NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth System Science Education
Project (GESSEP) - Maryland School System Grants and Regional Earth
Science Activities
Location:
Maryland
Description:
As an extension to the Maryland Ambassador Program, GESSEP teacher ambassadors are deeply involved in enhancing Earth and Space science instruction in their local systems and throughout Maryland. Professional .development and curriculum planning workshops are supported through grants under this program. Examples of activities supported by this program include:
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A workshop was held at Easton High School, and involved 50 Earth
Science Teachers in the nine Eastern Shore counties of
Maryland. The workshop was related to the identification of
support structures needed by schools and districts to implement the
Core Learning Goals for High School Earth and Space Sciences.
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The Western Maryland counties of Allegany, Garrett, and Washington
provided three days of staff development, planned and presented by
Ambassadors, for all Earth and Space Science Teachers.
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Four teams of teachers from the five Southern Maryland Counties of
Prince George, Calvert, Charles, St. Maryís, and Anne Arundel
completed their work, in early August 1998, to infuse technology into
the Earth Science Curriculum developed by Baltimore
County. The revised curriculum was to be piloted in the
five involved counties during the 1998 - 1999
school year, with the piloted curriculum made available to all
counties in the state.
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A GESSEP Ambassador and the Science Supervisor planned and conducted
a two-day in-service for Earth science teachers in Calvert
County.
Applicants are limited to participants from the Maryland Ambassador
Program and selected on competitive basis.
The Maryland Ambassador Program began in 1994, continuing through
the end of the 1996 school year. Teams of Maryland middle and
high school teachers participated in this four-week summer program,
which was designed to enhance their teaching and help them serve as
ambassadors to other teachers and to their local school
district. Sixty-five teachers completed the Ambassador Program
from across Maryland.
Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Contact:
Stephen Gilligan, Principal Investigator;
Phone: (301) 375-8226; Email: steveg@olg.com; Vern Smith,
Co-Investigator, GSFC, Code 130.9, Greenbelt, MD 20771; Phone: (301)
286-1977; Email:
vern@aesp.nasa.okstate.edu
Education Level:
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
Subject:
Atmosphere
Climate
Earth System Science
Global Environmental Change
Oceanography - Biological
Oceanography - Geological
Oceanography -Physical
Ozone
Planetary Geology
Remote Sensing
Volcanism
Water Cycle
Program type:
Curriculum Development/Support
Teacher Training (In-service)
Date Added to teachearth.com:
5/1/00