AMIDST: Attracting Minorities to Geosciences through Involved Digital Story Telling

通过复杂的数字故事讲述吸引少数群体到地球科学(AMID)帮助阿拉斯加原住民三年级到五年级的学生通过将对自然的观察与解释自然事件的当地或传统故事联系起来，发展对科学、文化、社会和个人视角之间动态关系的理解。该项目将以地点为基础的地球科学教育与具有文化敏感性的数字故事讲述相结合，旨在促进阿拉斯加土著和农村社区对地球科学的兴趣。该项目为来自阿拉斯加州彼得斯堡的一名教师、两名土著长老/社区成员、20名阿拉斯加土著和少数民族学生以及来自阿拉斯加州诺姆的一个类似组成的小组提供了与科学家和教育技术专家密切互动的机会，以了解当地的地球科学现象。参与者学习创建一个引人入胜的故事背后的概念和所需的步骤。学生将他们对景观特征的观察与他们自己的经历联系起来。总体目标是使学生能够通过体验了解地球科学，并成为地球科学内容材料的主动创造者，而不是内容知识的被动接受者。儿童的叙述以及他们的实地照片和/或插图以及研究数据将以数字格式捕捉并张贴在一个专门的网站上，这将成为阿拉斯加儿童对国际极地年作出贡献的遗产。

The Attracting Minorities to Geosciences through Involved Digital Story Telling (AMIDST) is helping Native Alaskan students in Grades 3 through 5 develop an understanding of the dynamic relationships among scientific, cultural, social and personal perspectives by connecting observations of nature to a local or traditional story that explains a natural event. This project is integrating place-based geoscience education with culturally sensitive digital story-telling and aims to promote interest in the geosciences among Alaska's native and rural communities. The project provides an opportunity for a teacher, two Native elders/community members, and 20 Native Alaskan and minority students from Petersburg, Alaska and a similarly constituted group from Nome, Alaska to closely interact with scientists and education technology experts, to learn about local geoscience phenomena. Participants learn the concepts behind, and steps required to create, an engaging story. Students connect their observations of the landscape feature to their own experiences. The overarching goal is to enable students to learn about geosciences through experience and be active creators of geoscience content material rather than passive recipients of content knowledge. The children's narratives, along with their field photos and/or illustrations and research data, are being captured in digital format and posted on a dedicated website, which will form a legacy of contributions by Alaska's children to the International Polar Year (IPY).