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  title info:
    title: Teaching Science and Investigating Environmental Issues with Geospatial Technology
    sub title: Designing Effective Professional Development for Teachers
  name:
    name part: MaKinster, James.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Trautmann, Nancy.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Barnett, Michael.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 353 p. 46 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides research-grounded and practically-minded insights into teacher professional development in support of integrating GIS and other geospatial technologies into K-12 science teaching. In this volume 50 designers, educators and researchers share their experiences, knowledge, and lessons learned from a wide variety of projects. Readers will find a myriad of ideas and perspectives that they can apply to their own teacher professional development projects, as they work to provide students with engaging opportunities for learning science. Geospatial technologies enable teachers to teach in fundamentally new ways, building student interest and skill through active engagement in critical thinking and project or inquiry-based learning. Students are naturally drawn to looking at landscapes and interpreting features through analysis of both shape and form. Given the chance to manipulate spatial data, students revel in deciphering mysteries, exploring scientific explanations, and linking causes with consequences. The passion and interest demonstrated by students using geospatial tools has motivated an increasing number of K-12 teachers to embrace the use of these technologies for teaching and learning science. Given the nature and complexity of these tools, high quality professional development is essential for providing teachers with the support and guidance they need to use geospatial technologies effectively. This book will be of special interest to scientists, geographers, and science educators who are designing or delivering teacher professional development in support of teaching with technology. The case studies make it possible for readers to identify specific paths forward regarding both research and practice. GIS and other geospatial technologies offer teachers an effective way to engage students in the analysis of authentic data in ways called for by the Next Generation Science Standards and the National Geography Standards. With the improvements in th…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Participatory Professional Development: Geospatially Enhanced Urban Ecological Field Studies -- Field-based Research Partnerships: Teachers, Students, and Scientists Investigate the Geologic History of Eastern Montana Using Geospatial Technologies -- The GIT Ahead Project: Meeting Teachers Where They Are and Helping Them Achieve Their Geospatial Goals -- Spatial Sci: Forwarding Geospatial Technology Innovations In the Classroom -- Eyes in the Sky: Facilitating Classroom Research Using Geospatial Technology -- Coastlines: Commitment, Comfort, Competence, Empowerment, and Relevance in Professional Development -- The Inquiring with GIS (iGIS) Project: Helping Teachers Create and Lead Local GIS-Based Investigations -- Communities for Rural Education, Stewardship and Technology Program (CREST): A Rural Model of Teacher Professional Development -- Curriculum Aligned Professional Development for Geospatial Education -- Impact of Science Teacher Professional Development through Geospatial Technologies: A 5-Step Program of Support -- The Data Sets and Inquiry in Geoscience Education Project: A Model Curricula for Teacher Capacity Building in Scientific Inquiry Tasks With Geospatial Data -- Designing Google Earth Activities for Learning Earth and Environmental Science -- Designing Geospatial Exploration Activities to Build Environmental Awareness in Middle School Students -- The Lonely Trailblazers: Examining the Early Implementation of Geospatial Technologies in Science Classrooms -- Understanding the Use of Geospatial Technologies to Teach Science: TPACK as a Lens for Effective Teaching -- Moving Out of Flatland: Toward Effective Practice in Geospatial Inquiry -- What Happens After Professional Development: Case Studies on Implementing GIS in the Classroom -- The Nature and Design of Professional Development for Using Geospatial Technologies to Teach Science -- The Nature of Teacher Knowledge Necessary for the Effective Use of Geospatial Technologies to Teac…
  note: edited by James MaKinster, Nancy Trautmann, Michael Barnett.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Geographical information systems
  subject:
    topic: Educational technology
  subject:
    topic: Science education
  subject:
    topic: Teaching
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Science Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Technology
  subject:
    topic: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
  subject:
    topic: Teaching and Teacher Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 507.1
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