HR: 14:25h
AN: ED13A-04 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: AccessData: Opening Effective Lines of Communication Between IPY Scientists and Educators to Bring IPY Data Into the Classroom
AU: * Ledley, T S
EM: Tamara_Ledley@terc.edu
AF: TERC, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140, United States
AU: Dahlman, L
EM: LuAnn_Dahlman@terc.edu
AF: TERC, 2067 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140, United States
AU: Domenico, B
EM: ben@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: Unidata, UCAR, PO Box 3008, Boulder, CO 80307, United States
AU: Taber, M R
EM: Mike.Taber@ColoradoCollege.edu
AF: The Colorado College, 14 East Cache la Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903, United States
AB: Creating learning modules that utilize IPY data requires knowledge about the data, science, curriculum design, and educational context. The AccessData group has designed a 2.5 day workshop and follow-up strategy to facilitate the creation of effective IPY data-rich educational modules, making this data more accessible and usable by educators and students. Planning for the AccessData Workshop begins with the identification of teams of experts that include data providers, tool specialists, scientists, curriculum developers, and educators. Each team focuses on specific geoscience datasets and analysis tools. Prior to and during the workshop, each team is given a set of tasks that lead to developing an educational activity. The teams have time to work together at the workshop and the services of a professional curriculum developer who completes the learning activity after the workshop is over. Work begun at the workshop culminates when the activity is published as a chapter in the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET, http://serc.carleton.edu/eet). The theme of the 2007 AccessData Workshop was IPY and Global Climate Change. This resulted in four of the ten teams focusing their efforts on IPY issues and data, and will result in at least four new EET chapters covering topics such as: 1) the collapse of the Larsen Ice Shelf, 2) changes in Arctic sea ice extent over the past 30 years, 3) the impact of climate changes in Alaska on the plant phenology, and 4) the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. In addition to developing outlines of educational modules on these topics, the teams also work together to produce a set of educationally relevant metadata for the datasets they plan to use in their activities. These are called DataSheets (http://serc.carleton.edu/usingdata/browse_sheets.html); and they enable educators, students, and other non-specialists to access the datasets and use them for learning. This presentation will focus on how the workshop facilitates the communication between IPY scientists and educational communities. It will also provide an overview of IPY-related EET chapters and how they can be integrated into teacher professional development programs and classrooms.
UR: http://serc.carleton.edu/usingdata/accessdata
DE: 0700 CRYOSPHERE (4540)
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0830 Teacher training
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting