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.

全球范围的环境变化对我们的生存至关重要，因为它们可能影响地球维持生命的能力。从教育和研究的角度来看，全球变化的主题在所有年级都呈现出丰富的探究，探索和发现领域。冰川的主要目标是通过训练研究生观察和分析各种空间和时间尺度上的物理和人为过程及其后果，为他们提供一个强大的跨学科视角来研究全球变化。冰川项目的学员也将有机会提高他们的教学技能，并学习如何将他们的研究成果转化为5- 8年级令人兴奋和充满活力的STEM课堂课程。GLACIER还将培训教师使用地理空间技术（如遥感、全球定位系统（GPS）和地理信息系统（GIS））；了解用于研究全球变化的方法和实地工作，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：冰川项目将有助于教育公民，使他们能够对环境做出明智的决定，并培养具有多学科视角和强大分析能力的下一代科学家。最后，系统的评估标准将提供关于我们多学科关注的价值的反馈。GLACIER将加强波士顿大学与剑桥和布鲁克莱恩两个合作学区之间的联系，并加强与当地博物馆、动物园、水族馆和其他现场站点的现有联系。