Collaborative Research: CLES 4: College-Level Earth Science for Secondary School Students

合作研究：CLES 4：面向中学生的大学水平地球科学CLES4(面向中学生的大学水平地球科学)项目将创建一门大学水平的地球科学课程，高中生可因此获得大学学分。该项目代表了南加州高中和当地大学之间的合作。这个项目的目标是解决缺少地球科学高级选修课程的问题，这使得顶尖高中生在教育阶段接触地球科学变得极其困难，因为地球科学可能会影响他们对大学、大学课程、专业和职业道路的选择。CLES4的最初合作涉及在哈佛-西湖学院教授一门荣誉地质学课程。荣誉地质学课程将涵盖与加州大学洛杉矶分校地球和空间科学1F相同的内容，学生将因此获得加州大学洛杉矶分校的学分。这一初始课程将作为其他高中和合作大学的典范。该课程将遵循加州科学内容标准，并允许更多的加州学校教授地球科学主题，这些主题目前在标准的高中科学课程中很少涉及。CLES4是为那些在高中很少接触地球科学教育的学生设计的，尽管他们对科学有很强的能力和兴趣。参加大学级地球科学课程的学生将发现如何将他们的基础化学、物理和数学知识应用于更广泛的地球系统科学理解中。预计这些新获得的地球科学知识将激励学生更深入地钻研数学和其他科学，以解决地球科学问题。该项目将致力于将这种模式推广到加州的其他学校和大学，然后通过教师研讨会、网站和出版物的方式推广到美国其他地区。通过在高中教师和大学教师之间建立一个网络，该项目还将促进指导以及教学方法和课程的交流。

Collaborative Research: CLES 4: College-level Earth Science for Secondary School StudentsThe CLES4 (College-Level Earth Science for Secondary School Students) project will create a college-level geoscience course for which high-school students may earn college credit. The project represents a collaboration between southern California high schools and local universities. The goal of this project is to address the lack of an Advanced Placement course in Geoscience which makes it extremely difficult to expose top high school students to the geosciences at a stage of their education where it can potentially influence their selections of colleges, college coursework, majors, and career paths. The initial collaboration of CLES4 involves the teaching of an Honors Geology class at Harvard-Westlake School. The Honors Geology class will cover the same content as UCLA's Earth and Space Sciences 1F, for which the students will receive UCLA credit. This initial course offering will serve as a model for other high schools and collaborating universities. The course will adhere to California Science Content Standards and allow more California schools to teach Earth science topics that are presently rarely covered in standard high-school science classes. CLES4 is designed for students who are rarely exposed to Geoscience education in high school, despite their strong ability and interest in science. Students who take a college-level geoscience class will discover how their knowledge of fundamental Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics can be applied and integrated into a broader understanding of Earth System science. It is expected that this newly gained knowledge of Geoscience will inspire students to delve deeper into math and the other sciences in order to solve Geoscience problems. The project will work to spread this model to other schools and universities in California, and then to the rest of the country by means of teacher workshops, websites, and publications. By creating a network among high-school teachers and university faculty, the project will also facilitate mentoring and the exchange of teaching methods and curricula.