GP:IN Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC (GET OUT in NC)

位于查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学环境研究所将与北卡罗来纳州自然科学博物馆一起在北卡罗来纳州实施地球科学户外教学。该项目的目标是通过为中学科学教师和青年实施关于社区应对气候变化能力的教育计划，支持多样化的未来劳动力和STEM素养的公众。在三年多的时间里，北卡罗来纳州的GET OUT将让北卡罗来纳州东部的40名中学教师在州立公园学习经验，培养他们将当前气候变化影响研究纳入教学的能力。该项目还将直接吸引50-60名高中年龄的青年参与北卡罗来纳州自然科学博物馆格林维尔的规划，向不同的青年介绍地球科学教育和职业。北卡罗来纳州州立公园和马丁县学校也在这个项目上进行合作。北卡罗来纳州地球科学户外教学的总体目标是支持多元化的未来劳动力和STEM素养的公众，特别是通过吸引北卡罗来纳州东部的多元化青年参与地球科学研究，教育和职业道路。该项目有三个主要目标：（1）加强中学科学教师的地球科学知识和教学方法，使他们能够让学生积极参与地球科学学习;（2）通过关于地方/区域气候变化影响和解决办法的非正式学习，增加高中适龄青年对地球科学研究和职业的知识和兴趣;以及（3）通过支持来自当地科学中心和州立公园、当地学区和大学地球科学系的教育工作者、研究人员和自然资源专业人员之间的合作，培养地球科学学习生态系统。通过将我们社会面临的两个关键问题交织在一起，即需要社区对气候变化影响的适应能力和地球科学缺乏多样性，该项目为劳动力多样化奠定了基础，同时开发了可以广泛复制的本地解决方案。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。

The Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina (NC) at Chapel Hill, together with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, will implement Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC (GET OUT in NC). The goal of this project is to support a diverse future workforce and STEM-literate public, by implementing educational programming on community resilience to climate change for secondary science teachers and youth. Over three years, GET OUT in NC will engage 40 secondary teachers from eastern NC in learning experiences in state parks, building their capability to incorporate current research on climate change impacts into their teaching. The project also will directly engage 50-60 high school aged youth in programming at the Greenville, NC location of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, introducing diverse youth to education and careers in geosciences. NC State Parks and Martin County Schools also are collaborating on this project.The overarching goal of Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC (GET OUT in NC) is to support a diverse future workforce and STEM-literate public, specifically by engaging diverse youth in eastern North Carolina in geoscience research, education, and career pathways. The project has three primary objectives: (1) enhance secondary science teachers’ geoscience knowledge and pedagogy to enable them to engage their students in active geoscience learning; (2) increase knowledge of and interest in geosciences research and careers among high school aged youth through informal learning about local/regional climate change impacts and solutions; and (3) cultivate a geoscience learning ecosystem by supporting collaboration among educators, researchers, and natural resource professionals from local science centers and state parks, local school districts, and university geoscience departments. By interweaving two critical issues facing our society, namely the need for community resilience to climate change impacts and lack of diversity in geosciences, this project lays a foundation for diversifying the workforce while developing local solutions that can replicated broadly.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.