Long-term Enhancement of Geoscience Diversity Through Engagement of Preteens

通过青少年的参与长期增强地球科学的多样性

• 批准号: 0503583
• 负责人: Robert Ross
• 金额: $ 6.69万
• 依托单位: Paleontological Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0503583&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Long; term; Enhancement; Geoscience; Diversity

Track 1: Long-term enhancement of geoscience diversity through engagement of preteens The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) are partnering to reduce the impact of cultural biases that pull young people from ethnically diverse urban communities away from potential geoscience careers. The partnership takes a three-step approach to this problem. (1) In the first step the project engages whole groups of ethnically diverse upper elementary school students in science "research partnerships" offered as afterschool programming; research partnerships help make the scientific process seem accessible and engaging, so that participants consider themselves able to do science. (2) In the second step PRI scientist educators engage a subset of those students who are especially interested in further opportunities for research and associated Museum education, and during the process help students consider if a career in the geosciences might be appropriate for them. (3) In the third step students are involved as mentors in research partnership outreach for the next cohort of students and as interpreters for peers in their school classes and afterschool activities. The project involves ethnically diverse upper elementary school students from a part of Ithaca, NY that has a high proportion of minority students. Students participate at PRI's new education and exhibits facility, the Museum of the Earth. The project uses several of PRI's existing initiatives for involving students in science, including the Devonian Seas Project, the Mastodon Matrix Project, and Collections Connections. K-5 students from GIAC visit the Museum exhibits and participate in research partnership activities according to their age level; twelve 4th and 5th graders become Junior Geoscientists and visit the Museum twice a week for the academic year, participating in geoscience activities, helping to create an exhibit, and learning to be docents. Later the students interact with their peers at school and GIAC, and help train the next cohort of Junior Geoscientists. The project runs for two years, in order to test the effectiveness of having students from the first year teach students from the second. The project is being tested in Ithaca's urban microcosm, after which PRI will implement the project in nearby Syracuse and Utica, looking toward application of the model to enhancing diversity in the geosciences nationally.

轨道1：通过青少年的参与长期增强地球科学多样性古生物研究所（PRI）和大伊萨卡活动中心（GIAC）正在合作，以减少文化偏见的影响，这些偏见使来自种族多元化城市社区的年轻人远离潜在的地球科学职业。该伙伴关系对这一问题采取了三步走的办法。(1)在第一步中，该项目使整个种族多样化的高年级小学生群体参与作为课后计划提供的科学“研究伙伴关系”;研究伙伴关系有助于使科学过程看起来容易接近和吸引人，使参与者认为自己能够从事科学。(2)在第二步中，PRI的科学家教育工作者吸引了一部分对进一步研究和相关博物馆教育机会特别感兴趣的学生，并在此过程中帮助学生考虑地质科学的职业是否适合他们。(3)在第三步中，学生作为导师参与下一批学生的研究伙伴关系外联活动，并在学校课堂和课后活动中为同龄人担任口译员。 该项目涉及来自纽约州伊萨卡地区的种族多样化的小学高年级学生，该地区的少数民族学生比例很高。学生们在PRI的新教育和展览设施，地球博物馆参加。该项目利用PRI现有的几项举措，让学生参与科学，包括泥盆纪海洋项目，乳齿象矩阵项目和收藏连接。GIAC的K-5学生参观博物馆展品，并根据他们的年龄参加研究伙伴关系活动; 12名4年级和5年级的学生成为初级地球科学家，每周两次参观博物馆，参加地球科学活动，帮助创建展览，并学习成为讲解员。后来，学生们与学校和GIAC的同龄人互动，并帮助培训下一批初级地球科学家。该项目为期两年，以测试让第一年的学生教第二年的学生的效果。该项目正在伊萨卡的城市微观世界进行测试，之后PRI将在附近的锡拉丘兹和尤蒂卡实施该项目，并期待应用该模型来提高全国地球科学的多样性。