Global Change Education Using Western Science and Native Observations

9912019 SPARROW该项目将为阿拉斯加的教师和学生提供机会，从事原创的全球变化研究，并促进阿拉斯加的全球变化教育。 5-12年级的教师和学生将进行大规模，长期的数据收集和分析。来自阿拉斯加五个不同土著文化（尤皮克、伊努皮亚克、阿留申、阿萨巴斯卡和特林吉特/海达）的农村学区的教师和学生将参加。 每年将有18名教师接受地球仪程序的培训。 然后将指导教师扩大这些研究，以包括当地重要的观察和当地专家（包括科学家和部落长老）的知识。 学生将收集和分析数据的新研究项目包括树木生长/树木年轮研究，湖泊和海冰研究以及生长季节研究的全球变化。 教师将在夏季开始研究，并在学年期间继续研究，通过互联网与科学家导师保持联系。 拟议的项目将为教师和学生提供在当地进行研究的机会，并将科学研究转化为有意义的课堂活动。 与当地环境相关的本地观测将用于激发学生对科学的兴趣，并支持和扩大他们对全球气候变化的认识。

9912019SPARROWThis project will provide Alaska teachers and students opportunities to engage in original global change research and to promote global change education in Alaska. Teachers and students in grades 5-12 will conduct large scale, long-term data collection and analysis. Teachers and students from rural school districts serving Alaska's five distinct native cultures (Yupik, Inupiaq, Aleut, Athabascan, and Tlingit/Haida) will participate. Eighteen teachers per year will be trained in the GLOBE program's procedures. The teachers will then be guided in expanding these studies to include locally significant observations and knowledge from local experts (which will include scientists and tribal elders). The new research projects, for which students will collect and analyze data, include a tree growth /tree ring study, a lake and sea ice study, and a global change in growing seasons study. Teachers will initiate research in the summer and continue the research during the academic year, staying in contact with scientist mentors via the Internet. The proposed project will provide teachers and students the opportunity to conduct research locally and to translate scientific research into meaningful classroom activities. Native observations relevant to the local environment will be used to motivate student interest in science, and to support and extend their awareness of global climate change.