Arctic Plant Phenology - Learning through Engaged Science

PI将制定和试行一项可扩展的战略，让教育工作者参与极地研究，并使学生能够获得极地研究项目的数据。计划包括让6-12年级和本科科学教育工作者参与格陵兰岛的一个长期、持续的研究项目，该项目研究北极植物的物候变化（例如季节性生命周期事件-在这种情况下是春季植物生长的开始）以及这与气候的关系。教育工作者和学生将在当地环境中进行类似的观察和实验，并将他们的数据贡献给正在进行的研究工作。参与者将包括来自一系列地理位置和学区的学校的大约24名中学，高中和本科教育工作者，这些学校为代表性不足和服务不足的学生提供服务。PI将每年与教育工作者举办一次研讨会，并将开发供教育工作者使用的在线资源。教育工作者将在格陵兰Kangerlussuaq附近的一个实地进行植物物候学的持续研究，他们将学习研究植物物候学的观察和实验方法，他们可以在当地环境中与学生一起使用。 来自科罗拉多的刘易斯堡学院（主要是本科院校）、缅因州的蓝山联合学校和阿拉斯加的圣保罗岛的教育工作者将参加这一项目。此外，在线资源的开发将使扩大的教育工作者网络能够获得北极植物物候学长期研究的数据、相关的课程计划和媒体对格陵兰研究活动的报道。这些在线资源将满足本项目期限以外的教育需求。拟议的活动为学生团体，包括美洲原住民和阿拉斯加阿留申族学生，通过实践培训和基于调查的教育经验参与研究提供了极好的机会。

The PI will develop and pilot a scalable strategy for involving educators in polar research and making data from a polar research program accessible to students. Plans include engaging grades 6-12 and undergraduate science educators in a long-term, ongoing research project in Greenland that examines changes in the phenology (e.g. seasonal life cycle events - in this case, the onset of springtime plant growth) of arctic plants and how this relates to climate. Educators and students will conduct similar observations and experiments in their local environment and will contribute their data to the ongoing research efforts. Participants will consist of approximately 24 middle school, high school, and undergraduate educators from schools across a range of geographical locations and school districts serving underrepresented and underserved students. The PI will conduct a workshop each year with the educators and will develop online resources that will be available to the educators. Educators will be engaged in an ongoing study of plant phenology at a field site near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, and they will learn observational and experimental methods of studying plant phenology that they can use with their students in their local environment. Educators from Fort Lewis College, Colorado, which is a primarily undergraduate institution; Blue Hill Consolidated School, Maine; and St. Paul Island, Alaska, will participate during this project. Additionally, the development of online resources will provide access to data from long-term research on arctic plant phenology, related lesson plans and media representations of research activities in Greenland to an expanded network of educators. These on-line resources will serve educational needs beyond the duration of this project. The proposed activities present outstanding opportunities for the involvement of student groups, including Native American and Alaskan Aleut students, in research through hands-on training and inquiry-based educational experiences.