Habitat Ecology Training Program, A Project to Train Elementary School Teachers in the Use of Zoological Collections to Enhance Science Education

栖息地生态学培训计划，培训小学教师利用动物学藏品加强科学教育的项目

• 批准号: 9050268
• 负责人: Annette Berkovits
• 金额: $ 59.36万
• 依托单位: Wildlife Conservation Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-11-01 至 1995-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9050268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Habitat; Ecology; Training; Program; Project

The purpose of this program enhance the ability of elementary school teachers to use the collections of zoos as living laboratories for their students. Teachers from New York City as well as teams of teachers from across the United States will take part in the project. To support such widespread activity, fifteen additional zoos will participate directly sending a team of zoo educators and local teachers. Ecology will be the overarching theme of the inservice activity and the participants will learn to use the zoo as an outdoor classroom for teaching about the earth's biomes and animal adaptations to habitats. Specifically, the workshop series will highlight problems associated with endangered species, and will target the study of rain forests, deserts, wetlands, deciduous forests and grasslands. As a result of the inservice a teachers' manual will be produced which will support the participants as they work with others to improve the teaching of life science at the elementary level. The manual will also have many suggestions about inquiry activities that can be done at zoos or before or after visits. It will be a valuable resource to teachers as well as others who are responsible introducing children to wealth of ideas, concepts and process that can be learned by studying animals in the zoo environment. The cost sharing for the project will be thirty percent of the NSF portion.

该计划的目的是提高小学教师将动物园藏品用作学生生活实验室的能力。 来自纽约市的教师以及来自美国各地的教师团队将参加该项目。为了支持这种广泛的活动，另外 15 个动物园将直接派出一支由动物园教育工作者和当地教师组成的团队参加。 生态学将是此次活动的首要主题，参与者将学习如何使用动物园作为户外教室，教授地球生物群落和动物对栖息地的适应。 具体来说，该研讨会系列将突出与濒危物种相关的问题，并将针对雨林、沙漠、湿地、落叶林和草原的研究。 服务结束后，将制作一本教师手册，该手册将为参与者与其他人合作改进初级生命科学教学提供支持。 该手册还将提供许多关于可以在动物园或参观之前或之后进行的询问活动的建议。 对于教师和其他负责向孩子们介绍丰富的思想、概念和过程的人来说，这将是宝贵的资源，这些思想、概念和过程可以通过在动物园环境中研究动物来学习。 该项目的费用分摊将是 NSF 部分的百分之三十。