GK-12 Formal Proposal: Down to Earth Science - Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

实验和探索--科学家创造新知识的方式--将被亚利桑那州立大学的“脚踏实地”科学研究员/教师/学生伙伴关系计划作为学习和教学科学的基石。这些活动是基于一个强大的跨学科，多标量方法，地球系统科学在三个重要的研究领域，有力地传达科学内容-材料科学与工程，生态学，行星研究。亚利桑那州立大学准备推出，并维持，新的方法来提高科学素养。我们将通过大规模的科学和工程研究项目以及与K-12教育的持续和广泛的合作，扩大成功的K-12教育推广计划的强大基础设施。该项目将：1）通过纳入符合国家科学标准的教学策略，以有意义的方式整合研究，教育和推广; 2）增加教师对科学内容和概念的认识，并为他们提供机会让学生参与实际的科学研究; 3）帮助振兴科学教育，从使用抽象和晦涩的例子到使用上下文和相关;以及（4）向研究员灌输向更广泛的受众传达科学概念的技能，并使他们成为学生的导师和榜样。该奖项由数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同支持。

Experimentation and exploration - the way scientists create new knowledge - will be adopted as the cornerstone for learning and teaching science in Arizona State University's Down to Earth Science fellow/teacher/student partnership program. The activities are based on a strongly interdisciplinary, multiscalar approach to earth systems science in three important research domains that powerfully convey science content - Materials Science and Engineering, Ecology, and Planetary Studies.ASU is poised to launch, and sustain, new approaches to increasing scientific literacy. We will expand upon the strong infrastructure of successful K-12 educational outreach programs from large-scale science and engineering research projects as well as ongoing and extensive collaborations with K-12 education.This project will: 1) integrate research, education, and outreach in a meaningful way by incorporating instructional strategies consistent with the national science standards; 2) increase teachers'knowledge of science content and concepts, and provide them opportunities to engage their students in actual scientific research; 3) help revitalize science education from the use of abstract and obscure examples to the contextual and the relevant; and (4) instill fellows with the skills to communicate scientific concepts to a wider audience and prepare them to be mentors and role models for students.This award is co-supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.