NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows Program of the Duke University Marine Laboratory

a.项目名称：杜克大学海洋实验室NSF研究生教学研究员项目b.机构：杜克大学海洋实验室c.首席研究员：Celia Bonaventura博士，杜克大学医学院和尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院细胞生物学教授Michael K. Orbach博士，杜克大学尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院海洋事务与政策实践教授d.研究员人数：9名NSF教学研究员，包括3名本科生，3名硕士研究生和3名博士预科生e.目标受众：该计划将重点关注高中和初中水平，并有一些活动吸引所有年龄段的学生。f. nsf支持的学科：在沿海和海洋环境的广泛背景下，教学主题将包括生物学、化学、物理科学、地球科学、生态学、环境社会科学、数学、统计学和技术的学科和跨学科方面。在该计划的各个方面，包括许多科学学科，我们将鼓励沟通技巧的发展，包括书面，口头和图形沟通。g.项目简介及收益：本提案是应美国国家科学基金会（NSF） K-12教育研究生教学研究员的邀请而提交的。该项目的总体目标是将杜克大学海洋实验室的一些最优秀的学生（作为本科生和研究生教学研究员）与邻近农村公立学校的高中和初中学生组成团队。这项工作将得到杜克大学尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院院长，以及杜克大学教职员工和当地学校管理人员和教育工作者的大力支持。杜克大学海洋实验室由环境与地球科学学院的教职工组成，为教师和学生的培训提供了一个出色的环境。我们的项目重点，沿海和海洋环境，包括一些与nsf支持的科学学科相关的关键领域。我们的项目团队具有广泛的跨学科性质，包括生物化学、海洋生态与动物学、环境社会科学、地球/生物/物理综合科学和科学教育方面的专业知识。因此，我们既为科学教育提供了独特的环境，也为广泛覆盖nsf支持学科的优秀教师和学生提供了支持。杜克大学的高质量学生将担任教学研究员，这无疑是我们在这个项目中最好的资产。他们的才能和热情将被杜克大学的教师参与者所增强，他们一直表现出与公立学校合作的特殊兴趣，并促进公立学校对海洋实验室本科生和研究生的推广，这是他们杜克大学经历的关键组成部分。所有这些参与者将与教学研究员和K-12学生一起工作，专注于上述教育学科。我们认为，该项目最重要的方面之一是让学生有机会对海洋实验室直接接触的海洋/沿海环境进行实地探索。对于生活在这些环境中或附近的学生来说，这个独特的机会将是令人兴奋和有趣的。我们的项目将为沿海地区的K-12学生提供以探究为基础的机会，将他们所获得的关于自己“后院”的知识整合到沿海和海洋生态系统复杂功能的更完整画面中。我们之前在北卡罗来纳州卡特雷特县与公立学校学生合作的经验证实了这是一种方法

a. Project Title: NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows Program of the Duke University Marine Laboratory b. Institution: Duke University Marine Laboratory c. Principal Investigator: Celia Bonaventura, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical School and Nicholas School of The Environment and Earth Sciences Co-Principal Investigator: Michael K. Orbach, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Marine Affairs and Policy, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences d. Number of Fellows: Nine NSF Teaching Fellows, including 3 undergraduate students, 3 masters students, and 3 pre-doctoral students e. Target Audience: The Program will focus on high school and middle school grade levels, with some activities that attract students of all ages. f. NSF-supported disciplines: Within the broad context of Coastal and Marine Environments, topics of instruction will include disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of biology, chemistry, physical science, earth science, ecology, environmental social sciences, mathematics, statistics and technology. Throughout all aspects of the Program, covering many scientific disciplines, we will encourage development of communication skills, including written, spoken, and graphic communications. g. Brief description of project and benefits: This proposal is submitted in response to the NSF's solicitation for Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education. The overall goal of the proposed project is to team some of the best students from Duke University's Marine Laboratory (as undergraduate and graduate Teaching Fellows) with high school and middle school students from neighboring rural public schools. This effort will be strongly supported by the Dean of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, as well as an enthusiastic group of Duke faculty members and local school administrators and educators. The Duke University Marine Laboratory, staffed by Faculty of the School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, provides an outstanding setting for teacher and student training. Our program focus, Coastal and Marine Environments, includes a number of key domains that are relevant to NSF-supported science disciplines. Our project team has a broad, interdisciplinary nature, including expertise in biochemistry, marine ecology and zoology, environmental social science, integrated earth/biological/physical science and science education. We thus offer both a unique setting for science education and an excellent faculty and student support base for broad coverage of NSF-supported disciplines. The high-quality Duke students who will serve as Teaching Fellows are undoubtedly our best assets with regard to this program. Their talents and enthusiasm will be augmented by Duke faculty participants who have consistently demonstrated an exceptional interest in working with the public schools and in facilitating public school outreach for Marine Laboratory undergraduate and graduate students as a key component of their Duke experience. All of these participants will work with the Teaching Fellows and K-12 students to focus on the educational disciplines listed above. We believe one of the strongest aspects of the proposed project is the opportunity for students to pursue the in situ exploration of marine/coastal environments to which the Marine Laboratory has direct access. This unique opportunity will prove to be exciting and fun for the students who live in and near these environments. Our program will provide the inquiry-based opportunity for K-12 students in coastal areas to integrate the knowledge they have acquired about their own "backyard" into a more complete picture of the complex functioning of coastal and marine ecosystems. Our previous experience in working with the public school students in Carteret County, North Carolina, confirms this to be an approach