Teachers on the Leading Edge: 2005 Teacher Workshop

该奖项支持一个旨在发展“前沿教师”项目的研讨会。太平洋西北地区是发展创新的地球科学教师专业发展项目的主要地点，该项目使教师能够将课堂学习更直接地与地方联系起来，并展示地球科学与日常生活的相关性。前沿教师（TOTLE）是一个专业发展项目，旨在让K-12教师和他们的学生参与太平洋西北活跃大陆边缘的地质和地球物理学，即北美的前沿。前沿教师将与K-12教师一起对太平洋西北地区的板块边缘地质学进行实地研究，研究其过去和现在的板块构造过程，以及这种地质遗产的社会影响，从了解气候变化到潜在的地质灾害。通过对活动大陆边缘地质学的解决问题的方法，TOTLE教师将获得地质调查的经验和协议，区域地质的地方感，吸引学生学习“他们的地质学”的能力，以及了解地质学家如何发展我们目前的理解状态，并通过像EarthScope这样的项目推进知识前沿。节目主题包括：(1)从大地震到火山活动和地体增生的大陆形成的辐合边缘过程；(2)利用John Day化石床研究3000万年动植物演替和古气候变化的地球系统科学；(3)地球物理研究，阐明树木覆盖景观下的地质，并介绍EarthScope的USArray和板块边界观测实验；(4)地质灾害作为生活在我们大陆前沿的方面。指导原则是使TOTLE对K-12教师具有邀请性、可访问性和有用性，以便他们能够将太平洋西北地区的地质学介绍给各种教育水平的地球科学学习者。

This award supports a workshop for development of the Teachers on the Leading Edge program. The Pacific Northwest is a prime location for developing innovative Earth Science teacher professional development programs that empower teachers to connect classroom learning more directly to place and demonstrate the relevance of Earth Science to everyday life. Teachers on the Leading Edge (TOTLE) is a professional development program designed to engage K-12 teachers and their students in the geology and geophysics of the Pacific Northwest active continental margin, the leading edge of North America. Teachers on the Leading Edge will engage K-12 teachers in field study of plate margin geology in the Pacific Northwest, its past and present plate tectonic processes, and the societal implications of this geologic heritage, from understanding climate change to potential geologic hazards. Through a problem-solving approach to active continental margin geology, TOTLE teachers will gain experience and protocols for geologic inquiry, a regional geologic sense of place, the ability to engage students in learning "their geology", and appreciation for how geologists developed our current state of understanding and are advancing frontiers of knowledge through projects like EarthScope. Program themes include: (1) Convergent margin processes from great earthquakes to continent building through volcanism and terrane accretion; (2) Earth System Science using the John Day Fossil Beds to investigate a 30-million-year record of faunal and floral succession and paleoclimate changes; (3) geophysical studies that illuminate the geology beneath the tree-covered landscape and provide an introduction to EarthScope's USArray and Plate Boundary Observatory experiments; and (4) geologic hazards as aspects of living on the leading edge of our continent. A guiding principle is to make TOTLE invitational, accessible, and useful to K-12 teachers so they can carry Pacific Northwest geology to learners of Earth Science at a wide range of educational levels.