Proposal for continued support for the LTER Schoolyard Book Series

关于继续支持 LTER 校园图书系列的提案

• 批准号: 1624129
• 负责人: Adrian Howkins
• 金额: $ 16.73万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-15 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624129&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Proposal; continued; support; LTER; Schoolyard

The Long Term Ecological Research network is developing a children's book series as one component of its broad effort to combine scientific research and science education. The books engage children and their families in learning about the earth's ecosystems through narratives that reflect the research conducted at Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. This project will strengthen and advance the LTER 'schoolyard' book series by completing production of three additional books and by expanding the publication formats of all 12 books to include both eBooks and interactive ePub3 versions. Selected books will be translated into Spanish. Authors and the publisher will work closely with the LTER Communications Office to increase the profile of the book series and to develop a rich resource of materials that can be used by educators throughout the US. The science theme underlying the narrative of each children's book is a topic investigated by LTER researchers; it uses this approach to engage young children from a broad range of backgrounds. This approach is based on an understanding of how children perceive their local environment and encourages young children to develop empathy for the ecosystem in which they live. This empathy can then lead to greater interest in learning more about their own local environments, progressing to interest in other more distant environments as a student matures. This modest award will advance the LTER schoolyard book series in three distinct ways. First, three books currently in development will be completed, bringing to 12 the number of children's books available. The books will represent half of the active LTER projects, bringing knowledge of diverse ecosystems to middle school students. Second, the investigator will develop a formal assessment of the success of the books as educational tools, including their relationship to new science standards. Third, the lead investigator will work with authors, Taylor Trade Publishers, and the LTER Communications Office to develop a business plan for future publications. In the composite these three goals will strengthen an educational book series that has already proved both popular and effective.

长期生态研究网络正在编写一套儿童丛书，作为其将科学研究与科学教育联合收割机结合起来的广泛努力的一个组成部分。这些书籍通过叙述反映在长期生态研究（LTER）地点进行的研究，使儿童及其家庭了解地球的生态系统。该项目将通过完成另外三本书的制作和扩大所有12本书的出版格式，包括电子书和交互式ePub 3版本，加强和推进LTER“校园”系列图书。选定的书籍将被翻译成西班牙语。作者和出版商将与LTER通信办公室密切合作，以提高该系列图书的知名度，并开发可供美国各地教育工作者使用的丰富材料资源。每本儿童读物的叙述背后的科学主题是LTER研究人员调查的一个主题;它使用这种方法来吸引来自广泛背景的幼儿。这种方法基于对儿童如何看待当地环境的理解，并鼓励幼儿对他们所生活的生态系统产生同情。这种同理心可以导致更大的兴趣，更多地了解自己的本地环境，并随着学生的成熟而对其他更遥远的环境产生兴趣。这个温和的奖项将推动LTER校园图书系列在三个不同的方式。首先，目前正在编写的三本书将完成，使现有的儿童书籍达到12本。这些书籍将代表一半的活跃LTER项目，为中学生带来不同生态系统的知识。其次，研究人员将对这些书籍作为教育工具的成功进行正式评估，包括它们与新科学标准的关系。第三，首席调查员将与作者、泰勒贸易出版社和LTER通信办公室合作，为未来的出版物制定业务计划。在这三个目标的综合将加强一个教育系列，已经证明既受欢迎和有效。