COMmunities Educating Tomorrow's Scientists (COMETS)

教育未来科学家社区 (COMETS)

• 批准号: 0736067
• 负责人: Tina Cartwright
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Marshall University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-02 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0736067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COMmunities; Educating; Tomorrow; Scientists; COMETS

The three-year "COMmunities Educating Tomorrow's Scientists (COMETS)" project is implementing an earth and space science program with the focus of learning science as inquiry through Marshall University, with partners NASA IV&V Educator Resource Center, Kanawha County Schools, Bayer Crop Science Corporation, and the West Virginia Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences. COMETS targets 200 low-income, underrepresented and minority students at five community centers in Charleston, WV, for inclusion in a NASA-centered informal science education program. Through innovative hands-on investigations coordinated with students' formal curricula this program seeks to excite, inspire, promote academic achievement, and expand regular school time learning experiences for students in grades 3-5. The COMETS parent program, "The Family Tree," is an embracing center that makes an aggressive, deliberate effort to reach parents and custodians of elementary and middle school students to encourage them to help their children achieve their academic goals in math and science and realize the connection between their lives and science. In addition to enhancing achievement, the anticipated outcomes of COMETS include promoting positive attitudes toward science education by parents and students, inspiring students to choose science for their future education and employment paths, and improving the knowledge and appreciation of earth and space sciences in participating educators. Through the professional development of approximately 50 formal, informal, and pre-service educators, both "COMETS" students and other students of these trained educators learn science as inquiry and are exposed to high quality curricula and materials for approximately two hours per week during the academic year and four hours per week during the six-week summer program. Participating educators collaborate in vertical teams through a professional learning community to guide COMETS activities which will support and complement formal curricula.

为期三年的“社区教育未来的科学家（COMETS）”项目正在实施一项地球和空间科学计划，重点是通过马歇尔大学与美国宇航局IV V教育资源中心、卡纳瓦县学校、拜耳作物科学公司和西弗吉尼亚州克莱艺术和科学中心合作，将科学作为探究学习。COMETS的目标是在西弗吉尼亚州查尔斯顿的五个社区中心招收200名低收入、代表性不足和少数民族学生，以纳入以美国宇航局为中心的非正式科学教育项目。通过创新的实践调查与学生的正式课程相协调，该计划旨在激发，激励，促进学术成就，并扩大3-5年级学生的常规在校学习经验。COMETS家长计划“家谱”是一个包容中心，积极主动地接触中小学生的家长和监护人，鼓励他们帮助孩子实现数学和科学的学业目标，并实现他们的生活与科学之间的联系。除了提高成绩外，COMETS的预期成果包括促进家长和学生对科学教育的积极态度，鼓励学生为未来的教育和就业道路选择科学，以及提高参与教育工作者对地球和空间科学的知识和认识。通过大约50名正式，非正式和职前教育工作者的专业发展，“COMETS”学生和这些受过培训的教育工作者的其他学生都将科学作为探究学习，并在学年期间每周约两小时接触高质量的课程和材料，在为期六周的夏季课程中每周四小时。参与的教育工作者通过专业学习社区在垂直团队中合作，指导COMETS活动，这些活动将支持和补充正式课程。