LaURGE - Louisiana Undergraduate Recruiting and Geoscience Education

LaURGE - 路易斯安那州本科生招聘和地球科学教育

• 批准号: 0807614
• 负责人: Jeffrey Nunn
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0807614&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LaURGE; Louisiana; Undergraduate; Recruiting; Geoscience

Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge is developing new strategies for exposing K-12 students in Louisiana to geoscience education and career opportunities. Currently, only about 1% of Louisiana students take geoscience in high school as opposed to approximately 99% who take biology. This lack of exposure to geoscience in high school makes it difficult to recruit and retain undergraduate majors, particularly those from underrepresented groups. To address this challenge, PI Nunn and co-investigator Agnew are developing tailored workshops for high school Biology and Physics teachers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA and Centenary College in Shreveport, LA. Both workshops begin with a field trip, followed by inquiry-based lesson plans focused on topics that can be incorporated into the relevant biology or physics course. Biology teachers directly observe and collect sedimentary strata and fossils in the field, then explore lesson plans on evolution in the fossil record, geologic time, and biogeochemical cycles. Supporting lesson plans and resources, including several thousand Eocene and Miocene shark teeth, collections of common minerals, rocks, fossils, and crude oils, are provided to the teachers for classroom implementation. The workshop for Physics teachers begins with a field trip where stream valleys have created hundreds of feet of relief and a series of waterfalls, allowing participants can see exposures of sedimentary rocks and contacts between sedimentary layers. Lesson plans in Physics are being built around wave phenomena and their application to Earth processes (e.g., greenhouse effect, earthquakes, seismic reflection and refraction). Teachers also have an opportunity to use ground penetrating radar and other equipment to image subsurface features. Lesson plans and related instrumentation that can be used in inquiry-based exercises, such as building structures that are resistance to ground motion during earthquakes, are provided for subsequent classroom implementation. The goals of the proposed program are to: interweave geoscience education into the existing curriculum for high school Biology and Physics classes in order to reach a greater number of students; provide teachers of those classes with lesson plans that promote interest in geoscience, foster critical thinking by students, relate what is learned in class to the real world, and are consistent with current knowledge/research in geoscience; and provide teachers with equipment/supplies that make these lesson plans the highlights of the course. The project is being coordinated with ongoing diversity enhancement programs at LSU including the NSF-funded Geoscience Alliance to Enhance Minority Participation (GAEMP) and the Geoscience Diversity Enrichment program funded by Marathon Oil Company.

位于巴吞鲁日的路易斯安那州立大学正在制定新战略，让路易斯安那州的 K-12 学生接触地球科学教育和就业机会。 目前，路易斯安那州只有约 1% 的学生在高中学习地球科学，而大约 99% 的学生在高中学习生物学。高中缺乏对地球科学的接触，导致很难招收和留住本科专业的学生，​​特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的学生。为了应对这一挑战，PI Nunn 和联合研究员 Agnew 正在为路易斯安那州立大学（巴吞鲁日）和 Centenary College（什里夫波特）的高中生物和物理教师量身定制研讨会。 两个研讨会都以实地考察开始，然后是基于探究的课程计划，重点关注可以纳入相关生物学或物理课程的主题。 生物教师在现场直接观察和收集沉积地层和化石，然后探索化石记录、地质时代和生物地球化学循环中的进化课程。支持课程计划和资源，包括数千颗始新世和中新世鲨鱼牙齿、常见矿物、岩石、化石和原油的集合，供教师在课堂上实施。物理教师的研讨会从实地考察开始，溪谷形成了数百英尺的地形和一系列瀑布，使参与者可以看到沉积岩的暴露和沉积层之间的接触。物理学的课程计划是围绕波现象及其在地球过程中的应用（例如温室效应、地震、地震反射和折射）制定的。教师还有机会使用探地雷达和其他设备对地下特征进行成像。提供可用于基于探究的练习的课程计划和相关仪器，例如在地震期间抵抗地面运动的建筑结构，以供后续课堂实施。拟议计划的目标是： 将地球科学教育融入现有的高中生物和物理课程，以惠及更多学生；为这些课程的教师提供课程计划，以促进对地球科学的兴趣，培养学生的批判性思维，将课堂上学到的内容与现实世界联系起来，并与当前的地球科学知识/研究相一致；并为教师提供设备/用品，使这些课程计划成为课程的亮点。该项目正在与路易斯安那州立大学正在进行的多样性增强计划相协调，包括 NSF 资助的增强少数族裔参与的地球科学联盟 (GAEMP) 和马拉松石油公司资助的地球科学多样性丰富计划。