Earth Partnership: Indigenous Arts and Sciences -- Connecting STEM to Native Science

该项目将推进“面向学生和教师的创新技术体验”（ITEST）项目的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学、技术、工程、科学和技术领域追求职业的动机和能力的实践。通过提供实证研究结果和/或研究工具，帮助了解K-12学生和教师的哪些模型和干预措施最有可能提高未来STEM和STEM相关密集型劳动力的能力。该项目将为进一步研究美国土著青年教育的最佳做法开辟一条道路。它将通过解决土著学生和教育工作者的文化观点，加强现有的土著艺术和科学项目。该方法描述了在美国土著青年的STEM学习中纳入生态相关性的必要性，并将西方科学与土著知识、过程和核心价值观相结合，这将对美国土著青年对科学的兴趣和学习产生积极影响。该项目将与威斯康星州的四个部落社区合作，提供一种与文化相关的基于管理的教育模式，将科学应用于土著知识和社区文化联系。非正式科学教育将通过地球伙伴关系（EP）提供，并将让参与栖息地恢复和管理的参与者作为跨年龄、学科、文化和地方的代际科学学习的背景。EP土著艺术与科学（IAS）将西方科学与土著知识，过程和核心价值观结合起来，包括关系，互惠，尊重和责任。该项目将汇集来自赤壁、巴德河、火烈湖和Ho-Chunk国家的老年人和社区成员的专业知识，以及大学的社会、物理和生命科学家，以扩大非正式的科学学习，包括生态保护和恢复、公民科学和文化多样性。代表性不足群体的STEM学习和职业道路将在非正式和文化相关的背景下进行，这对于提高生态和STEM素养、效率和公民参与至关重要。IAS将让学生、教育工作者、长者、非正式教育工作者、自然资源专业人士和家长参与社区对话和关系建立、非正式-正式专业发展合作，以及为8-12年级的学生提供本土化的STEM学习经验和指导。科学内容将通过技术增强的、基于项目的学习在现实生活环境中进行探索，并在课堂和非正式环境中整合文化。这个项目是基于越来越多的土著智慧研究，这些研究将土著青年和更广泛的社区与环境重新联系起来。在全球气候和社会变化的关键时刻，该项目广泛涉及科学学习、环境正义、生态恢复、部落历史和文化的交叉点。国际科学研究所将利用这种基于项目的学习模式，推动人们认识到，通过包括长者、家庭、青年、正规和非正规教育工作者在内的合作努力，将非正式科学学习本土化，将如何以及为什么能够振兴文化、社区和教育。

This project will advance efforts of the innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by producing empirical findings and/or research tools that contribute to knowledge about which models and interventions with K-12 students and teachers are most likely to increase capacity in the STEM and STEM cognate intensive workforce of the future.The project will build a path to further research on best practices for Native American youth education. It will enhance the existing Indigenous Arts and Sciences (IAS) project by addressing cultural perspectives of Native students and educators. The approach describes the need to include ecological relevance in STEM learning for Native American youth, with an integration of Western science with Native knowledge, process, and core values, which will give a positive impact on Native American youth's interest in and learning of science. The project will deliver a culturally relevant stewardship-based education model applying science to indigenous knowledge and community culture connections in collaboration with four tribal communities in Wisconsin. Informal science education will come through the Earth Partnership (EP) and will involve participants in habitat restoration and stewardship as a context for intergenerational science learning across age, discipline, culture and place. EP Indigenous Arts and Sciences (IAS) integrates Western science with Native knowledge, process, and core values including relationship, reciprocity, respect and responsibility.The project will convene the expertise of elders and community members from Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac du Flambeau, and Ho-Chunk Nations with university social, physical, and life scientists to expand informal science learning incorporating ecological protection and restoration, citizen science, and cultural diversity. STEM learning and career pathways for underrepresented groups will occur in an informal and culturally relevant contexts becoming important for enhancing ecological and STEM literacy, efficacy and civic engagement. IAS will engage students, educators, elders, informal educators, natural resource professionals, and parents in community dialogues and relationship building, informal-formal professional development collaborations, and indigenized STEM learning experiences and mentoring for students in grades 8-12. The science content will be explored through technology-enhanced, project-based learning in real-life contexts integrating culture in classroom and informal settings. This project is based on a growing body of research on Indigenous wisdom that reconnects Native youth and the broader community with the environment. The project occurs broadly at the intersection of science learning, environmental justice, ecological restoration, tribal history, and culture at a crucial time of global climate and social change. IAS will use this project-based learning model to advance the knowledge of how and why indigenizing informal science learning through a collaborative effort including elders, families, youth, formal and informal educators will revitalize culture, community and education.