Geoscience Education in Public Parks: Harriman State Park, NY

公园中的地球科学教育：哈里曼州立公园，纽约

• 批准号: 0122011
• 负责人: Alexander Gates
• 金额: $ 7.49万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0122011&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geoscience; Education; Public; Parks; Harriman

ABSTRACTGeoscience Education in Public Parks: Harriman State Park, New YorkA universal model is being developed for Geoscience education in public parks near urban centers. This phase of the project will be to develop an educational videotape and a website. The model is being developed in the 75,000 acre Harriman-Bear Mountain-Sterling Forest State Park, 25 miles to the north of New York City in the Hudson Highlands. The park nowreceives 4.2 million visitors annually including a large proportion of groups who are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. Outstanding roadside and trailside rock exposures beautifully illustrate fundamental principles of Geology, Mining, Environmental Science, and Civil Engineering. Through them, visitors will be provided with an exciting, hands-on science education experience. One area of geology that is especially well illustrated is that developed during the Rodinian tectonic cycle. An ongoing research project on this aspect of the geology involves five researchers from different schools and their students. The results of these ongoing investigations will be integrated into both the videotape and website. The videotape will be made using new footage from the park as well as film resources donated by ABC Inc. and will be widely distributed to participating museums,schools, and recreational groups. Interlinks within the site will explain the science and scientific data that leads to the explanations presented. Topics for field trips will be largely based upon NJ and NY Science Educational Standards for ready use in K-12 curricula.

摘要 公园中的地球科学教育：纽约州哈里曼州立公园正在为城市中心附近的公园中的地球科学教育开发通用模型。该项目的这一阶段将开发一个教育录像带和一个网站。该模型正在占地 75,000 英亩的哈里曼熊山斯特林森林州立公园开发，该公园位于纽约市以北 25 英里的哈德逊高地。该公园现在每年接待 420 万名游客，其中很大一部分是传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体。出色的路边和步道岩石暴露精美地阐释了地质学、采矿、环境科学和土木工程的基本原理。通过它们，参观者将获得令人兴奋的、实践性的科学教育体验。地质学的一个特别突出的领域是在罗迪尼构造周期期间发展起来的。正在进行的关于地质学这方面的研究项目涉及来自不同学校的五名研究人员及其学生。这些正在进行的调查的结果将被整合到录像带和网站中。该录像带将使用公园的新镜头以及 ABC 公司捐赠的电影资源制作，并将广泛分发给参与的博物馆、学校和娱乐团体。网站内的链接将解释科学和科学数据，从而得出所提出的解释。实地考察的主题将主要基于新泽西州和纽约州的科学教育标准，以便在 K-12 课程中使用。