K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators and Higher Education Faculty: Partners Helping Rural Disadvantaged Students Stay on the Pathway to a Geoscience Career.

赖特州立大学的项目“K-12学生、教师、家长、管理人员和高等教育学院：帮助农村弱势学生走上地球科学职业道路的合作伙伴”是一个基于研究的概念验证轨道1试点项目，旨在测试同时实现K-12教师专业发展、学生学习和劳动力发展的创新模式的有效性。该项目正在建立一个科学体验网络，旨在吸引位于俄亥俄州阿巴拉契亚农村地区的里普利、联合、刘易斯、亨廷顿（RULH）学区的八年级和九年级学生，并使他们走上地球科学事业的道路。在这个为期两年的项目中，每年夏天，鲁尔大学的学生、家长、教师、管理人员和学院教职员工都会前往新泽西州桑迪胡克的新泽西海洋资助联盟的设施，从地球系统的角度研究科学。教师有机会与学生一起参与专业发展。在项目的两个学年中，一个由大学科学家和来自地球系统科学教育联盟（ESSEA）的地球科学教育工作者组成的团队将为华南理工大学各学科的教师提供额外的专业发展。鲁尔鲁赫大学的学生在八年级开始进行以问题为基础的科学学习，并有机会在九年级学习地球系统科学课程，这将为他们赢得高中和大学的科学学分。学生们还通过举办社区科学活动参与社区外展活动。

The Wright State University project "K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators and Higher Education Faculty: Partners Helping Rural Disadvantaged Students Stay on the Pathway to a Geoscience Career" is a research-based proof of concept track 1 pilot project that tests the effectiveness of an innovative model for simultaneous K-12 teacher professional development, student learning, and workforce development. The project is building a network of science experiences designed to engage eighth and ninth grade students from the Ripley, Union, Lewis, Huntington (RULH) school district, located in rural Appalachian Ohio, and keep them on the path to a geoscience career. During each summer of the two-year project, teams of RULH students, parents, teachers, administrators and college faculty travel to the facilities of the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium at Sandy Hook, New Jersey to study science from an Earth system perspective. Teachers have the opportunity to engage in professional development alongside their students. During each of the two academic years of the project, additional professional development enrichment is provided to RULH teachers of various disciplines by a team of university scientists and geoscience educators from the Earth System Science Education Alliance (ESSEA), a NSF funded project. RULH students engage in problem-based science learning in the eighth grade and have the opportunity to take a course in Earth system science in the ninth grade that will earn them both high school and college science credits. Students also engage in community outreach by hosting community science events.