CCEP-II: MADE-CLEAR - Maryland-Delaware Climate Change Education, Assessment, and Research

马里兰州-特拉华州气候变化教育、评估和研究伙伴关系（已明确）正在两州地区为有效和相关的气候变化教育建立一个可持续的基础设施。虽然MADE CLEAR侧重于8-12年级的正规教育，但该合作伙伴关系还通过博物馆、水族馆和自然中心等其他场所，为大学教师和所有年龄段的学生提供教育，从而覆盖广泛的学习者。通过持续的评估，该伙伴关系正在不断改进向马里兰州和特拉华州的学生提供气候变化教育的方式，从这一伙伴关系中吸取的经验教训正在帮助制定可在全国其他地区应用的教育模式。MADE CLEAR由特拉华州和马里兰大学系统核心机构的教职员工领导，包括特拉华州大学、特拉华州州立大学、马里兰大学、学院公园大学、马里兰大学环境科学中心和陶森大学；以及马里兰州和特拉华州教育部和马里兰州公共电视台。这是两个州相似的自然环境和气候，以及他们在教育改革和应对气候变化方面的积极态度的产物。通过教育研究人员和实践者、地区科学家和科学机构以及州和联邦政府机构的结构化参与，制定明确的方法、具体的目标和目的。这些项目的四个主要目标是：(1)通过让科学界与教育工作者合作，将气候变化概念注入教育的各个方面；(2)通过教师教育和专业发展，构建可持续的气候变化教育基础设施；(3)根据当地社会文化的多样性，在研究和评估方面吸取更广泛的经验教训，创建可应用于其他地区的气候教育模式；(4)在马里兰-特拉华地区及其他地区推进气候变化教育的有效实践。明确是支持教学策略、资源和材料的开发和分发，将气候变化科学与课堂和校外的教学和学习机会结合起来。该伙伴关系还在推动与气候相关的教学和学习模式的研究，最终帮助制定以证据为基础的教育方法和教学实践，从而加深教师的知识和学生对气候科学的理解。MADE CLEAR将马里兰州和特拉华州的公民与他们所生活的世界联系起来，培养他们对当地环境中气候变化的更多认识。该伙伴关系使居民能够考虑他们个人和集体选择的影响，这些选择可以限制气候变化的幅度并适应其后果。通过上述四个总体目标，MADE CLEAR正在马里兰州和特拉华州建立与气候相关的教育的持久能力，并作为综合气候变化教育的国家模式，适应并响应不同教学环境的社会文化多样性。该伙伴关系正在开发新的专业发展模式，以解释气候学习进展，有助于更好地了解循证实践如何提高气候变化教学和学习实践的效力。该项目是气候变化教育伙伴关系（CCEP）计划资助的六个二期项目之一。CCEP项目是美国国家科学基金会气候变化教育项目的一部分，该项目是在2009财年通过国会拨款建立的。CCEP项目是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的一次性专项项目，旨在建立一个以区域或主题为基础的合作伙伴关系协调的国家网络，致力于提高与气候变化及其影响科学相关的有效、高质量的教育项目和资源的采用。CCEP项目包括一项主要的跨学科研究和开发工作，旨在促进对气候系统科学以及气候变化对自然和人类系统的影响的更深入理解和参与。该计划的愿景是建立一个具有科学素养的社会，在面对未来挑战时，能够有效地权衡有关全球气候变化的证据，同时培养创新的科学和技术劳动力，以提高我们对人类与气候相互作用的认识，并为可持续、繁荣的未来开发方法。每个CCEP都需要在正式或非正式的学习环境中纳入气候科学家、学习科学家和教育从业者之间的专业知识创新合作，以研究、设计和测试有效的气候科学教学的新模式和策略。CCEP项目专注于跨学科方法和变革规模的影响，在与气候科学教育和劳动力发展相关的联邦投资组合中占有独特的互补地位。

The Maryland-Delaware Climate Change Education, Assessment, and Research partnership (MADE CLEAR) is building a sustainable infrastructure for effective and relevant climate change education within a two-state region. While MADE CLEAR focuses on formal education in grades 8-12, the partnership also reaches a broad spectrum of learners by educating teachers at universities and students of all ages through additional venues such as museums, aquaria, and nature centers. Through ongoing evaluation, the partnership is continuously improving how climate change education is delivered to students in Maryland and Delaware, and the lessons learned from this partnership are helping to craft education models that can be applied in other locations across the country. MADE CLEAR is led by faculty members at core institutions in Delaware and the University System of Maryland, including the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and Towson University; as well as the Maryland and Delaware Departments of Education and Maryland Public Television. MADE CLEAR is an outgrowth of the states' similar natural environments and climates, and their active approaches to education reform and climate change responsiveness. MADE CLEAR approaches specific goals and objectives through the structured engagement of educational researchers and practitioners, regional scientists and scientific institutions, and state and federal government agencies. The projects' four primary goals are: (1) infuse climate change concepts in all aspects of education by engaging the scientific community in collaboration with educators; (2) build sustainable infrastructure for climate change education through teacher education and professional development; (3) draw broader lessons about research and assessment to create climate education models that can be applied in other regions based on the local socio-cultural diversity; and (4) advance effective practice of climate change education in the Maryland-Delaware region and beyond. MADE CLEAR is supporting the development and distribution of teaching strategies, resources, and materials that integrate climate change science with classroom and out-of-school teaching and learning opportunities. The partnership is also promoting research on climate-related teaching and learning formats, ultimately helping to craft evidence-based educational approaches and instructional practices that deepen teacher knowledge and student understanding of climate science. MADE CLEAR is connecting Maryland and Delaware citizens with the world in which they live by fostering greater awareness of climate change in the local environment. The partnership empowers residents to consider the impacts of their individual and collective choices that can limit the magnitude of climate change and adapt to its consequences. Through the four overarching goals outlined above, MADE CLEAR is building an enduring capacity for climate-relevant education in Maryland and Delaware, and serves as a national model for comprehensive climate change education that is adaptable and responsive to the socio-cultural diversity of different teaching settings. The partnership is developing new models of professional development that account for climate learning progressions, contributing to a greater understanding of how evidence-based practices improve the efficacy of climate change teaching and learning practices. This project is one of six Phase II projects being funded through the Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program. The CCEP program was developed as part of the NSF Climate Change Education program, established through Congressional appropriations in FY 2009. The CCEP program is a one-time, dedicated NSF effort to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. The CCEP portfolio encompasses a major interdisciplinary research and development effort designed to promote deeper understanding of, and engagement with, climate system science and the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems. The vision of this program is a scientifically literate society that can effectively weigh the evidence regarding global climate change as it confronts the challenges ahead, while preparing the innovative scientific and technical workforce to advance our knowledge of human-climate interactions and develop approaches for a sustainable, prosperous future. Each CCEP is required to incorporate innovative collaborations among expertise of climate scientists, learning scientists, and education practitioners in either formal or informal learning environments to research, design, and test new models and strategies for effective teaching and learning about climate science. With its focus on interdisciplinary approaches and transformative scales of impact, the CCEP program occupies a unique and complementary niche in the portfolio of Federal investments related to climate science education and workforce development.