New, GK-12 Grass Roots: Advancing Education in Renewable Energy and Cleaner Fuels through Collaborative Graduate Fellow/Teacher/Grade-School Student Interactions

新的 GK-12 草根：通过研究生/教师/小学学生的协作互动推进可再生能源和清洁燃料的教育

• 批准号: 1045513
• 负责人: Paulette Clancy
• 金额: $ 144万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1045513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; GK; 12; Grass; Roots

PI Name: Paulette Clancy Institution Name: Cornell University Proposal Title: GK-12 Grass Roots: Advancing Education in Renewable Energy and Cleaner Fuels through Collaborative Graduate Fellow/Teacher/Grade-School Student Interactions Proposal ID: 1045513Cornell GK-12 Fellows from engineering and the physical sciences are researching new ways to create renewable energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal and biomass) and other creative ways to reduce our carbon footprint. The core and strength of this GK-12 project lies in the development of new materials for energy creation and storage that achieve high performance and remain environmentally benign. The project will place graduate students in these fields into classrooms in grades 6-12 and will leverage strengths in creating computational tools to design new energy materials, predict their properties, and work synergistically with experiments, to accelerate commercialization. Coupled with their research, Fellows will undertake a new educational program for developing communication skills that will be highly effective with diverse communities and provide a life-long societal benefit for the promotion of science. The Fellows will share their passion for energy research with students in middle and high school, especially those in Onondaga Nation schools close to Cornell. An early project, requested by the Elders, involves Fellows, faculty, and school students designing and building a solar (thermal) greenhouse as a hands-on project that fits a culture of earth stewardship. Many of the projects are strongly visual and computationally based, making them suitable for use by many communities, including students with hearing challenges, allowing their creativity to be fully realized. Fellows will enrich their research skills in energy projects, especially biofuels, through visits to a partner university in India, where they will take part in hands-on experience at a sugar mill where need for energy production must be balanced against that for food.

PI名称：Palette Clancy机构名称：康奈尔大学提议标题：GK-12基层：通过协作毕业生/教师/老师/年级学生互动提案的可再生能源和清洁剂的教育供应：1045513CORNELL GK-12减少碳足迹的创新方法。 该GK-12项目的核心和力量在于开发新的能源创造和存储材料，以实现高性能并保持环境良性。该项目将把这些领域的研究生置于6 - 12年级的教室中，并将利用优势来创建计算工具来设计新的能源材料，预测其特性并与实验协同工作，以加速商业化。再加上他们的研究，研究员将采用一项新的教育计划，以发展沟通技巧，该计划将在不同的社区中非常有效，并为促进科学提供终生的社会利益。研究员将与中学和高中的学生，尤其是在康奈尔大学附近的Onondaga Nation学校中分享他们对能源研究的热情。长辈要求的一个早期项目涉及研究员，教职员工和学校学生，设计和建造太阳能（热）温室，作为一个适合地球管理文化的动手项目。 许多项目都是强烈的视觉和计算基础，使其适合许多社区使用，包括有听力挑战的学生，从而使其创造力得到充分实现。 研究员将通过访问印度的一所伙伴大学来丰富他们在能源项目（尤其是生物燃料）方面的研究技能，在那里他们将在糖厂中参加动手体验，在那里必须与食品进行能源生产的需求与食物保持平衡。