Strategies: Water SCIENCE: Supporting Collaborative Inquiry, Engineering, and Career Exploration with Water

策略：水科学：支持水的协作探究、工程和职业探索

• 批准号: 1433761
• 负责人: Carolyn Staudt
• 金额: $ 119.96万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1433761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategies; Water; SCIENCE; Supporting; Collaborative

As part of an overall strategy to develop understandings of best practice factors, contexts and processes contributing to K-12 students' motivation and participation in STEM, the ITEST Program funds foundational and applied research projects that build student awareness of STEM and STEM-related careers. This ITEST Strategies project, Supporting Collaborative Inquiry, Engineering, and Career Exploration with Water (Water SCIENCE), engages middle school students in project-based learning around their community's water resources. Through the innovative use of technology the project enables data sharing among schools in different parts of the country and provides a forum for the development of a professional learning community for teachers. The project turns tablet computers now found in secondary schools into mobile science labs, harnessing the built-in cameras for chemical and visual analysis of water samples.A total of 30 middle school science teachers from diverse districts in southern Arizona, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Eastern Massachusetts are participating serving more than 2000 middle school students over the three-year project. Students will use an innovative mobile lab to perform water quality analysis and aggregate the results on an existing data sharing platform. In consultation with university mentors and stem professionals, students design and conduct classroom engineering projects that model real-world technologies for improving water quality. Virtual mentoring sessions provide opportunities for students to ask questions of STEM professionals and learn about careers in environmental science and conservation. As a culminating experience students engage in a role-playing exercise involving a simulated water emergency. Teachers will receive over 40 hours of professional development as well as a classroom set of hands-on science and engineering materials undergraduate and graduate students will participate as mentors. A systematic investigation of the impact of integrating purposefully designed inquiry, engineering, and career orientation activities into science instruction at the middle school level will be conducted. Student outcomes explored include stem career awareness and interests, stem content knowledge, and the development of supportive mentoring relationships with university students and stem professionals. Comprehensive data will be collected using a variety of research instruments and analyzed both statistically and qualitatively.This project team is comprised of specialists in K-12 curriculum and educational technology development (Concord Consortium), environmental sustainability (Arizona State University), freshwater science and conservation (Stroud Water Resource Center), and hands-on engineering education (Machine Science, Inc.). The Water SCIENCE project helps advance NSF's goal of broadening participation and diversifying the STEM workforce.

作为加深对有助于 K-12 学生动机和参与 STEM 的最佳实践因素、背景和流程的理解的总体战略的一部分，ITEST 计划资助基础和应用研究项目，以培养学生对 STEM 和 STEM 相关职业的认识。这个 ITEST 战略项目支持水的协作探究、工程和职业探索（水科学），让中学生围绕社区水资源进行基于项目的学习。通过技术的创新使用，该项目实现了全国不同地区学校之间的数据共享，并为教师专业学习社区的发展提供了论坛。该项目将中学中使用的平板电脑变成移动科学实验室，利用内置摄像头对水样进行化学和视觉分析。来自亚利桑那州南部、宾夕法尼亚州东南部和马萨诸塞州东部不同地区的总共 30 名中学科学教师参与了这个为期三年的项目，为 2000 多名中学生提供服务。学生将使用创新的移动实验室进行水质分析，并将结果汇​​总到现有的数据共享平台上。在与大学导师和科学专业人士协商后，学生设计并开展课堂工程项目，模拟现实世界的水质改善技术。虚拟辅导课程为学生提供了向 STEM 专业人士提问并了解环境科学和保护职业的机会。作为最终体验，学生们将进行涉及模拟水紧急情况的角色扮演练习。教师将接受 40 多个小时的专业发展以及一套课堂实践科学和工程材料，本科生和研究生将作为导师参与。将系统地调查将有目的地设计的探究、工程和职业导向活动融入中学科学教学的影响。探索的学生成果包括 Stem 职业意识和兴趣、Stem 内容知识以及与大学生和 Stem 专业人士建立支持性指导关系。将使用各种研究工具收集综合数据，并进行统计和定性分析。该项目团队由 K-12 课程和教育技术开发（协和联盟）、环境可持续性（亚利桑那州立大学）、淡水科学和保护（斯特劳德水资源中心）以及实践工程教育（机器科学公司）方面的专家组成。水科学项目有助于推进 NSF 扩大参与并使 STEM 劳动力多样化的目标。