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ESSEA will support universities, colleges, and science education organizations in offering K-12 Earth system science (ESS) online graduate courses that have been developed within the CET at Wheeling Jesuit University for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. The Earth
system science courses use an innovative instructional design model,
are delivered over the Internet, and feature student-centered,
knowledge-building virtual communities. Successful proposers will
participate in an intensive four-day training workshop to learn how
to deliver the courses.
The ESS courses feature student-centered, knowledge-building
communities in which groups of teacher/participants engage in problem
solving, model building, and classroom activity design. A master
teacher and/or an Earth system scientist , who act as guides and
mentors throughout the 16-week courses, moderate participants.
Participants' expectations are set through the use of rubrics for individual and group work as they learn new ESS content, become knowledgeable about new resources, develop
confidence in the use of technology, and design new classroom
activities.
IGES will award three-year grants to entities with unique and innovative proposals to facilitate and offer the Earth system science online courses developed and tested by CET. Each grant will be in the range of a total of $45,000 over a three-year period. Plans are to
issue new grants in early 2000, late 2000, and in 2001. A copy of the
full proposal and guidelines is available at the ESSEA Web site or by
mail at the address below.
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