Academic Years 1998-2000
Products - Modules
(Ambos, Henriques, et. al.) Ambos and Henriques have worked with a group of
students
and faculty developing web pages, suitable for pre-service teachers. The major source for this
funding was the USRA-ESSE contract to San Diego State University (with subcontract to
California State University at Long Beach), but there are aspects of the product development
in the last six months that are greatly influenced by our ALERT participation. We used the
JPL web site (
click here
) as a source for some of the images. Two
sites have been extensively reviewed: Land Slide Talk Story and Virtual Field Trip. The
first is a tutorial on mass wasting with images, text and questions related to factors
influencing mass wasting. There are teaching related tips including related K-12 science
standards, classroom activities and field trips around southern California. The geology
of the region is discussed along with directions to each location, geologic maps and
tutorial information about various geologic features. Over three hundred students at CSULB
have reviewed these web sites and given us design guidance in the past year.
The Virtual Field Trip web site has recently been selected for inclusion in the
"UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology" as
an
excellent example of web-based field trips.
(Henriques) During summer 1999 worked with Marguerite Syvertson (JPL)
and the
AIRS project to evaluate existing curricula, review standards and misconceptions in order
to make recommendations re: direction for AIRS outreach. She has prepared a detailed
report that is available upon request. She also developed the CSULB ALERT web page (
click here).
Other CSULB ALERT modules and programs can be found on the CSULB Developed Products web page.
Outcomes - Changes to Existing Courses and New Courses:
(Henriques) Observed CSULB's introductory geology class (GEOL102)
throughout
the fall 1998 semester. This course is taken by prospective elementary teachers and
prospective secondary teachers, and often represents their only exposure to earth
systems science. The observation process allowed for two important results: (1)
cross-fertilization of content and pedagogy techniques between instructors teaching
GEOL102, and SCED 401 (the integrated science/pedagogy course offered through science
education), (2) preparation to team teach a geology unit in CSULB's science capstone
class in spring 1999 semester. The team teaching also involves other science education
faculty as they are beginning to incorporate more geology into their courses. Specific
changes during fall 1998-spring 1999 include different lab activities in SCED 401
(eco-columns and landslides).
Outcomes - Standards and Guidelines
(Ambos, Henriques) participated on revising teacher
preparation program at
CSULB to blend science content and pedagogy more effectively, to form a 4 year program. This Integrated Teacher Education Program enrolled its first students in Fall 1999.
Bruce Perry is developing an earth science focused course for future teachers that will
be taught under this new blended curriculum.
Accomplishments - Awards or Related Grants
(Ambos) Co-wrote a proposal for renovating teacher education in the sciences
and math at CSULB. This proposal was submitted to the National Science Foundation in
September 1998, and was funded in May 1999. This proposal will broaden
CSULB's institutional commitment to excellence in teacher education in math and science
through partnerships
with Long Beach City College and Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD). The
program
includes some funding for visits to/internships at JPL for future teachers.
Documentation of Culture Change - New Collaborations,
Infusing of Outcomes/Products/Lessons-Learned-as-a-Result-of-ALERT Into Teaching or
Professional Development
Henriques and Ambos attended a NOVA workshop at GSFC in May 1999, and
gave
presentations on ALERT to NOVA educators and NASA scientists.
(Henriques) Conducted a preliminary assessment of activities on different
campuses in the southern tier of ALERT. She visited the southern CSU campuses during
fall 1998, and again in spring-summer 1999. She interviewed ALERT participants as to
their attitudes and goals at the beginning of the ALERT endeavor. Preliminary findings
from her research were shared at the fall 1998 AGU meeting in San Francisco, and at the
January AETS meeting. The text of her paper is available upon request.
(Henriques) Joined an Earth Science Education Researchers group through
NARST.
She has begun preliminary conversations with science education colleagues about
collaborative research projects. She has also begun to work with colleagues in the
College of Education at CSULB, to discuss collaborations between social studies methods
courses and science methods courses for future teachers.
(Ambos) Prime organizer of both a special session at the AGU meeting and a
meeting of southern California ALERT participants at CSULB. Another part of her duties
involves developing relationships with other pre-service teacher preparation initiatives
developed within AGU, Sigma Xi, LACTE, MASTEP, etc., as well as with other NASA
pre-service
teacher education initiatives such as NOVA and ESSE. She has also been named to the
Geoscience Digital Library Steering Committee, which is preparing to frame the design
parameters of the NSF-NASA sponsored initiative.
CSUN/CSULB: (Henriques, Hawkins) Wrote and presented a paper about the collaborations within the ALERT project.
Mutual Education - Workshop and Conference Reports
ALL-ALERT: Ellen Metzger co-convened (with Beth Ambos) a special session
at the Fall 1998 AGU meeting on earth science education; Toby Garfield, Edward Ng,
and Beth Ambos co-convened a special session on partnerships in education at the Fall
1999 AGU.
ALL-ALERT: Three major all-ALERT meetings have been held, one at Ames Research
Center
in Mountain View, California in December 1998, one at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, California in April 1999 and one at Vandenberg Air Force Base on February
14, 2000.
(Ambos) Presented information about ALERT at
the USRA-ESSE meeting in July of
1998, at the fall 1998 and 1999 AGU meetings, and at the NASA-ESE retreat in October
1999.
CSUN/CSULB: (Henriques, Hawkins) Their paper on the
ALERT collaboration: Intracampus
and Intercampus Collaborations: Lessons Learned, was presented at the annual meeting
of Association for the Education of Teachers of Science (AETS), Akron, OH Jan 2000.
(Henriques) Presented a paper on "Children’s misconceptions about
weather: A review of the literature" at the April 2000 National Association for the
Research on Science Teaching (NARST) meeting in New Orleans.
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