LIGO Science Education Center Partnership (SUBR)

LIGO 科学教育中心合作伙伴 (SUBR)

• 批准号: 0917543
• 负责人: Luria Young
• 金额: $ 227万
• 依托单位: Southern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917543&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LIGO; Science; Education; Center; Partnership

This award is one component of a collaborative effort to fund the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Science Education Center Partnership between Southern University in Baton Rouge (SUBR), LA, and the LIGO Livingston site in Livingston, La, through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF). The managing institution for LIGO itself is California Institute of technology. The entire partnership includes the LIGO Laboratory, SUBR's College of Education and Physics, Mathematics, and Science/Mathematics Education Departments, the Louisiana Systemic Initiatives Program (LaSIP) and Louisiana Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (LA GEAR UP), under the LA Board of Regents, and the San Francisco Exploratorium. The LIGO Science Education Partnership is a project that combines the efforts of a cutting-edge research laboratory, a university, a State educational reform agency, and a leading museum that specializes in informal science education. The focus of the project is the creation of an effective center for teacher training and teacher education centered on LIGO activities in Louisiana. A previous award helped create the SEC building, with a classroom and a large exhibit hall, with exhibits developed by the Exploratorium and staffed by SUBR student docents and a (separately funded) professional staff. This new award will extend and strengthen this success, and begin several new activities, including studies of the way children learn in both informal and formal settings supported by this award, and the effectiveness of the teacher professional development supported by this award. These new activities will both provide scholarly work on informal and formal science education but will also provide feedback to the project which can be used to increase the effectiveness of the activities.

该奖项是巴吞鲁日南方大学（SUBR）和利文斯顿LIGO利文斯顿站点之间合作资助激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）科学教育中心伙伴关系的一个组成部分，通过巴吞鲁日地区基金会（BRAF）。LIGO的管理机构是加州理工学院。整个合作伙伴关系包括LIGO实验室，SUBR的教育和物理学院，数学和科学/数学教育部门，路易斯安那州系统倡议计划（LaSIP）和路易斯安那州获得早期意识和准备本科课程（LA GEAR UP），洛杉矶董事会和旧金山探索馆。LIGO科学教育合作项目是一个结合了前沿研究实验室、一所大学、一个国家教育改革机构和一个专门从事非正式科学教育的领先博物馆的努力的项目。该项目的重点是在路易斯安那州建立一个有效的以LIGO活动为中心的教师培训和教师教育中心。之前的一个奖项帮助创建了SEC大楼，其中有一间教室和一个大型展厅，展品由探索博物馆开发，由SUBR学生讲述者和（单独资助的）专业人员组成。这个新的奖项将扩展和加强这一成功，并开始一些新的活动，包括研究儿童在非正式和正式环境下的学习方式，以及由这个奖项支持的教师专业发展的有效性。这些新的活动将提供关于非正式和正式科学教育的学术工作，而且还将向该项目提供可用于提高活动有效性的反馈。