New, GK-12: SCWIBLES - Santa Cruz-Watsonville Inquiry-Based Learning in Environmental Sciences

加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的环境科学研究生将与沃森维尔高中的教师和学生合作，开发和实施环境科学与自然资源学院课程中基于探究的部分。SCWIBLES （Santa Cruz - Watsonville环境科学探究式学习）的目标是：(1)培养研究生在多元文化社会中有效地代表生态和进化研究的过程和结果，并与不同的利益相关者合作，确定解决环境问题的关键科学需求；(2)为教师提供研究经验和基于探究的工具，帮助学生成为了解自然资源的利益相关者，他们可以与科学家一起解决未来的环境问题。该项目包括一个联合教师研究和课程开发的暑期项目，一个激励学生参与环境科学的暑期项目，指导为期一年的高年级顶点项目，以及一个社区论坛，以突出学生的科学活动和基于stem的职业。研究员将接受教育理论和实践方面的专门研究生培训，重点是在多语言、多元文化的社会中进行有效的科学传播。环境问题对有色人种群体的影响尤为严重，而环境科学领域的专业人士绝大多数是白人。SCWIBLES旨在通过增加一个农村公立学区学生的学业成功和就业机会来增加环境科学的多样性，该学区有75%的西班牙裔学生，并且有表现不佳的历史。它将加强在农业、环境管理和绿色技术等区域重要领域的就业和高等教育途径。

Environmental science graduate students at the University of California Santa Cruz will work with teachers and students at Watsonville High School to develop and implement inquiry-based components of their Environmental Science and Natural Resources Academy curriculum. The objectives of SCWIBLES (Santa Cruz - Watsonville Inquiry-Based Learning in Environmental Sciences) are to (1) train graduate students to effectively represent the process and outcomes of ecological and evolutionary research to a culturally diverse society, and to work with diverse stakeholders to identify critical scientific needs for environmental problem solving, and (2) provide teachers with research experience and inquiry-based tools to help students become well informed natural resource stakeholders who can work with scientists to solve environmental problems in the future. The project includes a summer program for joint Fellow-Teacher research and curriculum development, a summer program to motivate student involvement in environmental sciences, mentoring year-long Senior capstone projects, and community forums to highlight student science activities and STEM-based careers. Fellows will receive specialized graduate training in educational theory and practice focused on effective science communication in a multilingual, multicultural society. Environmental issues disproportionately affect communities of color, while professionals in environmental sciences are overwhelmingly white. SCWIBLES aims to increase the diversity in the environmental sciences by increasing the academic success and career opportunities for students in a rural public school district with 75% Hispanic students and a history of under-performance. It will enhance pathways to jobs and postsecondary education in regionally important fields of agriculture, environmental management, and green technology.