Urban Ecology, Information Technology, and Inquiry Science for Students and Teachers

面向学生和教师的城市生态学、信息技术和探究科学

• 批准号: 0525040
• 负责人: George Barnett
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Boston College
• 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: 2005-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0525040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Urban; Ecology; Information; Technology; Inquiry

Boston College will partner with scientists, science educators, guidance counselors and public school teachers and students to develop, evaluate and disseminate IT materials for integration into existing field-based urban ecology modules (such as the Ecoscenario module in FOSS and the bioacoustics module in Active Physics) for grades 7-12 in six schools within the Boston Public School district. The goal is to use information technology to engage 100-400 students and approximately 100 teachers in real-life, field-based, local investigations in urban ecology. Because the majority of students in the district are minority or economically disadvantaged and low performing, the project could eventually impact thousands of students who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM careers and have reduced access to emerging information technologies. The project's design is research-based and meets documented IT and STEM needs of underserved populations.

波士顿学院将与科学家、科学教育工作者、指导顾问以及公立学校教师和学生合作，开发、评估和传播信息技术材料，以便将其纳入波士顿公立学校区内六所学校7-12年级现有的基于实地的城市生态学模块（如自由和开放源码软件中的生态情景模块和活动物理学中的生物声学模块）。 目标是利用信息技术，使100-400名学生和大约100名教师参与城市生态学的实地实地调查。 由于该地区的大多数学生都是少数民族或经济上处于不利地位和表现不佳，该项目最终可能会影响数千名学生，这些学生传统上在STEM职业中代表性不足，并且接触新兴信息技术的机会减少。该项目的设计以研究为基础，并满足服务不足人群的有记录的IT和STEM需求。