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.主要研究者：Celia Bonaventura，Ph.D.，杜克大学医学院细胞生物学教授和尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院共同首席研究员：迈克尔·K。奥巴赫，博士，海洋事务和政策的实践，杜克大学尼古拉斯环境与地球科学学院教授d。研究员人数：9名NSF教学研究员，包括3名本科生，3名硕士生和3名博士预科生。目标受众：该计划将侧重于高中和初中年级，其中一些活动吸引了所有年龄段的学生。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，统计和技术的学科和跨学科方面。在整个计划的各个方面，涵盖许多科学学科，我们将鼓励沟通技能的发展，包括书面，口头和图形通信。G.项目和效益的简要描述：本提案是为了响应NSF对K-12教育研究生教学研究员的邀请而提交的。拟议项目的总体目标是将来自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）与来自邻近农村公立学校的高中生和中学生组成一个团队。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、杜克大学教职员工和当地学校管理人员及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师组成，为教师和学生培训提供了出色的环境。我们的计划重点是沿海和海洋环境，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，海洋生态学和动物学，环境社会科学，综合地球/生物/物理科学和科学教育的专业知识。因此，我们提供了科学教育和优秀的教师和学生支持基础广泛覆盖NSF支持的学科的独特环境。高质量的杜克学生谁将担任教学研究员无疑是我们最好的资产，关于这个程序。他们的才能和热情将得到杜克教师参与者的增强，他们一直表现出与公立学校合作的特殊兴趣，并为海洋实验室本科生和研究生提供公立学校的推广服务，作为他们杜克经验的关键组成部分。所有这些参与者将与教学研究员和K-12学生合作，专注于上面列出的教育学科。我们认为，拟议项目的最强方面之一是学生有机会进行海洋实验室直接访问的海洋/沿海环境的现场勘探。这个独特的机会将被证明是令人兴奋和有趣的学生谁住在这些环境和附近。我们的计划将为沿海地区的K-12学生提供基于调查的机会，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的画面中。我们以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