Transcript Using DLESE: Finding Resources to Enhance Teaching Holly Devaul Shelley Olds 17 March 2004

Using DLESE: Finding
Resources to Enhance Teaching
Holly Devaul
Shelley Olds
17 March 2004
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Overview
• What challenges do educators face when
searching for resources?
• What is the Digital Library for Earth System
Education (DLESE)?
• How can I use DLESE to find resources that
help my teaching and
 support FOSS kit instruction
 offer ideas for a field investigation project
• Hands-on exploration of DLESE
• Report out/reflection
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Challenges in finding resources
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How can I find good “stuff”?
Can it be integrated quickly?
Is it versatile?
Will it motivate students?
Is it aligned with skills I’m expected to
teach?
• Is it reliable?
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Why use a digital library?
• Provides efficient discovery of quality materials
• Provides safe environment and “boundaries”
on the web
• Acknowledges the current reliance on the
Internet for information
 “About 75 percent of students said they used
the Internet first, then went to a professor or
librarian for assistance, and consulted print
sources last.”
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Digital Library for
Earth System Education
Resources that support Earth System Education:
• Emphasizes interdisciplinary approach to science
• Includes processes, states, cycles, and interactions
among the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere,
hydrosphere and space from a global to local perspective,
across time scales
• Highlights materials that bring the Earth system into the
classroom or learning situation, and that demonstrate the
application of science to solving real world problems
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What does DLESE offer?
• Learning resources about the Earth System
 Lesson plans, computer
and lab activities, data,
instructor guides,
visualizations, virtual
field trips…
 Themed collections
about a specific topic
 Reviewed collections
• Resources contributed and described by
educators and scientists
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DLESE also offers
• Services to help users effectively create and
use materials
 Search by educational standards
 Read and contribute teaching tips and reviews
• Community connections
 Attend workshops, summer institutes, and events
 Learn about funding sources
 Participate in discussion groups on a wide range of
topics
 Receive DLESE monthly electronic newsletter
• Interfaces and tools to allow exploration of
Earth data sets (coming soon!)
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Making use of resource types
Level of learning or
understanding*
You want
students to be
able to:
Relevant resource types (there may
be others)
Sample problems and resources
Analysis
(distinguish,
classify, or
relate
assumptions,
hypotheses,
evidence)
Analyze a
problem
•Case study
•Activities (classroom,
Problem: How is water quality
determined?
Resource type: Case study
Resource: Exploring the
Environment: Water Quality
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/module
s/waterq/waterq.html
Synthesis
(originate,
integrate, and
combine ideas)
Prepare for
a
discussion,
role play, or
debate on
an issue,
etc.
•Activities (classroom,
Problem: Develop and defend a
possible solution to global
warming.
Resource type: Classroom
activity, computer activity
Resource: Global Warming
Project,
http://www.letus.nwu.edu/projec
ts/gw/index.html
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computer, lab, field)
•Datasets
•Lesson plan
•Project
•Tools (calculators)
computer, lab, field)
•Dataset
•Presentation/demo
•Services
•Tutorial
•Text
•Visual (illustrations, etc.)
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Discussion questions
• What are some concepts that have
been difficult to teach?
• Are there areas that the FOSS kits don’t
cover? Concepts that could use
enhancement?
• How might technology assist with these
situations?
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Explore DLESE
• Pick a topic/concept:
 To enhance a module or to help build a
field investigation
 Begin searching for resources
 Write down URLs of interesting resources
• Goals:
 Find resources that will be useful to you
 Report back to group on what you find or
don’t find!
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Tools on your desktop
• Worksheet
 Topic
 Grade level
 URLs, etc.
 Notes
• Web browser opened to www.dlese.org
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Post-exploration discussion
• What topics did you explore? For what
grade level?
• What kinds of searches did you do?
• Did you find what you were looking for?
• Why or why not; suggestions for
broadening a search
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