After-School Adventures in Wildlife Science (ASCEND Project)

野生动物科学课后探险（ASCEND 项目）

• 批准号: 0104543
• 负责人: Annette Berkovits
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Wildlife Conservation Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0104543&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: After; Adventures; Wildlife; Science; ASCEND

The Wildlife Conservation Society seeks funding for a three-year project to develop an after school and Saturday program for 180 high school students from the Bronx in New York City. The families are all low-income and 85% are below the poverty level. Students will attend sessions two times a week after school from 2:30pm-5:00pm for 18 weeks; one-half day on Saturday per session will also be included. Sessions will be held in the spring and fall, and will include a total of 180 students over the three years of the project. The science content will be based on the Wildlife Inquiry through Zoo Education (WIZE) curriculum materials developed by the Bronx Zoo and supplemented with hands-on activities at the Zoo. The program will bring students from Bronx-area high schools to the Bronx Zoo where they will learn to observe, formulate hypotheses, collect data, analyze and present the data. Student will learn aspects of ecology, anatomy, animal behavior, food webs and chains, etc. Participating students will receive high school credit from the city of New York for participating. The Institute for Learning Innovation, an Annapolis, MD-based, non-profit educational research and development organization, will conduct formative/remedial and summative evaluation of the implementation and long-term impact of the program.

野生动物保护协会为一个为期三年的项目寻求资金，该项目旨在为来自纽约市布朗克斯区的180名高中生开展课后和周六项目。这些家庭都是低收入家庭，85%的家庭低于贫困线。学生将在放学后每周参加两次课程，时间为下午2：30-5：00，为期18周；还将包括周六半天的课程。课程将在春季和秋季举行，在项目的三年时间里，总共将有180名学生参加。科学内容将基于布朗克斯动物园开发的野生动物通过动物园教育(WIZE)课程材料，并辅之以动物园的实践活动。该项目将把布朗克斯地区高中的学生带到布朗克斯动物园，在那里他们将学习观察、制定假设、收集数据、分析和展示数据。学生将学习生态学、解剖学、动物行为、食物网和食物链等方面的知识。参与活动的学生将获得纽约市的高中学分。学习创新研究所是一家总部设在马里兰州安纳波利斯的非营利性教育研究和开发组织，将对该计划的实施和长期影响进行形成性/补救性和终结性评估。