COSEE - New Collaborations: A Partnership to Assemble "An Introduction to Our Dynamic Ocean" Course

海洋科学教育卓越中心（COSEE）沿海趋势和安妮女王县公立学校（QACPS）地区之间拟议的新合作的目标是使用海洋素养：基本原则和基本概念作为正式确定为期一个学期的初级中学海洋科学课程的基础。我们建议在海洋研究机构（马里兰大学环境科学中心、角点实验室）的COSEE Coastal Trends和马里兰州农村沿海地区的QACPS之间建立伙伴关系。课程团队成员将从现有的课程中编写一门入门级海洋科学课程，名为“我们的动态海洋介绍”，旨在利用实时和接近实时的数据和科学发现。该课程将由马里兰州安妮女王县和整个COSEE沿海趋势地区（MD， DE和VA）的教师进行试点测试。一旦出版，它将作为马里兰州其他学校系统和COSEE网络的样板加以传播。这是一门基于海洋研究和探索的活跃课程，我们将让学生了解海洋及其对地球过程的影响。这些新获得的知识直接回应了公众更好地了解海洋及其在我们生活中的作用的呼吁。将海洋研究和探索纳入课程将确保与真正的科学联系起来。对课程开发过程和课程设置进行严格的评估和评价，将使科学和教育实体之间建立成功的伙伴关系，并成为初级中学理科学生的海洋科学课程典范。通过针对所有进入中学的学生，本课程将接触到在科学领域代表性不足的学生。提高这一群体的海洋科学素养将有助于实现提高公众海洋科学素养的社区目标。这个项目的影响将通过向中大西洋地区的其他学区和整个COSEE网络传播汇编的、试点测试的、改进的和正式的课程来扩大。

The goal of this proposed new collaboration between the Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) Coastal Trends and Queen Anne's County Public School (QACPS) district is to use the Ocean Literacy: Essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts as the foundation for formalizing a semester-long entry level secondary school ocean science course. We propose a partnership between COSEE Coastal Trends, housed at an ocean research institution (University of Maryland, Center of Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory) and QACPS in rural coastal MD. Curriculum team members will assemble an entry level Ocean Science course entitled An Introduction to Our Dynamic Ocean from existing lessons designed to utilize real-time and near real-time data and scientific discoveries. The course will be pilot-tested by teachers in Queen Anne's County, Maryland and throughout the COSEE Coastal Trends region (MD, DE, and VA). Once published, it will be disseminated as a model for other school systems in Maryland and the COSEE Network. In making this an active course based on ocean research and exploration, we will engage students in learning about the ocean and its impact on Earth's processes. Such newly gained knowledge directly answers the call for better public understanding of the ocean and its role in our lives. Integrating ocean research and exploration into the course will assure a connection to authentic science. Rigorous assessment and evaluation of the course development process and the course curriculum will result in both a successful partnership between a scientific and an education entity, and a model ocean science course for entry level secondary science students. By targeting all students as they enter secondary school, this course will reach out to students underrepresented in the sciences. Increasing ocean science literacy among this population will support the community-wide goal of increasing ocean science literacy in the general public. The influence of this project will be expanded by dissemination of the assembled, pilot-tested, refined and formalized course to other school districts in the Mid-Atlantic region and throughout the COSEE network.