Virtual Field Trip to the Mid-Ocean Ridge

这一建议建立在现有的光盘《我们的动态星球》的基础上，通过为海洋学入门课程创建一个逼真的海底“虚拟现实”之旅。它支持将现有项目的内容增加一倍的工作，并使学生能够探索更广泛的海洋学分支学科，包括海洋化学、生物学、海洋资源开发和海洋技术。努力的重点是汇编最近从世界大洋中脊收集的丰富多样的数据，并加强“点击”用户界面，以促进学生与主题的互动。作为光盘组成部分的辅助性课程材料是这项倡议的一个重要组成部分。学生将学习海底地形、海底地质学、海洋生物和热液温泉。学生还将获得其他类型的数据，如水化学、温度、光衰减、岩石化学、磁场强度、地震结构等。为学生提供与实际研究探险中获得的观测和数据相关的发现体验，这些探险调查独特地出现在大洋中脊的岩石圈、水圈和生物圈之间的联系，收集来自研究海洋学家的最新、尖端的结果，并将它们打包成一种易于使用和理解的格式，供非理科本科生使用。NSF表格1358(1/94)

This proposal builds on an existing CD-ROM, "Our Dynamic Planet" by creating a realistic "virtual reality" trip to the seafloor intended for an introductory course in oceanography. It supports work that will double the content of an existing project, and enable students to explore a broader spectrum of oceanographic sub-disciplines including ocean chemistry, biology, marine resource development, and marine technology. Efforts are focused on compiling a rich variety of recently collected data from the world's mid-ocean ridges and enhancing the "point and click" user interface to facilitate student-subject matter interaction. Supportive curriculum materials that will be integral to CD-ROM are a key component of this initiative. Students will work with seafloor topography, seafloor geology, sea life, and hydrothermal hot springs. The students will also have access to other types of data, such as water chemistry, temperature, light attenuation, rock chemistry, magnetic intensity, seismic structure and more. Students are provided with a discovery experience tied to observations and data taken during actual research expeditions that investigate the link between lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere that uniquely occurs at mid-ocean ridges, collecting the latest, cutting edge results from research oceanographers and packaging them in an easy to use and understand format for undergraduate non-science students. NSF FORM 1358 (1/94)