Collaborative Research: Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence -- California

该奖项继续为COSEE California(COSEE CA)提供资金，它已经证明了它有能力开展成功的催化活动，激发和促进科学家和教育工作者之间的合作，以提高海洋素养。COSEE CA将原始合作伙伴--加州大学伯克利分校斯克里普斯海洋研究所和劳伦斯·霍尔科学学院--的资源和专业知识与两个新合作伙伴--圣地亚哥联合学区和探索学院--结合在一起。为了提高公众对海洋的认识和了解，海洋科学研究所将着手开展三项主要活动：1)支持海洋扫盲运动(制定和验证海洋科学学习进程，配合海洋扫盲的范围和顺序，并传播海洋扫盲框架)；2)通过简化实施过程，向正式和非正式受众传播海洋科学的战略性国家传播；3)支持教师、促进者和研究人员之间的持续伙伴关系，开发前沿教育工具，利用技术媒介的可视化、模拟和调查促进探究。这三项倡议共同构成了一项协调一致的战略，旨在建设各国在所有各级正规教育中落实海洋扫盲的基本原则的能力。COSEE CA专注于以下目标：1)将海洋科学家的内容知识和技术工具带入K-12和中学后教育世界；2)建立网络合作，使COSEE具有国家地位和集体发言权；3)开发和传播增加公众对海洋的了解的示范计划；以及4)开展教育研究，将海洋科学纳入主流科学教育课程和标准。

This award provides continued funding for COSEE California (COSEE CA) which has demonstrated its ability to develop successful, catalytic activities that spark and nurture collaborations among scientists and educators to advance ocean literacy. COSEE CA combines the resources and expertise of original partners, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley, with two new partners, San Diego Unified School District and The College of Exploration. With the goal of increasing public awareness and understanding of the ocean, COSEE CA will embark on three major initiatives: 1) Supporting the Ocean Literacy campaign (developing and validating an ocean sciences learning progression to accompany the Ocean Literacy scope & sequence, and disseminating the Ocean Literacy framework); 2) Strategic national dissemination of Communicating Ocean Sciences to Formal and Informal Audiences by streamlining the implementation process to reach large numbers of new institutions; and 3) supporting sustained partnerships among teachers, facilitators and researchers to develop cutting-edge educational tools that promote inquiry through the use of technology-mediated visualizations, simulations and investigations. Together, these three initiatives comprise a coherent strategy for building the nations capacity for putting into practice the Essential Principles of Ocean Literacy at all levels of formal education. COSEE CA is focused on the following objectives: 1) bring the content knowledge and technology tools of ocean scientists into the world of K-12 and postsecondary education; 2) build Network-wide collaborations that provide COSEE with national standing and a collective voice; 3) develop and disseminate model programs that increase the publics understanding of the ocean; and 4) conduct educational research to bring ocean sciences into mainstream science education curriculum and standards.