Sharing the Message of Global Change Through Multimedia, Vertically Integrated Outreach Curriculum

该项目正在开发一个关于不同地区如何受到气候变化影响的网络课程。 这是PI目前正在实施的教育计划的扩展，目标是研究生，本科生和K-12学生。 新的课程是基于近实时的生态生理学数据正在收集的PI的研究地点在北极阿拉斯加，圣地亚哥的地中海型生态系统，和拉巴斯沙漠在墨西哥。 新课程强调气候变化的重要性，科学数据和概念的现实应用，以及一个地区的气候事件（例如，厄尔尼诺现象）影响其他区域的气候变化（例如北极振荡）。 通过国家科学基金会赞助的GK-12“小学科学界参与伙伴关系”项目，正在初步开发数量有限的网络课程。 目前的项目不仅通过增加在线组件和结构来增强现有课程，而且还提高了教师和家长的内容知识，接触到更多的公众受众，并影响了本科生生态学课程。 该课程的设计是为了更有活力，与全球变化研究和项目信息的其他来源的联系更紧密，并接触更广泛的用户。 该项目将使用的数据包括温度、降水、碳通量、土壤湿度、土壤辐射、风速和风向、蒸散量以及土壤和空气温度。 将通过以下方式传播课程和项目成果：（1）通过因特网提供课堂和公众使用的课程;（2）不同区域学生之间的视频会议;（3）社区和家长了解全球变化的“科学之夜”机会;（4）向教师和社区介绍课程的系列公开讲座;（5）学生参与圣地亚哥州立大学的两个本科生生态学课程，并加强课程;（6）在阿拉斯加州巴罗、加州州圣地亚哥和墨西哥拉巴斯的中央社区地区（遗产或社区中心、学校或博物馆）安装独立的互动信息亭，并连接互联网。 通过视频会议的研讨会在过去非常成功地接触到阿拉斯加和拉巴斯的K-8教师和学生，利用圣地亚哥州立大学、圣地亚哥县教育办公室、北坡自治市学区和挪威生物研究中心的设施。该项目的网络部分提供了一种多功能手段，既可以接触到地理位置不同的预定受众，也可以接触到地球仪的其他受众。

This project is developing a Web-based curriculum about how different regions are affected by climate change. It is an expansion of education programs currently being implemented by the PI, which target graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 students. The new curriculum is based on the near-real-time ecophysiological data being collected at the PI's research sites in arctic Alaska, San Diego's Mediterranean-type ecosystem, and the La Paz desert in Mexico. The new curriculum highlights the importance of climate change, the real-world application of scientific data and concepts, and how climatic events in one region (e.g., El Nino events) affect climate change in other regions (e.g. arctic oscillations). Through the NSF-sponsored GK-12 "Partnerships Involving the Scientific Community in Elementary Schools" (PISCES) Project, a limited number of Web-based lessons are in early development. The current project is not only enhancing existing lessons with additional on-line components and structure, but also improving teacher and parent content knowledge, reaching a larger public audience, and impacting undergraduate ecology courses. The curriculum is designed to be more dynamic, more intensive in its links to additional sources of global change research and project information, and to reach a broader spectrum of users. Data to be used in this project include temperature, precipitation, carbon flux, soil moisture, soil radiation, wind speed and direction, evapotranspiration, and soil and air temperatures. Access to the curriculum and the results of the project will be disseminated through (1) Internet-accessible curriculum lessons for classroom and public use; (2) videoconference feeds between students in different regions; (3) "science night" opportunities for the community and parents to learn about global change; (4) a public lecture series introducing the curriculum to teachers and the community; (5) involvement of students in two undergraduate ecology classes at San Diego State University with enhancements to the curriculum; and (6) freestanding, interactive kiosks with Internet-connected computers to be installed at central community areas (heritage or community centers, schools, or museums) in Barrow, Alaska, San Diego, California and La Paz, Mexico. Workshops via videoconference have been highly successful in the past at reaching K-8 teachers and students in Alaska and La Paz, utilizing facilities at San Diego State University, the San Diego County Office of Education, the North Slope Borough School District, and the Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR). The Web-based component of the project provides a versatile means of reaching the geographically diverse intended audience, as well as potentially reaching other audiences around the globe.