Teaching Science Teachers about Masters of Disaster in Socioeconomically and Climatologically Vulnerable Counties of Georgia

该项目旨在加强K-8地球科学教育在格鲁吉亚通过使用一个创新的，但未得到充分利用的天气科学和安全课程，红十字会灾害硕士（国防部）课程。主要研究者在2011年和2012年夏天为格鲁吉亚三个选定的县组（Bibb、Brantley/Glynn和Calhoun）的大约三十（30）名科学教师举办了一系列为期一周的专业发展讲习班，这些县组在社会经济和气候上易受恶劣和极端天气条件的影响。这些讲习班的重点是向教师讲授红十字会国防部为K-8学生开设的天气科学和安全课程。对讲习班效果的评估将确定对教师学习的影响，并最终确定学生学了什么，学了多少，以及教师在参加讲习班后讲授国防部课程时带回家的知识。这些研讨会的小规模版本，在过去两年中提供的格鲁吉亚大学与教师质量补助金的支持下，已经表明，这些研讨会在增加科学教师的天气和气候素养有很大的希望。 预计该项目将提供有关国防部课程有效性的有用数据，以增加学生的天气科学和安全知识，并在学生及其家庭中促进天气安全文化。

This project seeks to strengthen K-8 geoscience education in the state of Georgia through the use of an innovative but underutilized weather science and safety curriculum, the Red Cross Masters of Disaster (MoD) curriculum. The principal investigators are conducting a series of week-long professional development workshops in the summer of 2011 and 2012 for approximately thirty (30) science teachers in each of three selected county groups (Bibb, Brantley/Glynn, and Calhoun) of Georgia that are socio-economically and climatologically vulnerable to severe and extreme weather conditions. The workshops focus on teaching teachers about the Red Cross MoD weather science and safety curriculum for K-8 students. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the workshops will determine impact on teacher learning, and eventually on what students learn, how much they learn, and what knowledge they take home with them when teachers deliver the MoD curriculum after attending the workshop. Smaller scale versions of these workshops, offered for the past two years at the University of Georgia with support by a Teacher Quality grant, have indicated that these workshops have much promise in increasing science teacher's weather and climate literacy. It is expected that this project will provide useful data on the effectiveness of the MoD curriculum to increase students' knowledge of weather science and safety and to promote a culture of weather safety in students and their families.