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AN: ED21C-0074    [Abstracts]
TI: The ERESE Project: Modeling Inquiry-Based Plate Tectonic Lessons
AU: * Symons, C M
EM: csymons@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0220, La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 United States
AU: Helly, M
EM: Hellymc@mail.bay.k12.fl.us
AF: A.C. Mosley High School, 501 N. Mosley Dr., Lynn Haven, FL 32444 United States
AU: Helly, J
EM: jhelly@ucsd.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Miller, S P
EM: spmiller@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0220, La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 United States
AU: Staudigel, H
EM: hstaudig@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0225, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Koppers, A
EM: akoppers@ucsd.edu
AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0225, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AB: The Enduring Resources for Earth Science Education (ERESE) project is a collaborative effort between earth scientists, educators, librarians and data archive managers. Its goal is to develop and maintain a persistent online research and education archive in a digital library environment that supports earth science education in plate tectonics. A key to the library's effectiveness as an educational tool is the efficiency with which educators can access, use and contribute to the library. We have created a master template that educators use to develop inquiry-based curriculum. The central components of the master template include a teacher log, a student log and resource matrices. The teacher's log is divided into stages that reflect our approach to inquiry. This approach was used during a workshop as scientists worked with the teachers to model a reasonable pedagogical analog to scientific inquiry. The student log is similar in structure to a scientific method lab report. There are currently 17 resource matrices that directly access canonical education objects in the digital library, 3 of which relate to expedition planning and 14 to plate tectonics. The structure of the resource matrices allows teachers and students to traverse manageable packets of information relating to a specific topic by expert level (rows) and information type (columns). Teachers download and customize the master template using any web composer and are then invited to upload their lessons through a simple interface at Earthref.org. Once uploaded the lessons become part of the ERESE digital library collection. The upload process allows teachers to define keywords and metadata to allow useful searches by topic, concept or educational standard. The use of a single master template for inquiry lesson design means library contributions will share a common format as well as exploit identical plate tectonic resources.
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting