High Adventure Science: Earths Systems and Sustainability

我们已经进入了人类世，在这个时代，70亿人的行为对地球的影响越来越大。高风险科学：地球系统和可持续性项目正在为初中和高中学生开发地球和空间科学课程的模块，测试假设使用计算模型，分析真实世界数据，并参与建立科学推理和论证技能的学生能够更好地理解地球科学的核心思想以及人类如何影响地球系统。康科德联合会与加州大学圣克鲁斯和国家地理学会合作，共同开发这些模块，对这些模块如何提高学生的高阶思维技能和对人类与地球相互作用的理解进行有针对性的研究，并通过影响深远的教育网络广泛传播这些材料。地球系统和可持续性项目正在创建在线，初中和高中课程模块，其中包括计算模型，并涵盖五个主题：气候变化，淡水可用性，化石燃料利用，资源可持续性和土地使用管理。与此同时，项目小组正在进行设计研究，以了解模块中的具体功能、提示、论证和评价工具如何影响学生对地球科学核心概念的理解。设计研究促进快速，迭代的模块开发，并帮助确定支持学生学习的功能，以及科学推理，不确定性科学论证，系统思维和基于模型的实验技能。对于每个模块，前测试和后测试数据，嵌入式评估，学生调查，课堂观察，教师访谈和调查，提供了重要的信息，以快速改进模块功能，内容和可用性。最后的高质量项目材料将通过国家地理学会以及由Concord Consortium主办的高风险科学：地球系统和可持续性网站提供给全国观众。至关重要的是，学生从高中毕业，对有助于解释人类如何影响地球系统的科学概念有着深刻的理解，反过来说，地球过程如何影响人类。高风险科学：地球系统和可持续发展项目提供了一个独特的，以研究为基础的方法来传达给学生核心地球科学内容，交叉概念和科学的基本实践。由此产生的在线课程模块和教师指南提供了下一代地球科学教学材料的令人兴奋的例子，研究结果为学生如何学习核心科学概念和获得关键科学技能提供了新的见解。

We have entered the Anthropocene, an age when the actions of seven billion humans have increasing influence on the Earth. The High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability project is developing modules for middle school and high school students in Earth and Space Science classes, testing the hypothesis that students who use computational models, analyze real-world data, and engage in building scientific reasoning and argumentation skills are better able to understand Earth science core ideas and how humans impact Earth's systems. The Concord Consortium in partnership with the University of California Santa Cruz and the National Geographic Society are co-developing these modules, conducting targeted research on how the modules enhance students' higher order thinking skills and understanding of human-Earth interactions, and broadly disseminating these materials via far-reaching education networks.The High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability project is creating online, middle and high school curriculum modules that feature computational models and cover five topics: climate change, fresh water availability, fossil fuel utilization, resource sustainability, and land use management. At the same time, the project team is conducting design studies to look at how specific features, prompts, argumentation and evaluation tools built into the modules affect student understanding of core Earth science concepts. The design studies promote rapid, iterative module development and help to identify features that support student learning, as well as scientific reasoning, scientific argumentation with uncertainty, systems thinking, and model-based experimentation skills. For each module, pre- and posttest data, embedded assessments, student surveys, classroom observations, teacher interviews and surveys, provide important information to rapidly improve module features, content, and usability. The final, high-quality, project materials are being made available to a national audience through the National Geographic Society as well as through the High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability website hosted at the Concord Consortium. It is essential that students graduate from high school with a solid understanding of the scientific concepts that help explain how humans impact Earth systems, and conversely, how Earth processes impact humans. The High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability project provides a unique, research-based approach to conveying to students core Earth science content, crosscutting concepts, and fundamental practices of science. The resulting online curriculum modules and teacher guides provide exciting examples of next generation Earth science teaching and learning materials, and the research findings provide new insights on how students learn core science concepts and gain critical scientific skills.