Youth & the Ocean: Teaming High School and Graduate Students Together for Coastal Investigations

加州大学伯克利分校劳伦斯科学堂的加利福尼亚海洋科学教育卓越中心和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校正在利用美国国家科学基金会OEDG资助的项目“减少学术成就的障碍和海洋地球科学事业：开发一个整合海洋地球科学和海洋知识的示范中学计划”补助金#GEO-0703812(也称为“青年和海洋！”)，通过保持中学生进入高中阶段的连续性。这一为期两年的试点项目，名为《青年与海洋：携手高中与研究生共同进行海岸调查》，开发了一个基于探究式的地学教育模式，让人数不足的高中生参与一个长期的潮间带监测项目，以及一个相关的为期一周的探究式住宿研究项目，该项目由研究生导师提供帮助。该项目为24名人数不足的高中生提供了增加他们对地球科学的兴趣、接触和了解地球科学的机会，提高了这些学生从事地球科学研究或职业的可能性。该项目为12名地球科学研究生提供了指导高中生的培训和实践，以增加他们对将严格的教育和推广纳入他们作为未来科学家的研究努力的关键重要性的理解。该项目还用于开发和现场测试一个可复制的、以探究为基础的地球科学教育计划，该计划可广泛用作大学海洋科学实验室完成其外联和公共教育任务的有效模式。

The Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, California at Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley and the University of California Santa Cruz are leveraging the NSF OEDG-funded project, "Reducing Barriers to Academic Achievement & Marine Geosciences Careers: Developing a Model Middle School Program Integrating Marine Geosciences & Literacy" Grant #GEO-0703812 (also known as "Youth & the Ocean!"), by maintaining continuity with middle school student participants as they enter their high school years. This two-year pilot project, Youth & the Ocean: Teaming High School & Graduate Students Together for Coastal Investigations, develops a model inquiry-based geosciences education program that engages underrepresented high school students in a long-term intertidal monitoring project and a related weeklong, inquiry-based, residential research program facilitated by graduate student mentors. This project provides 24 underrepresented high school students with opportunities to increase their interest in, exposure to, and understanding of geosciences, improving the likelihood that these students will pursue geosciences fields of study or careers. The project provides 12 geoscience graduate students with training and practice in mentoring high school students to increase their understanding of the critical importance of incorporating rigorous education and outreach into their research endeavors as future scientists. The project also serves to develop and field-test a replicable, inquiry-based geosciences education program that can be widely used as an effective model for university marine science laboratories to fulfill their outreach and public education missions.