NSF GK-12 Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education GLACIER-Global Change Initiative-Education & Research

NSF GK-12 K-12 教育 STEM 研究生研究员 GLACIER-全球变革倡议-教育

• 批准号: 0947950
• 负责人: Sucharita Gopal
• 金额: $ 284.41万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; GK; 12; Graduate; STEM

Global-scale environmental changes are critical to our survival as they may affect the capacity of the Earth to sustain life. From the perspective of education and research, the topic of global change presents a rich domain of inquiry, exploration, and discovery at all grade levels. GLACIER's primary goal is to provide graduate fellows a strong interdisciplinary perspective on global change research by training them to observe and analyze both physical and anthropogenic processes and their consequences at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. GLACIER fellows will also have the opportunity to enhance their teaching skills and learn how to translate their research into exciting and dynamic STEM classroom lessons in grades 5- 8. GLACIER will also train teachers to use geospatial technologies (such as remote sensing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)); learn about methods and field work used to study global change, create sustainable curricula for grades 5-8 based on an inter-disciplinary approach, and cultivate new ways of engaging their students to think about environmental problems. Broader Impacts: GLACIER will help educate a citizenry that can make informed decisions about the environment, and to train future generation of scientists with a multi-disciplinary perspective and strong analytical skills. Finally, systematic evaluation criteria will provide feedback regarding the value of our multi-disciplinary focus. GLACIER will strengthen the ties between Boston University and two partner school districts of Cambridge and Brookline, as well as enhance existing links to local museums, zoo, aquarium, and other field sites.

全球规模的环境变化对我们的生存至关重要，因为它们可能会影响地球维持生命的能力。从教育和研究的角度来看，全球变化的主题在各个年级都提出了丰富的探究，探索和发现领域。冰川的主要目标是通过训练他们观察和分析身体和人为过程，以在各种空间和时间尺度上观察和分析其后果，从而为全球变化研究提供强大的跨学科观点。 冰川研究员还将有机会提高他们的教学能力，并学习如何将他们的研究转化为5至8年级的令人兴奋的动态STEM课堂课程。冰川还将培训教师使用地理空间技术（例如遥感，全球定位系统（GPS）和地理信息系统（GIS）（GIS）（GIS））；了解用于研究全球变化的方法和现场工作，基于跨学科方法为5 - 8年级创建可持续的课程，并培养吸引学生思考环境问题的新方法。更广泛的影响：冰川将帮助教育一个可以做出有关环境的明智决定的公民，并以多学科的观点和强大的分析技能来培训未来的科学家。最后，系统评估标准将提供有关我们多学科重点的价值的反馈。冰川将加强波士顿大学与剑桥和布鲁克林的两个合作伙伴学区之间的联系，并加强与当地博物馆，动物园，水族馆和其他现场地点的现有联系。