Linking Watershed Research and GK-12 Education within an Ecosystem Context

摘要提案编号：0638669主要研究者：Richard moore机构：俄亥俄州立大学标题：将流域研究和GK-12教育与生态系统背景联系起来俄亥俄州立大学的GK-12项目将吸引STEM研究生，以及合作的教师和资源专业人员，学生和教师（从3-5年级，6-8年级，10-12年级），包括来自阿米什学校的学生和教师，参与流域科学研究。该项目将建立在俄亥俄州东北部糖溪流域现有的跨学科研究的基础上。该项目每年将招募8名STEM研究员。这些研究员每年将与8名教师一起工作。智力上的优点包括探索流域科学作为一个模型系统，将多学科，如环境科学和农村社会学，纳入一个整体的，建构主义的，系统的教育方法，创造一个涉及大学研究人员和K-12教师和学生的合作学习机会。更广泛的影响包括为研究员和教师提供机会，与其他项目成员一起前往日本进行研究访问，分析萤火虫栖息地修复与溪流生态的关系。

GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOWS IN K-12 EDUCATION ABSTRACTPROPOSAL #: 0638669PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Richard MooreINSTITUTION: Ohio State UniversityTITLE: Linking Watershed Research and GK-12 Education with an Ecosystem ContextThe GK-12 project from the Ohio State University will engage STEM graduate fellows, along with collaborating faculty and resource professionals, and students and teachers (from grades 3-5, 6-8, 10-12) including those from Amish schools, in the research on watershed science. The project will build on existing interdisciplinary research on the Sugar Creek Watershed in North East Ohio. The project will recruit 8 STEM fellows each year. These fellows will work with 8 teachers each year. The intellectual merit includes the exploration of watershed science as a model system for incorporating multiple disciplines, such as environmental science and rural sociology, into a holistic, constructivist, systemic educational approach to create a cooperative learning opportunity involving university researchers and K-12 teachers and students. The broader impacts include providing the opportunity to fellows and teachers to join other project members for a research visit to Japan to analyze firefly habitat remediation as related to stream ecology.