Rhode Island Marine and Environmental GK-12 Fellows

这个项目是罗德岛大学海洋学研究生院(GSO)、海洋项目办公室(OMP)和14个海洋和环境学术部门之间为期三年的合作。这一广泛的努力每年准备12名研究生教学研究员，让K-12教师和学生参与探究和教育技术活动、实地练习，以及URI由NSF资助的生活在边缘的展览。在学院导师的配合下，研究员与项目工作人员合作，通过一套正式和非正式的教育，直接接触到272名教师参与者和13,300多名学生及其家长，其中许多人人数不足。两个活动主题为项目活动奠定了基础。在学习过程主题下，正在利用与海洋和环境主题有关的内容知识来加强学生和教师的学习。方法运用认知原理和创新教学法。结合技术主题，教师正在接受有关使用因特网(包括海洋和海洋管理局的互动网站、发现沿海环境(http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doce.htm)的指导，以获取教育资源并对其进行评估，以便在课堂上使用。研究员还向教师和学生介绍其他技术，如地理信息系统、遥感以及他们在论文研究中使用的仪器。

This project is a three-year collaboration between the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO), Office of Marine Programs (OMP), and fourteen marine and environmental academic departments. This wide-ranging effort prepares twelve Graduate Teaching Fellows per year to engage K-12 teachers and students in inquiry and educational technology activities, field exercises, and URI's NSF-funded Living on the Edge exhibit. Paired with Faculty Mentors, Fellows are working with Project Staff to directly reach 272 teacher participants and more than 13,300 students and their parents, many underrepresented, through a suite of formal and informal education.Two activity themes provide the foundation for project activities. Under the learning processes theme, content knowledge related to marine and environmental topics is being used to enhance student and teacher learning. Methods apply cognitive principles and innovative pedagogy. Incorporated in the technology theme, teachers are receiving instruction in the use of the Internet (including OMP's interactive site, Discovering Coastal Environments (http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doce.htm) to access educational resources and evaluate them for use in the classroom. Fellows are also introducing teachers and students to other technologies such as GIS, remote sensing, and the instrumentation they utilize in their thesis research.