Transforming Minds in a Transitioning Community

在转型社区中转变思想北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校的GK-12项目将几个系研究生项目的研究员与吉尔福德县三所学校（同一社区的一所小学、初中和高中）的师生组成探索小组，科学地调查该地区土地利用模式变化的生物、健康和社会经济影响。研究员的研究问题与当地社区问题和土地利用模式的较大历史变化有关。虽然研究问题集中在社区和区域环境问题上，但项目参与者获得的科学素养技能将使他们能够批判性地和定量地解决任何科学问题或与环境相关的问题，范围从地方到全球范围。研究员和教师将在以学校为基础的团队中开展三项主要任务：开发和提供基于探究的课程计划，提高差异化教学的质量和数量，以及创建K-12学生团队来教授其他科学概念和方法。研究员将学习向广泛的受众交流研究，制定课程计划，培养领导技能，提高教学能力，并与学生一起参与研究活动。教师将把新的研究纳入他们的教学和学习，并参与以探究为基础的科学教学的专业发展，并与不同的学生群体合作。K-12学生将参与到新的科学学习和研究形式中，并将接触到各种STEM职业。

Transforming Minds in a Transitioning CommunityThe GK-12 program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro partners Fellows from several departmental graduate programs with teachers and students at three Guilford County Schools (one elementary, middle and high school in the same neighborhood) to form discovery teams to scientifically investigate the biological, health-related, and socioeconomic effects of changing land use patterns in the region. The research questions of the Fellows are linked to local neighborhood issues and larger historical changes in land use patterns. Although the research questions are focused on neighborhood and regional environmental issues, the scientific literacy skills acquired by program participants will enable them to critically and quantitatively address any scientific question or environmentally-related problem, ranging from local to global scales. Fellows and teachers will work in school-based teams on three primary tasks: the development and delivery of inquiry-based lesson plans, greater quality and quantity of differentiated instruction, and the creation of K-12 student teams to teach others science concepts and methods. Fellows will learn to communicate research to a wide variety of audiences, develop lesson plans, develop leadership skills, enhance their teaching capability, and engage in research activities with students. Teachers will integrate new research into their teaching and learning and take part in professional development on inquiry-based science instruction and working with diverse student groups. K-12 students will become engaged in new forms of science learning and research and will be exposed to a variety of STEM careers.