Track 1, GK-12: Engineering Fellows in G6-9 Science Education

在这个为期3年的项目中，密苏里-哥伦比亚大学的工程和教育学院将与三个密苏里州中心学区合作（一个小城市和两个农村），工程企业，和密苏里州中小学教育部，以提高工程研究生的教学法和团队建设技能，增加G6-9科学和数学教师的工程内容，并提供机会，以增加G6-9学生使用动手工程设计项目的科学和数学的兴趣。 智力优势。工程和教育教师与研究员和G6-9科学教师一起工作，融合了内容和教学技能，对研究员的发展产生了更好的整体影响。要求研究员在其论文中列入一个关于这一外联活动的章节，进一步强调了这一点。通过明确让研究员参与决策，增强他们的能力和发展领导技能;该项目利用独特的团队方法，进一步推动了将工程设计纳入K-12教育这一全国公认的需要;在学校发展未来科学家和工程师俱乐部，将拟议的活动与课程联系起来，提高效力和改善可持续性，以及;拟议的通过远距离联系的全球联系为所有活动增加了一个重要的教育层面，对所有参与者都是如此。更广泛的影响。 拟议的项目将有助于为G6-9科学和数学教育工作者、高等教育、工业以及该州中小学教育部门之间以工程设计为中心的更深入和持续的伙伴关系发展基础设施。开发的原型资源（研究生，教师和G6-9学生）将提供给研究生，初中和中学科学和数学教师，以及整个地区，州和国家的高等教育，期望他们在适当的时候使用它们。工程设计项目的注入还应促进内容丰富和以调查为基础的方法的发展。研究生也将受益于增强的技能转移到各种职业。积极让学生参与设计的重要性不仅有可能丰富科学和数学的教学，而且还可以通过提供方法来应对从生态问题到个人生活等不同领域的其他挑战，从而与日常生活建立联系。 将强调将妇女和少数民族纳入该方案的各个方面，工程局为该项目提供部分资金。

In this 3-year project, the Colleges of Engineering and Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia will collaborate with three central Missouri school districts (one small city and two rural), engineering businesses, and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to improve the pedagogy and team-building skills of engineering graduate students, increase the engineering content for G6-9 science and mathematics teachers, and provide opportunities to increase interest in science and mathematics among G6-9 students using hands-on engineering design projects. Intellectual Merit. Engineering and education faculty working together with Fellows and G6-9 science teachers blends content and pedagogy skills for better overall impact on the Fellows' development. This is further emphasized by requiring the Fellows to include a chapter about this outreach activity in their dissertation. Empowerment of the Fellows and development of leadership skills is included by explicitly involving them in decision making; infusion of engineering design into K-12 education, a nationally recognized need, is furthered by the project, using a unique team approach; development of Future Scientists and Engineers Clubs in schools links the proposed activities with curricular ones, enhancing effectiveness and improving sustainability, and; the proposed global connections via distance links adds an important educational dimension to all the activities, for all the participants. Broader Impact. The proposed project will help develop infrastructure for deeper and sustained partnerships, centered on engineering design, among G6-9 science and mathematics educators, higher education, industry, and the department of elementary and secondary education of the state. The prototype resources (for graduate students, teachers, and G6-9 students) developed will be made available to graduate students, middle and secondary science and mathematics teachers, and higher education throughout the region, the state, and the nation, with the expectation that they will utilize them whenever appropriate. Infusion of engineering design projects should also facilitate the development of content-rich and inquiry-based approaches. The graduate students will also benefit from enhanced skills transferable to a variety of occupations. The importance of actively engaging students in design has the potential not only to enrich teaching of science and mathematics, but also to forge connections to daily life by providing approaches to meet other challenges in diverse areas ranging from ecological issues to personal life. The inclusion of women and minorities in all aspects of this program will be stressed.Partial funding for this project is provided by the Directorate for Engineering.