研究的工具方面提供平衡和必要的基础来补充现有课程。 该项目的具体目标是： 设计气象学低年级课程作业。 创建一个由计算机程序和预测技术组成的实验室手册，用于低年级课程。 这些实验室也被设计为最大的灵活性，并在高年级课程的扩展使用。 为学生提供从大二到大三更容易过渡的技能。 鼓励其他社区学院发展气象学课程。 鼓励不擅长数学的学生对天气产生兴趣。 激励学生学习高等数学和物理。 该项目正在制作大约20种新的计算机辅助实验室课程材料。 这些单元为编制天气分析和预报课程奠定了基础，并为现有的大气科学课程创造了新的计算机实验室机会。 将从拟议项目中受益的社区大学学生的背景包括气象学专业、教育工作者、飞行员和对气象学有浓厚兴趣的人。 自定进度的气象学模块，包括新技术与标准的普遍概念，使气象学基础的个性化教学. 这些模块包含理解数值模型，预测技术和数据采集和操作的课程，可移植到不同类型的预测实验室环境中，让学生有机会开始通过拼凑大气的细微差别来理解气象学的广泛含义，并且可以鼓励学生通过学习他们原本不会考虑的数学课程来扩展科学素养。 随着劳动力需求的快速变化，只有当教育实践的演变与研究领域本身的演变相平行时，未来的学生才能准备好进入工作场所。 该项目的目的是提供这样的准备大一和大二水平的大学生有兴趣继续他们的研究气象学在上师。

Paul L. Sirvatka DUE 9551536 College of Du Page FY1995 $ 305,000 Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 ILI - Leadership in Laboratory Development: Geosciences Title: Creating Effective Meteorology Laboratory Modules to Improve Curriculum and Enhance Student Transition into Upper-Division Coursework The operational and research activities within the field of meteorology are undergoing unprecedented and rapid change. An effective meteorological laboratory curriculum must reflect the latest innovations and theoretical applications of the users of the science. This project is developing a lower-division undergraduate laboratory curriculum that prepares freshmen and sophomores for upper-level study, provides these students adequate time to begin learning their chosen field of study, and supplements the existing curriculum by providing a balanced and necessary foundation in understanding the tools used for meteorological study. The specific objectives of the project are to: Design lower division course work in meteorology. Create a laboratory manual consisting of computer programs and forecasting techniques to be used in lower division courses. These laboratories also are designed for maximum flexibility and expanded use in upper-division courses. Provide students with skill for an easier transition from sophomore to junior year. Encourage other community colleges to develop programs in meteorology. Encourage students who are not adept at mathematics to become interested in weather. Motivate students to take higher mathematics and physics. The project is producing approximately 20 new computer-based laboratory curriculum materials. The modules provide the foundation for the development of courses in weather analysis and forecasting and create new computer-based laboratory opportunities for existing courses in atmospheric science. The backgrounds of community college students who will benefit from the proposed project include meteorology majors, educators, aviators and people with an avid interest in meteorology. Self- paced meteorology modules encompassing new technologies with standard universal concepts allow for individualized instruction of meteorology fundamentals. The modules contain lessons in understanding numerical models, forecasting techniques and data acquisition and manipulation, are portable to different types of forecasting laboratory environments, give students an opportunity to begin to understand the broad implication of meteorology by piecing together the atmosphere's subtle nuances, and may encourage students to expand scientific literacy by taking mathematics courses that they otherwise would not have considered. With the rapid change in workforce needs, students of the future will be prepared to enter the workplace only if the evolution of educational practices parallels that of the field of study itself. The project is designed to provide such preparation to freshman and sophomore level college students with an interest in continuing their studies in meteorology at the upper division.