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

与小学生一起探索过去、现在和未来的风景

• 批准号: 0808033
• 负责人: Tina Delahunty
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Texas Tech 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: 2008-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0808033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Exploring; past; present; future; landscape

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.

该规划拨款正在探索利用不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 职业道路并增强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谢迪谷的一片湿地，这是一个罕见的、具有重要生态意义的山地沼泽。 该地点为沉积物取芯提供了良好的条件，为学生提供了通过孢粉学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展示适合年龄的采样策略的视频是增强学生数据收集和分析活动的潜在策略。 规划活动将重点关注地球科学家、学习理论专业人员、课程开发人员、大众传播专业人员、摄像师、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，以明确需求、目标和潜在的合作伙伴关系。