CoastLines

“信息线”是一个面向学生和教师的综合项目，将向7-12年级的学校介绍有关信息技术的基本概念。它将通过让教师和学生参与利用地理信息系统和全球定位系统对国家科学基金会长期生态研究网络中的沿海生态系统进行科学研究来实现这一目标。为了促进GIS在学校中的快速部署，覆盖IT行业中代表性不足的不同人群，并为项目战略的持续实施奠定基础，ESPLINES将利用在LTER网络中的四个地点进行的教育推广计划：佛罗里达沿海大沼泽地，莫雷阿珊瑚礁，圣巴巴拉沿海和弗吉尼亚海岸保护区。这些网站将提供有吸引力的沿海环境和令人兴奋的研究方案，以吸引参与者的心灵和思想，并提供如何在专业实践中使用信息技术的具体例子。LTER站点教育人员和研究调查人员作为导师和顾问的积极参与将使LTER科学个性化，使IT作为人类企业相关，并支持教师为学生调整和创建项目。通过ESPLINES促进的技能发展和教学实践将建立舒适度和能力，使用地理空间技术作为研究，决策，沟通和教学的工具。LTER网络的五个核心研究领域（初级生产、人口研究、有机物运动、无机物运动和干扰模式）将为教师和学生的工作提供重点，并与参与学校教授的课程建立联系。让教师创造活动，让参与者应用地理思维的五个步骤来调查这些研究领域的主题，将教授基础科学过程，并帮助学生理解科学和信息技术作为解决问题和改善地球状况的工具的重要性。

CoastLines is a Comprehensive Project for Students and Teachers that will introduce fundamental concepts about information technologies (IT) to grade 7-12 schools. It will accomplish this goal by involving teachers and students in using geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) to conduct scientific studies of coastal ecosystems in the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. To facilitate rapid deployment of GIS in schools, reach diverse populations that are underrepresented in the IT industries, and lay the foundation for sustained implementation of project strategies, CoastLines will leverage educational outreach programs conducted at four sites in the LTER network: Florida Coastal Everglades, Moorea Coral Reef, Santa Barbara Coastal, and Virginia Coast Reserve. These sites will afford attractive coastal settings and exciting research scenarios to engage the hearts and minds of participants and provide concrete examples of how IT is used in professional practice. Active involvement of LTER site educational staff and research investigators as mentors and advisors will personalize LTER science, make IT relevant as a human enterprise, and support teachers as they adapt and create projects for their students. Skill development and teaching practice facilitated by CoastLines will build comfort and competence with using geospatial technologies as tools for research, decision making, communication, and teaching. The five core areas of research for the LTER network (primary production, population studies, movement of organic matter, movement of inorganic matter, and disturbance patterns) will provide foci for teacher and student work and afford connections to the curriculum taught at participating schools. Having teachers create activities in which participants apply the five steps of geographic thinking to investigate topics in these areas of research will teach basic science process and help students understand the importance of science and IT as tools for solving problems and improving conditions on Earth.