Integrated Design for Geoscience Education: Upward Bound

地球科学教育的综合设计：向上的界限为期两年的地球科学教育的综合设计（IDGE）项目将实施一个基于调查的地球科学课程向上的界限（UB）的学生在西弗吉尼亚州州立大学（WVSU），一个历史上的黑人大学。IDGE以UB的使命为基础，鼓励贫困学生研究科学和科学事业。该项目将为具有学术能力但缺乏社会经济机会的高中生提供一个为期六周的严格暑期课程，旨在为他们接受中学后科学教育做好准备。该项目将适应科学协议和教育资源最初开发的全球学习和观测，以造福环境（地球仪）计划与美国宇航局，国家科学基金会和美国国务院的资金，并创建新的在线学习模块，将涉及UB学生在积极收集和分析环境数据。 将为西弗吉尼亚大学的学生开设一门综合地球科学课程-环境调查;还将为希望通过与哥斯达黎加地球仪学生进行国际生态比较来扩大地球科学知识的二年级学生开设一门高级国际环境调查课程。地球仪教师认证培训将提供UB程序的主持人和选定的UB学生和教育工作者将有机会被选中参加EcoTeach学习考察在哥斯达黎加与其他地球仪学生。 通过促进多学科，综合，以探究为基础的方法来进行地球科学教学，IDGE将鼓励UB学生在中学后实验室科学方面取得成功，提高参与学生的批判性思维能力，并促进对科学职业的积极态度。

Integrated Design for Geoscience Education: Upward BoundThe two-year Integrated Design for Geoscience Education (IDGE) project will implement an inquiry-based geoscience curriculum for Upward Bound (UB) students at West Virginia State University (WVSU), a historically black university. IDGE builds on the mission of UB by encouraging underprivileged students to investigate science and scientific careers. This project will provide high school students, who have academic aptitude but lack socio-economic opportunities, with a rigorous, six-week summer program designed to prepare them for postsecondary science education. The project will adapt scientific protocols and educational resources originally developed for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program with NASA, NSF, and U.S. State Department funding and create new on-line learning modules that will involve UB students in the active collection and analysis of environmental data. An integrated geoscience course, Environmental Inquiry, will be developed for the UB students in West Virginia; an advanced International Environmental Inquiry course for second year students wishing to expand their geoscience knowledge through an international ecological comparison with GLOBE students in Costa Rica will also be developed. GLOBE teacher certification training will be provided for UB program facilitators and selected UB students and educators will have the opportunity to be selected to participate in an EcoTeach learning expedition in Costa Rica with other GLOBE students. By promoting a multi-disciplinary, integrated, inquiry-based approach to geoscience instruction, IDGE will encourage UB students to succeed in post-secondary laboratory sciences, increase the critical thinking skills of participating students, and promote positive attitudes towards careers in science.