SEEing Science in Appalachia: Serving, Exploring, and Engaging in an Honors Interdisciplinary Science Course at Eastern Kentucky University

在阿巴拉契亚看到科学：服务、探索和参与东肯塔基大学的荣誉跨学科科学课程

• 批准号: 1140309
• 负责人: Walter Borowski
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Eastern Kentucky University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SEEing; Science; Appalachia; Serving; Exploring

The objective of "SEEing Science in Appalachia: Serving, Exploring, and Engaging in an Honors Interdisciplinary Science Course" is to develop a novel, interdisciplinary, laboratory science course to deliver more successful, innovative, and meaningful STEM instruction to highly motivated and academically talented college students from an under-served region of the country. Faculty from the relevant departments at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) are to create the course. Honors instructors from across the university are introduced to relevant place-based pedagogy. The benefits of this unique pedagogy are also extended to middle school students from the 22-county Appalachian service region around EKU. Students are involved in a "service science" project employing both sample collection in the field and analysis in the laboratory. These projects offer on-going environmental monitoring relevant to issues of particular concern in Kentucky and the Appalachian region by focusing on issues of water quality and watershed management and bee and pollinator health and sustainability.The intellectual merit of the project is in the creation, piloting, and dissemination of a model for relevant, place-based, general education STEM instruction throughout Kentucky, the region, and the nation and to introduce relevant and innovative scientific research and instruction into the Eastern Kentucky University Honors Program. The project actively engages students in collecting, recording, analyzing and publishing scientific data about projects with a focus on the 22-county largely Appalachian region that EKU serves and in which many of EKU's students reside. The project is directed by expert and experienced PIs. Sustainability and institutionalization are inherent in the selection of studies and the project design. A comprehensive evaluation plan is designed to substantiate the development of the project and to assess the immediate outcomes and the longer-term impacts of the program on various stakeholders.The broader impacts of the program are several. Faculty and honors students at Eastern Kentucky University are directly impacted by research undertaken and innovative pedagogies used in class. A more comprehensive and accurate understanding of science among future Kentucky teachers and community leaders is a result. Successful role models of high achieving college students (60 per year) and relevant science experience for middle school students (180 per year) from an underrepresented, impoverished area are provided. Ongoing monitoring of data collection at notable sites of environmental study and concern in the Appalachian region occurs. A model for the reform of general education honors science instruction ready for national dissemination is anticipated.

“在阿巴拉契亚看到科学：服务、探索和参与荣誉跨学科科学课程”的目标是开发一门新的、跨学科的实验室科学课程，为来自该国服务不足地区的高积极性和有学术天赋的大学生提供更成功、更具创新性和更有意义的STEM教学。来自东肯塔基大学(EKU)相关系的教员将创建这门课程。来自全校的荣誉教师被介绍给相关的地方教育学。这一独特的教学方法的好处也延伸到了EKU周围22个县的阿巴拉契亚服务区的中学生。学生们参与了一个“服务科学”项目，既在野外采集样本，又在实验室中进行分析。这些项目提供与肯塔基州和阿巴拉契亚地区特别关注的问题相关的持续环境监测，重点关注水质和分水岭管理以及蜜蜂和传粉者的健康和可持续发展问题。该项目的智力优势在于在整个肯塔基州、该地区和全国范围内创建、试点和传播相关的、基于地点的通识教育STEM教学模式，并将相关和创新的科学研究和教学引入东肯塔基大学荣誉计划。该项目积极让学生收集、记录、分析和发布有关项目的科学数据，重点放在EKU服务的22个县(主要是阿巴拉契亚地区)，EKU的许多学生居住在那里。该项目由专家和经验丰富的PI指导。可持续性和制度化是选择研究和项目设计所固有的。设计了一个全面的评估计划，以充实项目的发展，并评估该计划对不同利益相关者的直接结果和长期影响。该计划的更广泛影响有几个。东肯塔基大学的教职员工和优等生直接受到课堂研究和创新教学方法的影响。其结果是，未来的肯塔基州教师和社区领袖对科学有了更全面、更准确的理解。提供了优秀大学生的成功榜样(每年60人)和中学生的相关科学经验(每年180人)，这些学生来自代表性不足的贫困地区。对阿巴拉契亚地区环境研究和关注的著名地点的数据收集进行持续监测。预计会有一个普通教育荣誉科学教学改革的模式，准备在全国推广。