Teaching Ecosystem Complexity through Field Science Inquiry

这个为期四年的项目为高中教师提供了一本培训手册、网络资源和实地生态学培训机会。教师专业发展由专业发展提供者（pdp）、科学家团队、科学教育者和提供在职教师培训的经验丰富的教师领导。一些PDP位于自然中心或类似的地点，在那里PDP从事生态研究。培训手册为课堂教师从事真正的生态研究提供了指导。该项目基于五个长期生态研究（LTER）站点的科学家和教育工作者先前的工作，旨在增加教师对生态概念的内容知识，提高他们的高级思维技能，并使更多的西班牙裔学生对生态学产生兴趣。为了支持后一个目标，项目的材料被翻译成西班牙语。五个地点中的四个地点征聘了精通西班牙语的教师，对西班牙语材料进行试点和实地测试。

This four-year project results in a training manual, web-based resources, and training opportunities in field-based ecology for high school teachers. The teacher professional development is led by Professional Development Providers (PDPs), teams of scientists, science educators and experienced teachers who provide in-service teacher training. Some PDP are located at nature centers and similar sites where PDPs engage in ecological research. The training manual provides directions for engaging classroom teachers in real ecological research. The project is based upon prior work by scientists and educators in five Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and is designed to increase teacher content knowledge in ecological concepts, improve their higher level thinking skills and interest more Hispanic students in ecology. To support the latter objective the project's materials are translated into Spanish. Recruitment of teachers who are proficient in Spanish for pilot and field-testing of the materials in Spanish occurs at four of the five sites.