Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans in the Earth-Sun System

OCE -0528706该奖项通过授予毕格罗海洋科学实验室（0528706），缅因州大学（0528702）和新罕布什尔州大学（0528686）建立了一个新的海洋科学教育卓越中心（COSEE）。 该专题中心的主要目标是扩大对地球和太阳系背景下的海洋的了解，并帮助COSEE网络覆盖农村和内陆受众。 PI将开创一个界面，工具和资源系统，以覆盖服务不足和代表性不足的群体，并通过在地球系统更熟悉的组成部分，包括环境和空间科学的背景下将海洋科学介绍给内陆观众。 其中一个目标是探索扩大海洋作用的知识的有效性，超越地球气候的驱动力，将地球置于太阳系中独特的位置。 活动包括建立和培训教育科学家团队，以实现具体目标，例如，测试有效利用海洋数据的策略、概念图使用培训以及优质资源的识别和评估。 对产品、模型和信息的评估贯穿始终，并进行持续的自我评估。 缅因州大学和新罕布什尔州大学的正式教育合作伙伴将与教育工作者一起测试材料的有效性，这些教育工作者对海洋相关内容的知识从新手到专家不等。 缅因州将成为COSEE网络开始覆盖内陆农村人口的试验田。 该小组包括在水圈、生物圈、冰冻圈、地圈和大气层方面具有专门知识的科学家和教育工作者。 该团队将开发概念图和案例研究，展示海洋主题在国家科学教育标准中的应用。 该中心将建立一个正式的机制，对材料进行科学审查，以确保他们推荐的产品具有最高质量并符合严格的标准，并向产品开发人员提供教育工作者和科学家的反馈。 他们将从DLESE，BRIDGE，NOAA和其他人中选择资源，并使用他们训练有素的资源评估员团队对这些资源进行课堂准备和科学准确性评估，这些资源具有地球系统科学的第一手知识。 他们还将对缺失的资源进行“差距分析”。 “差距分析”还将告知科学界如何避免为涵盖广泛的专题编写材料。 COSEE-OESS从最初使用美国航天局的教育产品审查开始制定的审查程序将作为评价最佳做法和评估的模式在全国传播，并评价教材的准则。 在职教师方案将侧重于扩大新罕布什尔州大学海岸观测中心夏季在职教师讲习班，以纳入OESS内容和活动评估（新材料和活动的“试验台”）。 这些讲习班的年度主题侧重于海洋观测系统以及浮标、船上和卫星数据的整合。 缅因州大学的职前教师和普通科学学生将参加由OESS创建的新课程，通过专注于使用物理原理，概念和方法来解释与NSES一致的水生科学现象，学习海洋研究方法。 该课程将在经过严格评估后编写并分发给教师。 该中心的智力优势：该主题中心专注于创建和评估一系列相互关联的工具和技术，旨在扩大对地球和太阳系背景下海洋的理解。 研究结果将转化为创新的多媒体产品，展示地球太阳系中的海洋。 将对教育资源的科学和教育影响进行评估，并查明和填补这些资源中的差距。 一门教授海洋现象的新的本科课程将在全国范围内开发、测试和传播。 拟议的中心将帮助COSEE接触内陆和农村观众。 更广泛的影响：该中心将作为一个“学习型组织”，提供几乎可以在任何地方应用的优秀产品、模型和信息。 最后的产品，即“最佳做法”（一份说明系统背景在学习方面的价值的文件）和“深入内陆受众的战略”的出版物，将在整个东南欧经委会网络内外传播。

OCE - 0528706This award establishes a new Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) via awards to the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (0528706), the University of Maine (0528702), and the University of New Hampshire (0528686). The main goals of this thematic Center are to broaden understanding of the oceans in the context of the earth and solar systems and to help the COSEE network reach rural and inland audiences. The PIs will pioneer a system of interfaces, tools, and resources to reach underserved and underrepresented groups, and to bring ocean sciences to inland audiences by presenting it in the context of more familiar components of the earth system, including environmental and space sciences. One goal is to explore the effectiveness of expanding knowledge of the ocean's role beyond being a driver of earth's climate to placing the earth in the context of its unique place in the solar system. Activities include building and training educator-scientist teams to work towards specific goals, e.g., testing strategies for effective use of ocean data, training in the use of concept mapping, and the identification and evaluation of high-quality resources. Evaluation of products, models and information is integrated throughout, with continuous self-assessment. Formal education partners at the University of Maine and University of New Hampshire will test the efficacy of materials with educators whose knowledge of ocean-related content ranges from novice to expert. Maine will be a test bed for the COSEE network to start reaching inland rural populations. The team includes scientists and educators with expertise in the hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere. The team will develop concept maps and case studies that show application of ocean topics to the National Science Education Standards. The Center will develop a formal mechanism for scientific review of materials to ensure the products they recommend are of the highest quality and meet rigorous standards, as well as to provide feedback from educators and scientists to product developers. They will select resources from DLESE, the BRIDGE, NOAA and others and evaluate these for classroom readiness and scientific accuracy using their team of well-trained resource evaluators with first-hand knowledge of earth systems science. They also will do a "gap analysis" of missing resources. The "Gap Analysis" will also inform the science community about avoiding developing materials for well-covered topics. The review process developed by COSEE-OESS, from initial use of NASA's education product review, will be disseminated nationally as a model for evaluating best practices and assessment and evaluation guidelines for education materials. In-service teacher programs will focus on expansion of University of New Hampshire's Coastal Observing Center summer in-service teacher workshops to incorporate OESS content and evaluation of activities ("test bed" for novel materials and activities). These workshops have annual themes focusing on ocean observing systems and the integration of buoy, shipboard, and satellite data (GoMOOS). Pre-service teachers and general science students at the University of Maine will take a new course created by OESS to learn ocean research methods by focusing on using physical principles, concepts and approaches to explain phenomena in aquatic sciences that are aligned to the NSES. The course will be developed for distribution to teachers after rigorous evaluation. Intellectual Merit of the Center: This thematic center focuses on creating and evaluating a series of interconnected tools and techniques designed to broaden understanding of the ocean in the context of the earth and solar systems. Results will be translated into innovative multimedia products that showcase the ocean in the earth-sun system. Educational resources will be evaluated for science and education impact, and gaps in these resources will be identified and filled. A new undergraduate course to teach about ocean phenomena will be developed, tested, and disseminated nationally. The proposed Center will help COSEE reach inland and rural audiences. Broader impact: This Center will serve as a "learning organization" to deliver excellent products, models, and information that can be applied virtually anywhere. The final products, publication of "Best Practices" (a document that describes the value of system context in terms of learning) and "Strategies to reach inland audiences" will be disseminated throughout and beyond the COSEE network.