Program for Gender Equity in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (PGE): DEM-Girls Exploring Mathematics through Social Sciences (GEMS)

这个示范项目源于计划资助活动，该活动设计了一个多层次的方法，以适应一个成功的、密集的两周暑期计划，以接触到更广泛的城市女孩受众。目前的项目(GEM，或女孩通过社会科学探索数学)包括一套由三个方案组成的综合方案，旨在通过让中学生参与有关青少年的社会科学研究，提高她们对数学和与数学有关的活动的兴趣、能力和信心。这三个项目都提供了对中学女生有吸引力的课程，并通过她们对社会问题的预先存在的兴趣来鼓励她们对数学、科学和技术的兴趣。这三个项目都通过建立女孩对合作和联系的偏好来提高她们的技术技能和旅行技能；三个项目都鼓励与年长的、相关的模特导师联系。该项目包括一个为期10周、周六上午的项目版本(Go-Girl或Gain Options：Girls Investigate Real Life)，该项目可以提供给城市女孩，但保留了高兴趣、实践经验、协作和代际指导等关键特征；以及基于网络的版本(Smart-Girl或调查数学与研究技术：Girls Investigate Real Life)，它扩展了现有热门网站的容量，教女孩如何在线收集和分析调查数据。在密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学，这个项目将为数学和社会研究的职前教师提供机会，他们也是学生，以小规模观察、培训和教授女孩。该项目将产生可在城市环境中使用的GEMS课程的经济版本，可输出到其他机构的教师专业发展计划，以及使其他机构能够在其他城市实施这一课程的适当支持材料。

This demonstration project grows out of planning grant activity, which designed a multi-level approach to adapting a successful, intensice two-week summer program to reach a broader audience of urban girls. The present project (GEMS, or Girls Explore Mathematics through Social Science) encompasses an integrated set of three programs designed to strengthen middle-school girls' interest, competence and confidence in mathematics and mathematics-related activities through engaging them in social science research on adolescents. All three progams offer a curriculum that is attractive to middle-school girls, and that encourages their interest in mathematics, science and technology through their pre-existing interest in social issues. All three programs enhance girls' technical skills and itnerests by building on their preference for collaboration and connection; and all three encourage contact with older, relevant model-mentors. The project includes a 10 week, Saturday morning version of the program (GO-GIRL or Gaining Options: Girls Investigate Real Life) that can be offered to urban girls, but retains the key features of high interest, hands-on experience, collaboration, and intergenerational mentoring; and a web based version of the program (SMART-GIRL or Surveys Mathematics and Research Technology: Girls Investigate Real Life) that expands the capacity of a popular existing website to teah girls how to gather and analyze survey data online. At both the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, this project will provide opportunities for the pre-service teachers of mathematics and social studies who are also students, to observe, train, and teach girls on a small scale. The project will yield an economical version of the GEMS curriculum that is usable in urban settings, a teacher professional development program that is exportable to other institutions, as well as appropriate support materials to enable others to implement this curriculum in other cities.