Hazards TEAMS: Teacher Education & Activities for Minority Students in the Meteorological, Geologic and Hydrologic Hazards. TRACK 1

密西西比州立大学地球科学和土木工程与环境工程项目正在合作，在自然灾害的共同主题下，为K-12教师和学生提供地质学、气象学和水文学方面的学习经验。灾害小组项目有四个目标：1)增加K-12教师的地球科学知识，2)增加学生对地球科学职业和获得这些职业所需途径的知识，3)通过课堂授课和密西西比州立大学(MSU)有趣的动手活动提高学生对地球科学的兴趣，以及4)更好地使指导顾问指导学生进入地球科学专业和职业道路。该项目团队正在为来自密西西比州少数民族高中学区以及密西西比州移民学生教育中心的8-10名“伙伴教师”提供与危害有关的研讨会。在接下来的一年里，这些伙伴教师为第二组教师主持了一个类似的讲习班。初中生和初中生通过活动日和密歇根州立大学校园的夏令营，以及教师能够带到课堂上的材料和课程，获得有关地球科学的知识。活动日和夏令营增加了学生对地球科学的兴趣，并使初中生接触到大学校园和实验室。他们还让年轻学生接触到目前正在注册的专业的个人，这些人可能会成为地球科学领域的榜样。通过邮寄给全州指导顾问的设计手册，也解决了增加学生对地球科学可用职业和大学专业的知识的重点。在编写该手册之前，对指导顾问进行了调查，以确定他们对地球科学领域现有职业和教育途径的认识，以及学生可以利用的课程和活动，以增加他们进入并完成地球科学专业的成功机会。

The Mississippi State University Geosciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering programs are collaborating to provide learning experiences for both K-12 teachers and students in geology, meteorology and hydrology under the common theme of natural hazards. The Hazards TEAMS project has 4 goals: 1) to increase K-12 teachers' Earth Science content knowledge, 2) to increase students' knowledge of geoscience careers and the path needed to obtain them, 3) to increase student interest in geosciences through engaging lessons in the classroom and fun hands-on activities at Mississippi State University (MSU), and 4) to better enable guidance counselors to direct students into geoscience majors and career paths. The project team is providing a hazards-related workshop for 8-10 "Partner Teachers" from high-minority Mississippi school districts, as well as the Mississippi Migrant Student Education Center. During the following year, these partner teachers lead a similar workshop for a second group of teachers. Middle and junior high school students are gaining knowledge about the geosciences through activity days and a summer camp on the MSU campus as well as through materials and lessons the teachers are able to bring into the classroom. The activity days and summer camp are increasing student interest in the geosciences as well as exposing middle or junior high school students to a college campus and laboratories. They are also exposing younger students to individuals currently enrolled in majors leading to careers in the geosciences who may serve as role models. The focus on increasing students' knowledge of careers and college majors available in the geosciences is also addressed through designed brochures that are mailed to guidance counselors throughout the state. Prior to the creation of the brochure, guidance counselors are surveyed to determine their awareness of the careers and education pathways available in the geosciences, as well the coursework and activities students can take advantage of to increase their chance of success in entering and completing a geoscience major.