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

K-12教育中的研究生助教项目问题#：0638669 PRINCIPAL调查员：Richard Moore研究：俄亥俄州立大学TITLE：将流域研究和GK-12教育与生态系统环境联系起来俄亥俄州立大学的GK-12项目将邀请STEM研究生研究员、合作教员和资源专业人员以及学生和教师(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，参与流域科学的研究。该项目将建立在俄亥俄州东北部糖溪流域现有跨学科研究的基础上。该项目每年将招聘8名STEM研究员。这些研究员每年将与8名教师一起工作。学术价值包括探索分水岭科学作为将环境科学和农村社会学等多学科纳入整体、建构主义和系统的教育方法的模式系统，以创造大学研究人员和K-12教师和学生参与的合作学习机会。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到日本进行研究访问，分析与溪流生态有关的萤火虫栖息地补救措施。

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.