Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration of a Keystone Species in New York Harbor

恢复纽约港关键物种的课程和社区企业

• 批准号: 1759006
• 负责人: Lauren Birney
• 金额: $ 200万
• 依托单位: Pace University New York Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-01 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1759006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curriculum; Community; Enterprise; Restoration; Keystone

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase student motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by expanding and testing an innovative curriculum model that features locally relevant, problem-based learning. The curriculum model is organized around habitat restoration in New York harbor and will engage students and teachers in a sequence of activities that span the elementary, middle school, and high school grades of the nation's largest urban school system. Students will conduct field research in support of restoring native oyster habitats, and the project will be implemented by a broad partnership of institutions and community resources, including Pace University, the New York City Department of Education, the Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the New York Academy of Sciences, the New York Harbor Foundation, the New York Aquarium, and others. The project focuses on important concepts in the geological, environmental, and biological sciences that typically receives inadequate attention in schools: watersheds and the roles of keystone species. This project builds on and extends the Billion Oyster Project of the New York Harbor School. The project model includes several interrelated components, including: a teacher education curriculum that includes a component for elementary teachers that focuses on restoration science; a student learning curriculum; a digital platform for project resources; an aquarium exhibit; an after-school STEM mentoring program and a near-peer mentoring program; community based restoration science hubs, and advanced methods in restoration science for high school students that includes genetic barcoding (species ID), environmental DNA sampling and analysis, bacterial monitoring, and basic water chemistry analysis. The project targets students in low-income neighborhoods with high populations of English language learners and students from groups underrepresented in STEM fields and education pathways. The project will directly involve 97 schools, over 300 teachers, and approximately 15,000 K-12 students over a period of four years. A quasi-experimental, mixed-methods research plan will be used to assess the individual and collective effectiveness of project components. Multivariate analyses will be used to identify effective program aspects and assess the individual effectiveness of participation in various combinations of program components. Questions guiding the research include: 1. How does the project influence motivation and preparation to pursue STEM careers among K-12 students? 2. What aspects of the project have a positive influence on underrepresented students' motivation and preparation to pursue STEM careers, compared to other students? And 3. What curricular innovations associated with the project contribute to heightened awareness of and intent to pursue STEM careers among students?This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将推进学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地理解和促进提高学生在科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域追求职业生涯的动机和能力的做法，通过扩展和测试创新的课程模式，该模式具有本地相关性，基于问题的学习。该课程模式是围绕纽约港的栖息地恢复组织的，并将使学生和教师参与一系列活动，这些活动跨越全国最大的城市学校系统的小学、初中和高中年级。学生将进行实地研究，以支持恢复本地牡蛎栖息地，该项目将由机构和社区资源，包括佩斯大学，纽约市教育部，哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球天文台，纽约科学院，纽约港口基金会，纽约水族馆等广泛的合作伙伴关系实施。该项目侧重于地质，环境和生物科学中的重要概念，这些概念通常在学校中没有得到足够的重视：流域和关键物种的作用。这个项目是在纽约海港学校的十亿牡蛎项目的基础上发展起来的。该项目模式包括几个相互关联的组成部分，包括：教师教育课程，其中包括小学教师的一个组成部分，侧重于恢复科学;学生学习课程;项目资源的数字平台;水族馆展览;课后STEM辅导计划和近同行辅导计划;基于社区的恢复科学中心，以及为高中生提供的包括遗传条形码在内的恢复科学先进方法（物种ID）、环境DNA取样和分析、细菌监测和基本水化学分析。该项目的目标是低收入社区的学生，这些社区的英语学习者人数较多，而学生来自STEM领域和教育途径代表性不足的群体。该项目将在四年内直接涉及97所学校，300多名教师和约15，000名K-12学生。一个准实验性的混合方法研究计划将用于评估项目组成部分的个人和集体效力。将使用多变量分析来确定有效的计划方面，并评估参与计划组成部分的各种组合的个人有效性。指导研究的问题包括：1。该项目如何影响K-12学生追求STEM职业的动机和准备？2.与其他学生相比，该项目的哪些方面对代表性不足的学生追求STEM职业的动机和准备产生了积极影响？和3.与该项目相关的课程创新有助于提高学生对STEM职业的认识和意愿？该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

项目成果

The Billion Oyster Project and Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration Science Curriculum: The Digital Platform and Student Symposium Presentations

十亿牡蛎计划和恢复科学课程的课程和社区企业：数字平台和学生研讨会演示

• DOI: 10.5430/jct.v11n8p53
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
• 作者: Birney, Lauren B.;Evans, Brian R.;Kong, Joyce;Solanki, Vibhakumari;Mojica, Elmer-Rico
• 通讯作者: Mojica, Elmer-Rico

The Curriculum and Community Environmental Restoration Science (STEM + Computer Science) Remote Learning Curriculum Use and Evaluation

课程与社区环境恢复科学（STEM计算机科学）远程学习课程使用和评估

• DOI: 10.5430/jct.v11n5p252
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
• 作者: Birney, Lauren;McNamara, Denise M.
• 通讯作者: McNamara, Denise M.

CCERS STEM + C – Emphasis on the Professional Learning of the Classroom Teachers – Expansion of the Pillar

CCERS STEM C – 强调课堂教师的专业学习 – 支柱的扩展

• DOI: 10.5430/jct.v11n4p210
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
• 作者: Birney, Lauren;McNamara, Denise M.
• 通讯作者: McNamara, Denise M.

The Effect of the CCERS STEM + C Project on Information Technology Efficacy in Terms of Gender and Grade Level

CCERS STEM C 项目对性别和年级信息技术效率的影响

• DOI: 10.5430/jct.v12n3p81
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
• 作者: Birney, Lauren;McNamara, Denise M.
• 通讯作者: McNamara, Denise M.

The Billion Oyster Project and Curriculum and Community Enterprise for Restoration Science Curriculum Impact on Teacher Engagement

十亿牡蛎计划和课程及社区企业恢复科学课程对教师参与度的影响

• DOI: 10.5430/jct.v11n4p53
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Curriculum and Teaching
• 作者: Birney, Lauren B.;Evans, Brian R.;Kong, Joyce;Solanki, Vibhakumari;Mojica, Elmer-Rico;Scharff, Christelle
• 通讯作者: Scharff, Christelle