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

这一加强地球科学多样性机会计划赠款正在努力建立一个教育工作者和管理人员网络，他们对在密西西比州加强K-12级的地球科学教育感兴趣。对密西西比州科学教师的调查将建立教师对科学的态度和密西西比州对地球科学的兴趣水平的基线。调查还将有助于确定科学教师认为最吸引人或最相关的地球科学领域，以便在随后的暑期规划会议期间确定K-12/大学互动的具体机会。来自密西西比州立大学方圆100英里范围内25个少数族裔服务学区的精选K-12教师和管理人员将参加与大学地球科学教职员工的夏季会议。这些团队将开发最符合州和国家标准以及所在地区现有科学课程的以地球科学为重点的课程理念。此外，讲习班将被用来探索在适当的活动中利用大学研究和设施的机会，以增加K-12教师对地球科学的兴趣和教学知识。将确定适当的课程材料，并通过网站提供；该网站还将便利不能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.