Collaborative Research: A synthesis of EarthScope educational resources integrated into the "Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience"

协作研究：将 EarthScope 教育资源综合整合到“阿拉斯加本土地球科学学习体验”中

• 批准号: 1735954
• 负责人: Beth Pratt-Sitaula
• 金额: $ 20.8万
• 依托单位: Central Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1735954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; synthesis; EarthScope; educational

Alaska experiences more earthquake and volcanic activity than any other US state, and many Alaskan communities are unusually remote and will potentially be isolated from support during a natural disaster. The EarthScope Alaska Native Geoscience Learning Experience (EarthScope ANGLE) aims to increase Alaskan resilience to geohazards through education and building of an action oriented statewide learning community that connects formal and informal educators, emergency management personnel, scientists, students, community elders and other organizations in rural villages. The great earthquakes and tsunamis that devastated Sumatra on December 26, 2004, Chile on February 27, 2010 and Japan on March 11, 2011 have heightened public concern about similar geologic hazards in our own country. As part of a nationwide effort to study earthquakes and the Earth's crust, the NSF EarthScope Program has been deploying hundreds of seismic, GPS, and other geophysical instruments across the United States. Recently deployed in Alaska, these instruments provide detail for ongoing research showing that coastal regions are storing energy that will be released in great earthquakes, with resulting tsunamis that may impact the entire west coast of the US and Hawaii. Thousands of Alaskan residents live within severe earthquake-shaking and tsunami-inundation zones, and millions of tourists visit state and federal parks in these same areas each year. Teachers in the K-12 school systems convey some basics about geological hazards to their students, and park rangers and museum educators likewise engage visitors at their sites. Both of these groups also at times work with emergency managers. ANGLE is strengthening these efforts by providing community-based workshops that bring together all of these professionals to review the basic science of earthquakes and tsunamis, learn about EarthScope and other research efforts that monitor the dynamic Earth in the region, and develop ways to collectively engage students and the general public on the mitigation of coastal geologic hazards.The ANGLE project is a collaborative effort among geoscience educators from Alaska Pacific University and Central Washington University with the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) at the University of Alaska Anchorage. From 2017-2020, four Educator Professional Development workshops and eight ANSEP academies for Alaska Native students will be conducted. Through these workshops and academies, ANGLE establishes a statewide network of stakeholders that includes students, teachers and Native Elders from rural Alaska Native villages, some of Alaska's most vulnerable communities. The emphasis on educators and Native students will ensure that a wide variety of learners will be reached, either directly or by later contact with ANGLE participants. A synthesis of existing EarthScope educational materials and methods, translated to an Alaskan setting, will form the core of the programming. Drawing from methods of previous EarthScope education projects, ANGLE will incorporate best practices including societal relevance of science, data collection and analysis, nature of science, learning community development, current science standards, and place-based and cultural knowledge. Participating educators will learn about ongoing research on Alaskan tectonics, earthquakes and tsunamis, and about how EarthScope is advancing frontiers of knowledge about geologic hazards in the region. Emergency management outreach leaders will contribute to discussions on emergency preparedness actions. Master teachers offer pedagogical guidance and ideas about assessment and interaction, while experienced interpreters discuss how to reach a variety of audiences in settings outside the classroom. In follow-up share-a-thons, the teachers and interpreters showcase how they have crafted their new knowledge into Earth science and emergency preparedness learning experiences for K-12 students and visitors to parks and museums. Ultimately thousands of learners in various settings will be reached. The final ANGLE-synthesized collection of EarthScope resources will be hosted on the well-known Science Education Resource Center website (5 million visitors/year) and reviewed by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers insuring high profile access to the resources for years to come.

阿拉斯加经历的地震和火山活动比美国其他任何一个州都多，而且阿拉斯加的许多社区都非常偏远，在自然灾害期间可能会失去支持。EarthScope阿拉斯加原住民地球科学学习体验(EarthScope ANGLE)旨在通过教育和建立面向行动的全州学习社区，将正式和非正式的教育工作者、应急管理人员、科学家、学生、社区长老和农村的其他组织联系起来，提高阿拉斯加人对地质灾害的复原力。2004年12月26日袭击苏门答腊岛、2010年2月27日袭击智利、2011年3月11日袭击日本的大地震和海啸加剧了公众对我国类似地质灾害的担忧。作为全国范围内研究地震和地壳的努力的一部分，NSF地球望远镜计划已经在美国各地部署了数百台地震、GPS和其他地球物理仪器。这些仪器最近部署在阿拉斯加，为正在进行的研究提供了细节，这些研究表明，沿海地区正在储存在大地震中释放的能量，随之而来的海啸可能会影响整个美国西海岸和夏威夷。数以千计的阿拉斯加居民生活在严重的地震和海啸淹没地区，每年有数百万游客参观这些地区的州立和联邦公园。K-12学校系统的教师向学生传授一些关于地质灾害的基本知识，公园护林员和博物馆教育人员也同样在他们的地点吸引游客。这两个组织有时也会与应急经理合作。Angel正在通过提供社区研讨会来加强这些努力，这些研讨会将所有这些专业人员聚集在一起，回顾地震和海啸的基础科学，了解EarthScope和其他监测该地区动态地球的研究工作，并开发出共同参与学生和公众减轻沿海地质灾害的方法。该项目是来自阿拉斯加太平洋大学和中央华盛顿大学的地球科学教育工作者与阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇大学的阿拉斯加原住民科学与工程计划(ANSEP)合作开展的。从2017-2020年，将为阿拉斯加原住民学生举办4个教育者专业发展讲习班和8个ANSEP学院。通过这些研讨会和学院，ANGE在全州范围内建立了利益相关者网络，其中包括来自阿拉斯加原住民村庄的学生、教师和土著长老，这些村庄是阿拉斯加最脆弱的社区之一。对教育者和原住民学生的重视将确保将直接或后来通过与天使参与者的接触接触到各种各样的学习者。综合现有的EarthScope教育材料和方法，翻译成阿拉斯加的背景，将构成该方案的核心。从以前地球范围教育项目的方法中借鉴，ANGING将纳入最佳做法，包括科学的社会相关性、数据收集和分析、科学的性质、学习社区的发展、当前的科学标准以及基于地点和文化的知识。参与的教育工作者将了解正在进行的关于阿拉斯加构造、地震和海啸的研究，以及EarthScope如何推动该地区地质灾害知识的前沿。应急管理外展领导人将对应急准备行动的讨论作出贡献。大师提供教学指导和关于评估和互动的想法，而经验丰富的口译员则讨论如何在课堂外的环境中接触到各种受众。在后续的分享活动中，教师和口译员展示了他们如何将新知识融入到地球科学和应急准备的学习体验中，供K-12学生以及公园和博物馆的游客使用。最终，将接触到各种环境中的数千名学习者。地球范围资源的最终角度综合收集将放在著名的科学教育资源中心网站上(每年访问500万人)，并由国家地球科学教师协会审查，以确保在未来几年内高调地使用这些资源。