Engaging Alaska Natives with the Geosciences - Track 2

在这个项目中，WGBH教育基金会将与阿拉斯加本土科学委员会（AKNSC）、阿拉斯加大学/费尔班克斯分校（UAF）、阿拉斯加员工发展网络（ASDN）、美国能源部洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室的大气辐射测量（ARM）项目以及教育发展中心（EDC）的儿童与技术中心（CCT）合作。该项目的主要目标是通过K-12教育多媒体倡议，使阿拉斯加土著学生和他们的老师参与地球科学。主要项目活动包括：-开发教师领域的新资源集（WGBH的NSDL K-12路径门户网站），重点关注气候变化及其对北极生态系统的相关威胁，突出除西方科学观点外的土著世界观，并展示在地球科学领域学习和工作的阿拉斯加原住民的视频肖像。-为初中和高中教师开发一个关于北极气候变化的在线专业发展课程模块，利用收集的资源来提高内容知识和教学技能。——开发和试点以《土法认知》为基础的远程教育课程。-为阿拉斯加教师提供面对面的培训和支持课程。会议的核心将是在安克雷奇举行的为期数天的研讨会，参加者来自阿拉斯加所有53个学区。这个项目可能会影响到在阿拉斯加学校注册的大约13万名学生，其中近四分之一（约3.2万人）是阿拉斯加原住民。此外，截至2007年3月，Teachers' Domain覆盖了美国近40%的K-12公立学校，每月有40万用户访问该网站。这些访问者也将有机会使用在这项资助下开发的教师领域资源。

In this project, WGBH Educational Foundation will partner with the Alaska Native Science Commission (AKNSC), the University of Alaska/Fairbanks (UAF), the Alaska Staff Development Network (ASDN), and the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Center for Children and Technology (CCT) at the Educational Development Center (EDC). The primary goal of the project is to engage Alaska Native students and their teachers with the Geosciences, through a K-12 educational multimedia initiative. Major project activities include:- Developing a new resource collection on Teachers' Domain (WGBH's K-12 Pathways Portal of the NSDL), focusing on climate change and related threats to the Arctic ecosystem, highlighting indigenous worldviews in addition to Western science perspectives, and featuring video portraits of Alaska Natives who study and work in geosciences. - Developing an online professional development course module on Arctic climate change for middle and high school teachers, using resources from the collection to improve both content knowledge and pedagogical skills.- Developing and piloting a distance-learning course based on the "Native Ways of Knowing" television series.- Running face-to-face training and support sessions for Alaska teachers. The centerpiece will be a multi-day workshop in Anchorage, with invitees from all 53 Alaska school districts.This project could potentially impact the approximately 130,000 students enrolled in Alaska schools, nearly 1/4 of whom, or about 32,000, are Alaska Natives. In addition, as of March, 2007, Teachers' Domain reaches nearly 40 percent of K-12 public schools in the U.S. and 400,000 user visits a month are now coming to the site. These visitors will also have access to the Teachers' Domain resources developed under this grant.