Geoscience Education: Web-Based Investigations for Geosciences (WIG)

[00:85620] messina基于网络的地球科学调查（WIG）是一项多学科、广泛受众的努力，目标是本科生和研究生、大学预科科学教师以及他们所负责的人员。这项倡议的核心是发展、实地测试和实施基于查询的地理信息系统/全球定位系统模块和将在互联网上广泛分发的“虚拟地质实地考察”。在一名研究生实习生的协助下，该项目的首席研究员将收集和组织空间数据，以构建批判性思维活动，其中地质，生物，地理，气象和其他GIS层将组合成地球系统难题。这些模块将采用互动式直接探究课程和“虚拟实地考察”的形式，最终用户将在其中探索偏远地区，寻找有助于解决问题的实物证据。该项目的PI将聘请圣何塞州立大学理学院的在校生协助，他们将收集进一步的空间数据，作为地质学课程要求的一部分。在校生还将实地测试这些模块，然后通过几个公共和私人互联网服务器更广泛地分发这些模块。传播策略还包括大学前和在职教师讲习班、参加全国会议和关于项目资源的期刊文章。WIG将提供基于网络的以学生为中心的活动、用于空间调查的存档数据集，以及用于全国或国际大学和中学的虚拟实地考察。

0085620MessinaWeb-based Investigations in the Geosciences (WIG) is a multidisciplinary, broad-audience endeavor, targeting undergraduate and graduate students, pre-college science teachers, and those in their charge. The core of this initiative involves the development, field-testing and implementation of inquiry-based GIS (Geographic Information Systems)/GPS (Global Positioning System) modules and "virtual geologic field trips" that will be widely distributed over the Internet. With the assistance of a graduate student intern, the Principal Investigator of the proposed project will gather and organize spatial data to construct critical thinking activities in which geologic, biologic, geographic, meteorologic, and other GIS layers are combined into Earth Systems puzzles. The modules will be in the form of interactive directed inquiry lessons and "virtual field trips" in which the end-user will explore a remote terrain in search of physical evidence to help solve a problem. The PI of this project will employ the assistance of current students within San Jose State University's College of Science, who will collect further spatial data as part of Geology course requirements. Current students will also field-test the modules before they are more widely distributed via several public and private Internet servers. Dissemination strategies also include pre-college and in-service teacher workshops, national conference participation, and journal articles on the project's resources. WIG will make available Web-based student-centered activities, archived data sets to conduct spatial investigations, and virtual field trips for use in colleges and secondary schools around the country, or internationally.