Report: Revolutionizing Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century: Report and Recommendations from a 50-State Analysis of Earth Science Education
Report: Revolutionizing Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century: Report and Recommendations from a 50-State Analysis of Earth Science Education
Authors: Martos Hoffman;
Daniel Barstow
Date: June 11, 2007
TERC and NOAA
This study analyzed K-12 Earth science standards and frameworks of all fifty states, plus the District of Columbia, to determine how well each state's standards address the following six Earth science content and pedagogical criteria:
- Content related to atmosphere, weather, climate and the ocean;
- Environmental literacy principles and applications;
- Earth considered as a dynamic interactive system;
- Earth examined through the perspective of space-age tools;
- Use of 21st century technologies in Earth science research; and
- Application of inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning
about Earth science
The study was conducted by TERC on behalf of NOAA's Office of Education and is available in both a high resolution and a lower resolution version.
High resolution copy of report (6 MB pdf)
Low resolution copy of report (1.2 MB pdf)
