Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmed22a..05s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #ED22A-05
Mathematics
Logic
6605 Education
Scientific paper
The American Geological Institute (AGI) has been actively involved in K-12 Earth science education for more than 40 years. Recent efforts at AGI have focused upon producing secondary science curriculum programs that target the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and working with Member Societies to create documents that enhance the public's understanding of evolution. National standards, which have driven reform of science education in many states, call for including evolution within the secondary curriculum. AGI's recently published curriculum programs, Investigating Earth Systems (IES) for middle schools and Earth System Science in the Community (EarthComm) for high schools, provide much-needed tools that help teachers address learning goals related to evolution. IES is a modular program that emphasizes inquiry, the nature of science, and five big ideas of Earth science, including understanding that the geology of Earth is dynamic and has evolved over billions of years, and that the geological evolution of Earth has left a record of its history that geoscientists interpret. EarthComm builds upon these ideas to emphasize the study of the evolution of life and the planet using a community-based approach. Project CUES (Constructing Understandings of Earth Systems), a comprehensive middle school Earth science program to be tested in classrooms in the 2002-2003 school year, will focus student inquiry upon four key themes, including evolution and Earth history. In cooperation with the Paleontological Society, AGI recently released Evolution and the Fossil Record. The work discusses geologic time; change through time; Darwin's theory of evolution; evolution as a mechanism for change; the nature of species; the nature of theory; paleontology, geology, and evolution; and determining the age of fossils and rocks.
Smith Christopher M.
Smith Malcolm J.
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