Integrated Design for Geoscience Education: Upward Bound

为期两年的地球科学教育综合设计（IDGE）项目将为西弗吉尼亚州立大学（WVSU）的学生实施基于探究的地球科学课程，这是一所历史悠久的黑人大学。IDGE以UB的使命为基础，鼓励贫困学生探索科学和科学事业。该项目将为有学术天赋但缺乏社会经济机会的高中生提供为期六周的严格暑期课程，旨在为他们接受高等科学教育做好准备。该项目将采用由美国国家航空航天局、美国国家科学基金会和美国国务院资助的全球环境学习和观测项目（GLOBE）开发的科学协议和教育资源，并创建新的在线学习模块，让UB学生积极收集和分析环境数据。将为布法罗大学西弗吉尼亚分校的学生开设一门综合地球科学课程——环境探究；此外，还将为希望通过与哥斯达黎加GLOBE学生的国际生态比较来扩展地球科学知识的二年级学生开设高级国际环境探究课程。GLOBE教师认证培训将为布法罗大学项目协调员提供，被选中的布法罗大学学生和教育工作者将有机会被选中与其他GLOBE学生一起参加哥斯达黎加的EcoTeach学习考察。通过推广多学科、综合、探究式的地球科学教学方法，IDGE将鼓励UB学生在高等教育实验室科学方面取得成功，提高参与学生的批判性思维技能，并促进对科学事业的积极态度。

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.