Integrated Design for Geoscience Education: Upward Bound

为期两年的地球科学教育综合设计(IDGE)项目将为历史悠久的黑人大学西弗吉尼亚州立大学(WVSU)的UB学生实施基于探究的地球科学课程。IDGE通过鼓励贫困学生研究科学和科学事业，以UB的使命为基础。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计划，为他们接受大专科学教育做准备。该项目将调整最初为全球学习和观察开发的科学协议和教育资源，以造福于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环境(GLOB)计划，并创建新的在线学习模块，让密歇根大学的学生积极收集和分析环境数据。将为西弗吉尼亚大学的学生开发一门综合地球科学课程--环境探究；还将为希望通过与哥斯达黎加的全球学生进行国际生态比较来扩展其地球科学知识的二年级学生开设一门高级国际环境探究课程。全球教师认证培训将为UB项目的促进者提供，选定的UB学生和教育工作者将有机会被选中，与其他Global学生一起参加哥斯达黎加的EcoTeach学习考察。通过促进多学科、综合、以探究为基础的地球科学教学，IDGE将鼓励密歇根大学的学生在中学后实验室科学领域取得成功，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.