HR: 17:08h
AN: ED34A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: History of Winter (HOW): A Field Science Teacher as Scientist (TAS) Training Model
AU: * Wasilewski, P J
EM: U1pjw@lepvax.gsfc.gov
AF: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, code 691, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Gabrys, R
EM: Robert.E.Gabrys@nasa.gov
AF: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, code 130, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Bender, K
EM: kbender@pop400.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, code 130, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: Each year the NASA (Goddard )History of Winter (HOW) program allows teachers to understand the consequences of one segment of the orbit of the tilted earth in its path around the sun. Scientists from NASA, CRREL, and Michigan Tech, supported by the Whiteface Observatory, and the science program at Northwood School in Lake Placid, New York use the weather and the stratigraphy in the ice and snow, that are the consequences of the weather changes, as "teachers" in a team study of the winter record. Snow in the air and on the ground, ice, its crystal structure and axial orientation, and the ecosystem consequences of snow and ice constitute the weeklong content package. Teacher Professional Development Standards A, B, C, and D were the guiding principles in developing HOW. The content structure was formulated as sets of protocols that could serve as inserts into lesson plans and inquiry guidelines. The concept of HOW within NASA is to provide understanding of the "WHY?" and "WHAT?" of satellite remote sensing. The content is appropriate ground validation. Techniques presented in protocols are identical to those used by professionals who study snow pits, evaluate features in snow metamorphism, and study thin sections of ice cores drilled in ice caps and glaciers. Tools that are used, such as the I-button thermochron, polarizer sheets, and density tubes are taken back to the schools to be used throughout the year in a variety of ways that are described in the weeklong HOW event. The HOW Teacher as Scientist (TAS) model is a flexible model. HOW enables teachers who are required to use inquiry-based facilitation in the classroom to experience inquiry themselves. Teachers with little science content background as well as those with Science degrees have participated in HOW with accommodations for differentiation of instruction so that each group leaves with a mastery of the content that is appropriate for the transition to presentation in the classroom. Each year builds on the previous year ensuring a time series record of the history of winter-by itself a learning experience. http://www.blueiceonline.org http://www.historyofwinter.org
UR: http://howexcite.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0830 Teacher training
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
SC: Education and Human Resourcese [ED]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting