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Teaching Science Outdoors: A Next Generation Approach for Advancing Elementary Science Teaching in Urban Communities

户外科学教学：推进城市社区基础科学教学的下一代方法

基本信息

批准号：
1907506
负责人：
Gail Richmond
金额：
$ 211.75万
依托单位：
Michigan State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-07-01 至 2024-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1907506&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Teaching Science Outdoors Next Generation

项目摘要

This project addresses a long-standing challenge in science education centered on providing meaningful science education opportunities to students living in communities of high poverty and attending under-resourced elementary schools. These students are significantly less likely to receive high-quality science learning opportunities and to be encouraged to engage in (rather than simply learn about) science. This Michigan State University research project is designed to enhance the capacity of elementary teachers in high-poverty urban communities for enacting Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) -aligned science approaches using the outdoors as part of their classroom. It builds on and advances prior outdoor education work for the current context of science education that requires elementary teachers to engage students in making sense of phenomena using next generation science and engineering practices. The goal of this project is to advance elementary teachers' pedagogical practices and determine how this affects cognitive and non-cognitive learning outcomes of their students, particularly those who are traditionally marginalized in science classrooms. It also will advance knowledge on ways to bridge informal and formal learning environments. To achieve these goals, the project will develop, enact and study a program that involves a scaffolded series of summer professional development sessions focused on outdoor learning and school year follow-up meetings and classroom-based coaching for elementary teachers and informal educators from two high-need districts.Design-based research will be utilized to: 1) foster teacher practices and study how these develop over time, 2) work with teachers to measure student outcomes, and 3) determine what aspects of this formal/informal approach are productive, measures of student engagement and student learning artifacts--will be analyzed. The project will serve as a model for developing partnerships between informal science organizations, educators, and K-12 programs. Revised measures and outcomes of teacher practices and student learning; outdoor-focused lesson plans; cases illustrating how elementary teachers develop and enact NGSS-aligned outdoor lessons; a revised informal-formal theoretical model; and information about dissemination of products including facilitation guidelines and coaching approaches will be developed and disseminated.The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.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.

该项目解决了科学教育中的一个长期挑战，重点是为生活在高度贫困社区和就读于资源不足的小学的学生提供有意义的科学教育机会。这些学生获得高质量科学学习机会的可能性要小得多，也不太可能被鼓励从事（而不仅仅是学习）科学。这个密歇根州立大学的研究项目旨在提高高贫困城市社区小学教师的能力，以制定下一代科学标准（NGSS）-使用户外作为课堂的一部分的科学方法。它建立在并推进了当前科学教育背景下的户外教育工作，要求小学教师让学生使用下一代科学和工程实践来理解现象。该项目的目标是推进小学教师的教学实践，并确定这如何影响学生的认知和非认知学习成果，特别是那些传统上在科学课堂上被边缘化的学生。它还将增进关于如何在非正式和正式学习环境之间架起桥梁的知识。为了实现这些目标，该项目将开发、制定和研究一个计划，其中包括一系列夏季专业发展课程，重点是户外学习和学年后续会议，以及针对两个高需求地区的小学教师和非正式教育工作者的课堂辅导。1）培养教师的做法，并研究这些如何随着时间的推移发展，2）与教师合作，以衡量学生的成果，和3）确定这种正式/非正式的方法的哪些方面是富有成效的，学生参与和学生学习文物的措施-将进行分析。该项目将成为非正式科学组织、教育工作者和K-12计划之间发展伙伴关系的典范。修订措施和教师的做法和学生学习的成果;户外为重点的课程计划;说明小学教师如何开发和制定NGSS对齐户外课程的案例;修订后的非正式正式理论模型;将开发和传播关于产品传播的信息，包括促进指南和辅导方法。旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具，显着提高学前班学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12项目中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为拟议项目提供理论和经验依据的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。