HR: 16:30h
AN: ED44A-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Supporting Inquiry-based Earth System Science Instruction with Middle and High School Earth Science Teachers
AU: * Finkel, L
EM: liza.finkel@unh.edu
AF: Department of Education University of New Hampshire, Morrill Hall 62 College Road, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Varner, R
EM: ruth.varner@unh.edu
AF: Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Morse Hall University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Froburg, E
EM: erik.froburg@unh.edu
AF: Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Morse Hall University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Froburg, E
EM: erik.froburg@unh.edu
AF: Joan and James Leitzel Center for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education, University of New Hampshire 138 Parsons Hall 23 College Rd., Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Smith, M
EM: mas3@cisunix.unh.edu
AF: Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire 121 James Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Graham, K
EM: karen.graham@unh.edu
AF: Joan and James Leitzel Center for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education, University of New Hampshire 138 Parsons Hall 23 College Rd., Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Hale, S
EM: steve.hale@unh.edu
AF: Joan and James Leitzel Center for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Education, University of New Hampshire 138 Parsons Hall 23 College Rd., Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Laura, G
EM: uxg3@psu.edu
AF: Department of Earth Sciences, Penn State Delaware County, Media, PA 19063, United States
AU: Brown, D
EM: dpbrown@lsu.edu
AF: Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
AU: Bryce, J
EM: julie.bryce@unh.edu
AF: Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire 121 James Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Darwish, A
EM: adarwish@bellsouth.net
AF: Department of Physics, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA 70112,
AU: Furman, T
EM: furman@geosc.psu.edu
AF: Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802,
AU: Johnson, J
EM: joel.johnson@unh.edu
AF: Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire 121 James Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Porter, W
EM: waporter@mail.ecsu.edu
AF: Dept. of Geological, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Elizabeth City State University Campus Box 971, Elizabeth City, NC 27909,
AU: Von Damm, K
EM: kvd@guero.sr.unh.edu
AF: Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Morse Hall University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Von Damm, K
EM: kvd@guero.sr.unh.edu
AF: Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire 121 James Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AB: The Transforming Earth System Science Education (TESSE) project, a partnership between faculty at the University of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania State University, Elizabeth City State University and Dillard University, is designed to enrich the professional development of in-service and pre-service Earth science teachers. One goal of this effort is to help teachers use an inquiry-based approach to teaching Earth system science in their classrooms. As a part of the TESSE project, 42 pre-service and in-service teachers participated in an intensive two-week summer institute at UNH taught by Earth scientists and science educators from TESSE partnership institutions. The institute included instruction about a range of Earth science system topics as well as an introduction to teaching Earth science using an inquiry-based approach. In addition to providing teachers with information about inquiry-based science teaching in the form of sample lesson plans and opportunities to revise traditional lessons and laboratory exercises to make them more inquiry-based, TESSE instructors modeled an inquiry- based approach in their own teaching as much as possible. By the end of the Institute participants had developed lesson plans, units, or year-long course overviews in which they were expected to explain the ways in which they would include an inquiry-based approach in their Earth science teaching over the course of the school year. As a part of the project, graduate fellows (graduate students in the earth sciences) will work with classroom teachers during the academic year to support their implementation of these plans as well as to assist them in developing a more comprehensive inquiry-based approach in the classroom.
DE: 0825 Teaching methods
DE: 0830 Teacher training
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting