HR: 1330h
AN: ED22C-1244    [PDF]
TI: Atmospheric Aerosols Project: A GLOBE Student-Teacher-Scientist Partnership
AU: Brooks, D
EM: dbrooks@mcs.drexel.edu
AF: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Drexel University, 173 Randell, Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
AU: Holzer, M
EM: mholzer@monmouth.com
AF: Chatham Hish School, 425 Crowell Road, Chatham, NJ 02633 United States
AU: * Ledley, T S
EM: Tamara_Ledley@terc.edu
AF: TERC, 2067 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
AB: The National Science Education Standards (NSES) emphasize that students should learn science through inquiry and should understand the concepts and processes that shape our natural world. One method of accomplishing these goals is to provide students and teachers with opportunities to participate in scientists' ongoing research. The GLOBE program has done this to an extent through the involvement of students in taking environmental observations and reporting them in a useful way. However, in this project we move the teachers and students beyond the collection of data, to engage them in an interesting scientific question that they have formulated on their own, perhaps with the help of a teacher and a participating scientist. In collaboration with a scientist and their teacher, the students address their question by collecting the necessary data, performing an analysis of the data, drawing conclusions, and reporting the results. In this way, the ideal of real scientific inquiry is pursued through more formal relationships among scientists, teachers and students. David Brooks, a GLOBE Science PI, has been conducting research to learn more about how the concentration of atmospheric aerosols varies in time and space, and how those variations may be related to other changes on the planet. Students can support Dr. Brooks' research while engaging in a research project of their own. A description of the project provided for teachers and students can be found at the following url http://essn.terc.edu/projects/proj_brooks01/ovrvw_01.cfm In this presentation we will describe our activities from the 2002-2003 school year during which we involved three schools (two in New Jersey and one in North Carolina) in the atmospheric aerosols research project; and our plans for the 2003-2004 school year with possibly more than six schools.
UR: http://essn.terc.edu/projects/proj_brooks01/ovrvw_01.cfm
DE: 6600 PUBLIC ISSUES
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 6699 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting