Exploring the past, present and future landscape with elementary school students

该规划资助旨在探索利用不同寻常的景观环境为小学生及其教师提供基于地点和实地的研究经验的教育潜力，作为让他们参与STEM职业道路并提高他们的科学内容知识、创造力和批判性思维技能的工具。大自然保护协会管理着田纳西州Shady Valley的一个湿地，这是一个罕见的、具有重要生态意义的山地沼泽。该地点为沉积物取心提供了良好的条件，这为学生提供了通过孢粉调查了解景观发展和重建全新世环境的机会。整合土地利用变化的历史观点，学生对未来景观的预测，以及制作视频展示适合年龄的抽样策略，都是增加学生数据收集和分析活动的潜在策略。计划活动将集中在地球科学家、学习理论专业人员、课程开发人员、大众传播专业人员、视频摄影师、田纳西州和北卡罗来纳州地理联盟成员、小学教师和管理人员以及大自然保护协会之间的一系列会议上，以澄清需求、目标和潜在的合作伙伴关系。

This Planning Grant is exploring the educational potential of using an unusual landscape setting to provide elementary students and their teachers with place- and field-based research experiences, as a tool for engaging them in STEM career paths and enhancing their science content knowledge, creativity, and critical thinking skills. The Nature Conservancy manages a wetlands site in Shady Valley, Tennessee that is a rare, ecologically-important mountain bog. The site offers excellent conditions for sediment coring, which provides students with the opportunity to learn about landscape development and reconstruct the Holocene environment via palynological investigation. Integration of historical perspectives on land-use changes, student forecasting of future landscapes, and development of a video demonstrating age-appropriate sampling strategies are potential strategies for augmenting student data collection and analysis activities. Planning activities will focus on a series of meetings between geoscientists, learning theory professionals, curriculum developers, mass communication professionals, videographers, members of the Tennessee and North Carolina Geographic Alliances, elementary school teachers and administrators, and the Nature Conservancy, in order to clarify needs, goals, and potential partnerships.