HR: 1340h
AN: ED33A-0757    [Abstracts]
TI: Teacher Directed Design: Content Knowledge, Pedagogy and Assessment under the Nevada K-12 Real-Time Seismic Network
AU: Cantrell, P
EM: pamcan@unr.edu
AF: Raggio Research Center for STEM Education, College of Education MS/432 University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 89557 United States
AU: Ewing-Taylor, J
EM: jacque@unr.edu
AF: Raggio Research Center for STEM Education, College of Education MS/432 University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 89557 United States
AU: Crippen, K J
EM: kcrippen@unlv.nevada.edu
AF: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education University of Nevada Las Vegas PO Box 453001 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-3001 United States
AU: * Smith, K D
EM: ken@seismo.unr.edu
AF: Seismological Laboratory, Mackay School of Earth Sciences MS/174 University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 89557 United States
AU: Snelson, C M
EM: csnelson@unlv.nevada.edu
AF: Geoscience Department, University of Nevada Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway MS/4010, Las Vegas, NV 89514-4010 United States
AB: Education professionals and seismologists under the emerging SUN (Shaking Up Nevada) program are leveraging the existing infrastructure of the real-time Nevada K-12 Seismic Network to provide a unique inquiry based science experience for teachers. The concept and effort are driven by teacher needs and emphasize rigorous content knowledge acquisition coupled with the translation of that knowledge into an integrated seismology based earth sciences curriculum development process. We are developing a pedagogical framework, graduate level coursework, and materials to initiate the SUN model for teacher professional development in an effort to integrate the research benefits of real-time seismic data with science education needs in Nevada. A component of SUN is to evaluate teacher acquisition of qualified seismological and earth science information and pedagogy both in workshops and in the classroom and to assess the impact on student achievement. SUN's mission is to positively impact earth science education practices. With the upcoming EarthScope initiative, the program is timely and will incorporate EarthScope real-time seismic data (USArray) and educational materials in graduate course materials and teacher development programs. A number of schools in Nevada are contributing real-time data from both inexpensive and high-quality seismographs that are integrated with Nevada regional seismic network operations as well as the IRIS DMC. A powerful and unique component of the Nevada technology model is that schools can receive "stable" continuous live data feeds from 100's seismograph stations in Nevada, California and world (including live data from Earthworm systems and the IRIS DMC BUD - Buffer of Uniform Data). Students and teachers see their own networked seismograph station within a global context, as participants in regional and global monitoring. The robust real-time Internet communications protocols invoked in the Nevada network provide for local data acquisition, remote multi-channel data access, local time-series data management, interactive multi-window waveform display and time-series analysis with centralized meta-data control. Formally integrating educational seismology into the K-12 science curriculum with an overall "positive" impact to science education practices necessarily requires a collaborative effort between professional educators and seismologists yet driven exclusively by teacher needs.
UR: http://www.seismo.unr.edu/k12network
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
DE: 0994 Instruments and techniques
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting