The Earth and Space Science Standards Project

9978346 gearry许多州和学区最近制定并采用了K-12年级新的科学内容标准，其中生命科学、物理科学、地球和空间科学各占三分之一。这是几十年来，地球和空间科学第一次在K-12科学课程中受到如此突出的关注。为了利用这一新的机会，地球和空间科学标准项目（ESSSP）将把广泛的科学、教育、商业和政策组织聚集在一起，制定一个为期五年的地球和空间科学标准行动计划。该行动计划将帮助全国各地的学区将高质量、以标准为基础的地球和空间科学课程整合到中学科学教育课程中。行动计划将根据教师和行政人员在学生学习和熟练掌握地球和空间科学方面的具体需要。在接下来的12个月里，该项目将确定并汇集专业发展、教学、课程和教材、评估、教师准备、教育政策和科学教育改革等领域的关键人才。其中许多人将是地球和空间科学内部的专家，但许多个人将是地球和空间科学以外的组织的专家。这些初步规划工作的高潮将是1999年秋季在科罗拉多州博尔德举行的为期三天的“地球和空间科学标准：行动计划发展会议”。大约80名中学科学教育工作者、管理人员、科学家、商界领袖和政策专家将应邀参加这次会议。在1999年秋季的会议上，与会者将制定一项五年行动计划，该计划将：(1)围绕一套共同的基于标准的教育目标和目的联合地球和空间科学界，(2)汇集关键的科学教育资源，(3)指导新的地球和空间科学教育倡议的发展，以及(4)为ESSSP的第二阶段提供基础，该阶段将重点放在资助和实施行动计划上。

9978346GearyMany states and school districts have recently developed and adopted new science content standards for grades K-12 containing one-third each life, physical, and earth and space science. This is the first time in decades that the earth and space sciences have received such prominent attention in K-12 science programs. To take advantage of this new opportunity, the Earth and Space Science Standards Project (ESSSP), will bring together a broad spectrum of science, education, business, and policy organizations to create a five-year Earth and Space Science Standards Action Plan. This Action Plan will assist school districts across the country with the integration of high quality, standards-based, earth and space science curricula into their secondary science education programs. The Action Plan will be based on the specific needs of teachers and administrators with respect to student learning and proficiencies in the earth and space sciences. During the next twelve months, the project will identify and bring together key people in the areas of professional development, teaching, curriculum and materials, assessment, teacher preparation, education policy, and science education reform. Many of these people will be experts from within the earth and space sciences, but many individuals will be experts from organizations outside of the earth and space sciences. The culmination of these initial planing efforts will be a three-day "Earth and Space Science Standards: Action Plan Development Conference" that will occur in fall, 1999 in Boulder, Colorado. Approximately 80 secondary science educators, administrators, scientists, business leaders, and policy experts will be invited to participate in this conference. At this fall, 1999 conference, participants will create a five-year plan of action that will: (1) unite the earth and space science communities around a common set of standards-based, educational goals and objectives, (2) bring together key science education resources, (3) guide the development of new earth and space science education initiatives, and (4) provide the basis for Phase Two of ESSSP which will focus on funding and implementing the Action Plan.