GP-IMPACT: ICE-AGE: Integrating Continuous Experiential Activities for Geoscience Education

GP-IMPACT：ICE-AGE：整合地球科学教育的持续体验活动

• 批准号: 1911565
• 负责人: Andrew Steen
• 金额: $ 39.04万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1911565&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; IMPACT; ICE; AGE; Integrating

Part 1Recruiting undergraduate students to geoscience majors inTennessee is severely hampered by the fact that most Tennessee high schools do not offera geoscience class. As a result, students tend to graduate high school and enter collegewith no real idea that geoscience is a potential major. Project ICE-AGE will engage withhigh school students by exposing them to the geosciences in the context of core scienceclasses. First, a series of "Lessons-In-A-Box" will be designed to meet stateeducational standards in the core sciences of biology, chemistry, and physics, but drawnexplicitly from interdisciplinary geoscience fields. These lessons will be tested withvisiting school groups at a campus museum, introduced to area teachers throughworkshops and educational conferences, and circulated by the Knox County PublicLibrary System. Second, the PIs will collaborate with three groups of high school students,including two that consist primarily of underrepresented minorities, on authenticscientific research. This work expands a project with one high school that has resulted inparticipation of students in writing a peer-reviewed paper, and four student-ledpresentations at regional and national scientific meetings. Finally, PIs will create two newclasses for future teachers in culturally responsive geoscience education and researchmethods in science. Taken together, PIs expect to introduce area high school students andfuture teachers to the geosciences in such a way as to enhance their required learningobjectives and expose them to the potential for further study and employment in geologyand related fields.Part 2The project proposes to develop and deploy an integrated set ofprograms that will engage high school students along a spectrum from one-day lessonsthat will contact large numbers of students, to intensive, year-long research projects thatwill involve a smaller number of students. PIs will also train pre-service STEM teachersin the use of active learning techniques using geological concepts. PIs will specificallywork with high school populations that are enriched in underrepresented minorities, inorder to address the low diversity of current geoscience students and practitioners. PIswill actively promote these programs to teachers around the country via teachers'workshops, STEM education conferences, and professional geoscience conferences.Finally, this project will produce scholarship in the fields of education and geoscience.PIs expect that these efforts will expose ~165 high school students to authenticgeoscience research and at least 1000 students to Lessons-In-A-Box. The project will also help totrain ~90 pre-service teachers, 6 graduate students, and 1 undergraduate in teachinggeoscience and generating culturally responsive lesson plans. This project will also leadto closer collaboration between faculty in the University of Tennessee's Departments ofTheory and Practice in Teacher Education, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. In the longterm these collaborations will help EPS faculty to improve teaching techniques forundergraduates and to train more pre-service teachers in geoscience.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.

在田纳西州，招收地球科学专业的本科生受到了严重的阻碍，因为大多数田纳西州的高中不提供地球科学课程。因此，学生们往往在高中毕业进入大学时，并没有真实的想法，即地球科学是一个潜在的专业。项目ICE-AGE将通过在核心科学课程中让高中生接触地球科学来吸引他们。首先，将设计一系列的“盒子里的课程”，以满足生物学、化学和物理学等核心科学的国家教育标准，但明确地借鉴跨学科的地球科学领域。这些课程将在校园博物馆与来访的学校团体一起进行测试，通过研讨会和教育会议介绍给地区教师，并由诺克斯县公共图书馆系统分发。第二，PI将与三组高中生合作，其中两组主要由代表性不足的少数民族组成，进行真实的科学研究。这项工作扩展了与一所高中的项目，该项目使学生参与撰写了一篇同行评审论文，并在地区和国家科学会议上进行了四次由学生主导的演讲。最后，PI将为未来的教师创建两个新的课程，分别是对文化敏感的地球科学教育和科学研究方法。综合起来，PI期望以这样一种方式向地区高中学生和未来的教师介绍地球科学，以提高他们所需的学习目标，并使他们了解地质学和相关领域进一步学习和就业的潜力。第二部分该项目建议开发和部署一套综合的计划，使高中学生沿着一个范围，从一天的课程，将接触大量的学生，到密集的，为期一年的研究项目，这将涉及较少的学生。PI还将培训职前STEM教师使用地质概念的主动学习技术。PI将专门与少数族裔代表性不足的高中人群合作，以解决当前地球科学学生和从业者多样性低的问题。PI将通过教师研讨会、STEM教育会议和专业地球科学会议向全国各地的教师积极推广这些项目。最后，该项目将产生教育和地球科学领域的奖学金。PI预计，这些努力将使约165名高中生接触到真实的地球科学研究，至少1000名学生接触到Lessons-In-A-Box。该项目还将帮助培训约90名职前教师、6名研究生和1名本科生教授地球科学，并制定文化上敏感的课程计划。该项目还将导致田纳西大学教师教育理论与实践系以及地球与行星科学系的教师之间更密切的合作。从长远来看，这些合作将有助于EPS教师提高本科生的教学技术，并培训更多的地球科学职前教师。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。