Collaborative Research: COSEE-Ocean Learning Communities - Connecting Communities around the World's Ocean

合作研究：COSEE-海洋学习社区 - 连接世界海洋社区

• 批准号: 1038857
• 负责人: Frederick Stahr
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: Ocean Inquiry Project
• 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: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1038857&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; COSEE; Ocean; Learning

This effort extends the activities of the Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence: Ocean Learning Communities (COSEE-OLC) located in Washington state. COSEE-OLC fosters the development of communities around ocean issues. It engages these communities, which include the general public and students of all levels, by organizing learning activities across a broad range of informal and formal settings. Throughout the proposed efforts we will work to increase participation of underrepresented persons in ocean research and education, especially through citizen science and associated science learning experiences. We have developed a strong relationship with the Puget Sound region's Marine Volunteer Community (MVC) with whom we engage in ocean awareness and research activities. The MVC has a high amplification factor owing to its broad reach to families and schools visiting beaches up and down the coast and Puget Sound. Second, we will continue to study how and why people learn about the ocean in formal and informal situations in ways that are personally consequential, and we will promote the interdisciplinary Learning Sciences research perspective more generally. We will leverage both of these activities to develop tools and approaches that support scientifically and educationally rigorous citizen science efforts on a variety of ocean research topics. We will engage diverse K-12 students, teachers and adult volunteers in citizen science research and associated learning experiences in partnership with ocean scientists. Learning scientists and informal education staff will design and study educational experiences and curricula to support meaningful learning about the ocean at the Seattle Aquarium, in classrooms, and out in the field. These efforts will include collaboration with programs and institutions already engaged in citizen science to help strengthen and extend the reach of such efforts. Resources and publications will be developed to promote these educational models more broadly.

这项工作扩展了海洋科学教育卓越中心的活动：海洋学习社区（COSEE-OLC）位于华盛顿州。COSEE-OLC促进围绕海洋问题的社区发展。它通过在广泛的非正式和正式环境中组织学习活动，使包括公众和各级学生在内的这些社区参与进来。在整个拟议的努力中，我们将努力增加代表性不足的人对海洋研究和教育的参与，特别是通过公民科学和相关的科学学习经验。我们与普吉湾地区的海洋志愿者社区（MVC）建立了牢固的关系，我们与他们一起参与海洋意识和研究活动。MVC具有很高的放大系数，因为它广泛覆盖到沿海和普吉湾海滩的家庭和学校。第二，我们将继续研究人们如何以及为什么在正式和非正式的情况下学习海洋的方式是个人后果，我们将促进跨学科的学习科学研究的角度更普遍。我们将利用这两项活动来开发工具和方法，支持科学和教育上严格的公民科学在各种海洋研究课题的努力。我们将让不同的K-12学生，教师和成人志愿者参与公民科学研究和与海洋科学家合作的相关学习经验。学习科学家和非正式教育工作人员将设计和研究教育经验和课程，以支持有意义的学习海洋在西雅图水族馆，在教室里，并在外地。这些努力将包括与已经参与公民科学的计划和机构合作，以帮助加强和扩大这些努力的范围。将开发资源和出版物，以更广泛地推广这些教育模式。