HR: 0830h
AN: ED31D-1185    [PDF]
TI: Support and Dissemination of Teacher-Authored Lesson Plans: a Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) and Geological Society of America (GSA) Collaboration
AU: * Devaul, H
EM: devaul@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), DLESE Program Center PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80303 United States
AU: Pandya, R E
EM: pandya@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), DLESE Program Center PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80303 United States
AU: McLelland, C V
EM: cmclelland@geosociety.org
AF: Geological Society of America, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140 United States
AB: The Digital Library for Earth System Education (www.dlese.org) and the Geological Society of America (www.geosociety.org) are working together to publish and disseminate teacher-authored Earth science lesson plans. DLESE is a community-based effort involving teachers, students, and scientists working together to create a library of educational resources and services to support Earth system science education. DLESE offers free access to electronic resources including lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, and assessment activities. A number of thematic collections have recently been accessioned, which has substantially increased library holdings. Working in concert with GSA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences, small-scale resource creators such as classroom teachers without access to a web server can also share educational resources of their own design. Following a two-step process, lesson plans are submitted to the GSA website, reviewed and posted to the K-12 resource area: http://www.geosociety.org/educate/resources.htm. These resources are also submitted to the DLESE Community Collection using a simple cataloging tool. In this way resources are available to other teachers via the GSA website as well as via the DLESE collection. GSA provides a template for lesson plan developers which assists in providing the necessary information to help users find and understand the intent of the activity when searching in DLESE. This initial effort can serve as a prototype for important services allowing individual community members to contribute their work to DLESE with little technical overhead.
UR: http://www.dlese.org
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting