Earth Links: Using Scientific Inquiry to Teach Geoscience and Mathematics

地球联系：利用科学探究教授地球科学和数学这项资助允许费城天普大学的研究人员在两年的时间里实施一项计划，向市中心小学的教师教授地球科学和数学。该计划每年帮助10名未来的小学和初中教师实施地球科学课程，并将其作为研究地球科学问题的跳板。天普大学（Temple University）的职前教师对少数族裔高危人群的地球系统进行调查，在5至8年级实施课程，参加实地课程，并在整个项目过程中接受指导。第一年包括由学生实习生对少数民族校外项目中的“调查地球系统”探究式课程进行实地测试。然后，学生们将带着这些经验到当地5至8年级的教室进行学生教学体验。在此期间，职前学生还需要参加实地地球科学课程。在第二年，这些教师将被跟踪，通过他们自己的课堂实施材料，项目将被外部评估有效性。这项拨款使少数民族群体能够接触到以社区为基础的科学项目，并向学生和一群积极进取的年轻教师介绍地球科学。

Earth Links: Using Scientific Inquiry to Teach Geoscience and MathematicsLeonard0331154This grant allows researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia two years to implement an program to teach geosciences and mathematics to teachers of inner city elementary grades. The program helps ten prospective elementary and middle grade teachers per year to implement a geoscience curriculum and to use it as a springboard to investigate Earth science problems. Preservice teachers at Temple University investigate Earth Systems with minority at-risk populations, implement the curriculum in 5th to 8th grades, take a field-based course, and are mentored over the course of the program.Year one involves a field-test by student interns of the "Investigating Earth Systems" inquiry-based curriculum elements in out-of-school programs for minority populations. The students will then take this experience with them into local 5th to 8th grade classrooms during their student teaching experience. The preservice students are also required to take a field-based Earth sciences course during this period. During year two, these teachers will be followed through their own classroom implementation of the materials, and the project will be externally evaluated for effectiveness. This grant exposes a subset of minority populations to a strongly community-based program in science, and provides an introduction to geosciences to both the school children and a set of strongly motivated young teachers.