GP-IN: SOARING: Sharing Opportunities, Approaches, and Resources in New Geo-teaching

GP-IN：翱翔：分享新地理教学的机会、方法和资源

• 批准号: 2022964
• 负责人: Spencer Clark
• 金额: $ 33.96万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; SOARING; Sharing; Opportunities; Approaches

The Rural Education Center (REC) at Kansas State University and the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas will develop project SOARING: Sharing Opportunities, Approaches, and Resources in New Geo-teaching. The primary goal of Project SOARING is to provide training for secondary (middle and high school) teachers and students on the latest geotechnology for the purpose of increasing students’ desire to pursue geoscience degrees and careers. Specifically, the PIs target geotechnology applications of airborne remote sensing for geological applications. The PIs have partnered with nine school districts in which they have ongoing partnerships and that represent a diverse group of rural schools across central and western Kansas. Most of these schools have significant underrepresented populations, particularly Hispanic/Latinx populations. The KSU REC will be the lead organization, facilitating most of the grant, recruiting the teachers and students to participate in the project activities, providing support to teachers when they are in their classrooms and connecting teachers with the KSU Summer STEM Institute (SSI). The CReSIS at KU will provide content in the geosciences, resources, and instruction regarding the geoscience technology. Underrepresented groups in rural communities face multiple barriers to geoscience careers in comparison to their classmates in urban and suburban schools. With these purposes in mind, the objectives of Project SOARING are to: 1) train rural teachers to engage rural secondary students in geosciences activities and geotechnology; 2) to expose diverse rural secondary students to meaningful geoscience learning experiences; 3) build students’ skills and competency for geoscience degrees and careers; 4) increase the students’ desire to pursue degrees and geoscience-related careers. Rural teachers and their diverse rural students were chosen for this grant because: 1) many rural schools face teacher vacancies in all STEM related fields; 2) rural students typically score lower on STEM assessments; 3) few Earth Science classes are taught in secondary schools, especially in rural schools. The proposal outlines a series of approaches to engage twenty-seven secondary school teachers (9 per year) and potentially over four thousand students with geotechnology and resources. Additionally, the project will seek to recruit participation by female students, Hispanic/Latinx and minority 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.

堪萨斯州立大学的农村教育中心（REC）和堪萨斯大学的冰盖遥感中心（CReSIS）将开发项目SOARING：在新的地理教学中分享机会、方法和资源。SOARING项目的主要目标是为中学（初中和高中）教师和学生提供关于最新地球技术的培训，以提高学生攻读地球科学学位和职业的愿望。具体而言，PI的目标是航空遥感地质应用的地质技术应用。PI已经与九个学区合作，他们在这些学区中有持续的伙伴关系，代表了堪萨斯中西部农村学校的多元化群体。这些学校中的大多数都有明显的代表性不足的人口，特别是西班牙裔/拉丁裔人口。KSU REC将是牵头组织，促进大部分赠款，招募教师和学生参加项目活动，为教师提供支持，当他们在教室里，并连接教师与KSU夏季STEM研究所（SSI）。KU的CReSIS将提供有关地球科学技术的地球科学，资源和教学内容。与城市和郊区学校的同学相比，农村社区代表性不足的群体在从事地球科学职业方面面临多重障碍。考虑到这些目的，SOARING项目的目标是：（1）培训农村教师，使农村中学生参与地球科学活动和地球技术;（2）使不同的农村中学生获得有意义的地球科学学习经验;（3）培养学生获得地球科学学位和职业的技能和能力;（4）增强学生攻读学位和从事地球科学相关职业的愿望。农村教师和他们多样化的农村学生被选中获得这笔赠款，因为：1）许多农村学校在所有STEM相关领域都面临教师空缺; 2）农村学生通常在STEM评估中得分较低; 3）中学，特别是农村学校，很少教授地球科学课程。该提案概述了一系列方法，使27名中学教师（每年9名）和可能超过4000名学生参与地球技术和资源。此外，该项目将寻求招募女学生，西班牙裔/拉丁裔和少数民族学生的参与。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。