NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows Program of the Duke University Marine Laboratory

B.机构：杜克大学海洋实验室c.主要研究员：西莉亚·博纳文图拉博士，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共同首席研究员：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.研究员数量：9名NSF教学研究员，包括3名本科生，3名硕士和3名博士后e.目标对象：该计划将侧重于高中和初中水平，年级有一些活动吸引了所有年龄段的学生。F.国家科学基金会支持的学科：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。在该计划的所有方面，涵盖许多科学学科，我们将鼓励发展沟通技能，包括书面、口头和图形沟通。项目简介及效益：本建议书是为响应美国国家科学基金会征集K-12教育专业研究生教学研究员而提出的。拟议项目的总体目标是将杜克大学海洋实验室的一些最好的学生(作为本科生和研究生讲师)与邻近农村公立学校的高中生进行合作。这一努力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热情支持。杜克大学海洋实验室由环境与地球科学学院的教职员工组成，为教师和学生提供了一个出色的培训环境。我们的计划重点是海岸和海洋环境，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NSF支持的学科提供了广泛的教师和学生支持基础。杜克大学的高素质学生将担任助教，这无疑是我们在这个项目中最好的资产。杜克大学教职员工的参与者将增强他们的才华和热情，他们一直对与公立学校合作表现出特别的兴趣，并将促进公立学校为海洋实验室本科生和研究生提供服务作为他们杜克大学经历的一个关键组成部分。所有这些参与者都将与教学研究员和K-12学生合作，专注于上面列出的教育学科。我们认为，拟议项目最重要的方面之一是，学生有机会对海洋实验室可直接接触到的海洋/沿海环境进行现场探索。对于生活在这些环境中和附近的学生来说，这个独特的机会将被证明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的后院的知识整合到更完整的沿海和海洋生态系统复杂功能的图景中。我们之前与北卡罗来纳州卡特里特县公立学校学生合作的经验证实，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