Barcoding Life's Matrix: Engaging Students as Citizen Scientists in the Barcode of Life Initiative

生命条形码条形码：让学生作为公民科学家参与生命条形码计划

• 批准号: 1030083
• 负责人: Ralph Imondi
• 金额: $ 84.1万
• 依托单位: Coastal Marine Biolabs Integrative Biosciences Program
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2015-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1030083&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Barcoding; Life; Matrix; Engaging; Students

The Barcode of Life Initiative (BOLI) is an international biodiversity collaboration that creates a genetic encyclopedia of Earth's plants and animals using short DNA sequences that uniquely identify species groups. The goal of this strategies project is to interest students in STEM careers by engaging them in an international project to provide identification of biological species. This work builds on prior successful extended activities that immerse high school students and teachers in the real work of the scientific community to do DNA barcoding of flora and fauna in the Channel Islands kelp forest and marine protected areas. Over the three year period, nine cohorts of ten students each learn about DNA sequencing and developing barcodes of select fish and invertebrate species found within the Channel Island kelp forests in week-long residential camps. During each program session, guest scientists and other professionals expose students to career perspectives from a variety of scientific and professional workplace settings. Six five-day teacher professional development workshops enhance teachers' content and technical mastery. In a second workshop, the teachers participate in the barcoding and practice their delivery of the content with students. At the end of the workshop, teachers receive the materials, equipment and supplies needed to guide students through the 16-unit curriculum closely aligned with state and national standards. These instructional modules describe how the concepts, tools, and skills are used to address basic questions, problems, and goals that characterize different segments of the 21st century workplace. They are implemented in high school laboratories, engaging another 2700 students. The connection between the student and teacher sessions will be varied to determine the most effective way to connect the teachers and the students. A Barcoding for Citizen Scientists Portal, a distributed bioinformatics platform, is developed to serve as a user interface for non-professionals engaged in DNA barcoding. Data that meet or exceed quality standards are eligible for export to the professional database. The evaluation measures the extent to which students increase their attitude toward science, their scientific knowledge, skills and critical reasoning abilities, and their ability to apply a variety of technological tools in scientific investigations. Also investigated is the increased ability of teachers to transform their science curriculum to engage students in the process of science and increase their interest in pursuing STEM careers. The project also provides the STEM community with new genetic tools, databases and instructional models for engaging in and teaching science.

生命条码倡议 (BOLI) 是一项国际生物多样性合作项目，利用可唯一识别物种组的短 DNA 序列创建地球植物和动物的遗传百科全书。 该战略项目的目标是通过让学生参与一个提供生物物种鉴定的国际项目来激发学生对 STEM 职业的兴趣。这项工作建立在之前成功的扩展活动的基础上，这些活动让高中生和教师沉浸在科学界的实际工作中，对海峡群岛海带森林和海洋保护区的动植物群进行 DNA 条形码编码。 在三年的时间里，九个小组（每组十名学生）在为期一周的住宿营中学习了 DNA 测序和开发在海峡岛海藻森林中发现的精选鱼类和无脊椎动物物种的条形码。 在每个项目期间，客座科学家和其他专业人士都会向学生展示来自各种科学和专业工作场所环境的职业观点。 六场为期五天的教师专业发展研讨会提高了教师的内容和技术掌握。 在第二次研讨会中，教师参与条形码并与学生一起练习内容的传递。 研讨会结束时，教师会收到指导学生完成与州和国家标准紧密一致的 16 个单元课程所需的材料、设备和用品。 这些教学模块描述了如何使用概念、工具和技能来解决 21 世纪工作场所不同部分的基本问题和目标。 它们在高中实验室实施，吸引了另外 2700 名学生。 学生和教师会话之间的联系将有所不同，以确定连接教师和学生的最有效方式。 公民科学家条形码门户网站是一个分布式生物信息学平台，旨在为从事 DNA 条形码的非专业人士提供用户界面。 达到或超过质量标准的数据有资格导出到专业数据库。 该评估衡量学生对科学的态度、科学知识、技能和批判性推理能力以及在科学研究中应用各种技术工具的能力的提高程度。 调查还包括教师改变科学课程、让学生参与科学过程并提高他们追求 STEM 职业的兴趣的能力的提高。 该项目还为 STEM 社区提供新的遗传工具、数据库和教学模型，用于参与和教授科学。