An Inquiry and Standards Based Earth System Science Course for Pre-service K-8 Teachers and Others

地球系统科学（40）在这个项目中，我们正在调整基于问题的学习（PBL）和其他基于探究的方法，为K-8职前（preK-8）教师提供一个新的综合地球科学课程。这一努力的动机是解决我们的学前-8职前教师参加课程不符合内容和教学标准，这不是为他们设计的问题。通过这门新的综合地球科学课程，我们试图提高学生对科学的态度，对科学的理解，"做"科学的能力，对科学概念的理解，以及利用教育技术学习科学的能力。我们还旨在增加选择强调科学的preK-8教师的数量，增加科学K-8教师的多样性，并提供大学教师和研究生发展，以确保高质量的教学。为了实现这些目标，我们正在创建一个地球系统科学课程，满足国家和国家的地球/空间科学内容，科学教学法，评估和评价，以及有效利用教学技术的教育标准。该课程是围绕主题单元，整合多个学科，这有助于自己的探究式教学和学习策略，并与社会相关和有趣的学生。PBL方法是一种以学生为中心的方法，使用具体的，真实的问题来提高学生的学习。在课程中，学生通过在线探索和现实世界数据的可视化，小组合作和动手实验来仔细研究地球科学问题。我们正在与一位小学科学教育工作者合作，设计有效的评估和评价方法。

Earth Systems Science (40)In this project we are adapting problem-based learning (PBL) and other inquiry-based approaches to a new integrated geoscience course for K-8 pre-service (preK-8) teachers. The motivation for this effort is to address the problem where our preK-8 pre-service teachers were taking a course that did not meet the content and pedagogy standards and that was not designed for them. With this new integrated geoscience course, we are trying to improve the students' attitudes toward science, understanding of science, ability to "do" science, understanding of science concepts, and ability to use instructional technology to learn about science. We also aim to increase the number of preK-8 teachers who choose to emphasize science, increase the diversity of science K-8 teachers, and provide university faculty and graduate student development to ensure high quality instruction. To accomplish these goals, we are creating an earth system science course that meets state and national educational standards for earth/space science content, science pedagogy, assessment and evaluation, and effective use of instructional technologies. The course is being designed around topical units that integrate multiple disciplines, that lend themselves to inquiry-based teaching and learning strategies, and that are socially relevant and interesting to students. The PBL approach is a student-centered approach that uses concrete, real-world problems to enhance student learning. In the course students investigate carefully framed geoscience problems via online explorations and visualizations of real-world data, small-group collaborations, and hands-on experiments. We are working with an elementary science educator to design effective assessment and evaluation methods.