Fueling the Geosciences Educational Pipeline: The development of a K-12 Network to Support Minority Participation

这个机会，以提高多样性的地球科学规划赠款正在努力建立一个网络的教育工作者和管理人员有兴趣加强在整个密西西比州的K-12级的地球科学教育。对密西西比科学教师的调查将建立教师对科学的态度和对密西西比州地球科学的兴趣水平的基线。该调查还将有助于确定科学教师认为最具吸引力或相关的地球科学领域，以确定K-12/大学在随后的夏季规划会议上互动的具体机会。 从密西西比州立大学100英里半径范围内的25个少数民族服务学区挑选K-12教师和管理人员将参加与大学地球科学教师的夏季会议。这些团队将开发以地球科学为重点的课程理念，这些理念最适合州和国家标准以及所在地区现有的科学课程。 此外，研讨会将被用来探索机会，利用大学的研究和设施，在适当的活动，可以增加K-12教师的兴趣和内容知识的地球科学。将确定适当的课程材料，并通过网站提供;该网站还将便利无法亲自参加暑期讲习班的教师参加。

This Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences planning grant is working to build a network of educators and administrators interested in strengthening geoscience education at the K-12 level throughout the state of Mississippi. A survey of Mississippi science teachers will establish a baseline of teacher attitudes toward science and the level of interest in the geosciences in the State of Mississippi. The survey will also help to identify those areas of the geosciences that science teachers find most engaging or relevant, in order to determine specific opportunities for K-12/University interaction during a subsequent summer planning meeting. Select K-12 teachers and administrators from 25 minority-serving school districts within a 100-mile radius of Mississippi State University will attend a summer meeting with university geoscience faculty members. The teams will develop geoscience-focused curriculum ideas that best fit with state and national standards and their district's existing science curriculum. In addition, the workshop will be used to explore opportunities to utilize university research and facilities in appropriate activities that can increase K-12 teacher interest and content knowledge in the geosciences. Appropriate curricular materials will be identified and made available through a website; the website will also facilitate participation of teachers who could not attend the summer workshop in person.