GP-IN: Discovering Pathways into the Geosciences through EarthBus Partnership

石溪大学海洋与大气科学学院和地球科学系与其他实体合作，形成了“地球巴士伙伴关系”。该联盟旨在增加学生参与地球科学的多样性。该项目的对象是初高中阶段的地球科学学生和教师，以及社区大学的学生。该项目的目标是在整个项目期间培养2500名高中生、120名地球科学教师和50-60名社区大学生。预期结果是增加对地球科学的兴趣，提高学生在国家规定的教学中的表现，并使教师掌握帮助学生从事地球科学项目学习的策略和技术。这些成果将通过多管齐下的方法实现，包括使用教室、生物巴士车辆作为移动实验室、使用无人机技术和实地研究。此外，pi还将接触长岛的学区，就实地研究项目进行合作。拟议的外展将允许pi测试整合来自不同经济水平的学区对学习的影响。“地球巴士伙伴计划”旨在促进不同学生群体在地球科学领域的参与。要做到这一点，将在有大量未被充分代表的学生的高中招募和指导学生，并使人们认识到，地球科学职业是私营企业、政府服务和学术界实现就业的途径。该项目的对象是初高中阶段的地球科学学生和教师，以及社区大学的学生。目标是：(1)提高学生对地球科学的兴趣，提高学生在国家强制教学中的表现，并利用基于现象的学习作为一种工具，提高对纽约州学习标准和联邦下一代科学标准的理解；(2)为教师提供策略和技巧，帮助学生参与基于项目的学习，包括现实世界的地球科学任务、开放式调查以及工程和设计过程。(3)为高中和社区大学学生提供短期就业和研究机会，使他们将地球科学视为可能的职业道路；(4)促使地球科学教师更好地理解和设计以当前地球科学研究领域和技术为重点的课程；(5)检验不同经济地位的学区整合与协作对学生参与和学习的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Geosciences have partnered with other entities to form an “EarthBus Partnership”. The alliance is designed to increase the diversity of student participation in geosciences. The project targets earth science students and teachers at the middle and high school levels, and community college students. The project goal is to train 2,500 high school students, 120 earth science teachers, and 50-60 community college students over the life of the project. Expected results are to increase interest in geosciences as well as improved student performance on State mandated instruction, and to equip teachers with strategies and techniques for helping students engage in project-based learning in the earth sciences. These outcomes will be achieved through a multi-pronged approach by using classrooms, BioBus vehicles as mobile labs, use of drone technology and field research. Also, the PIs will reach out to school districts on Long Island to collaborate on field research projects. The proposed outreach will allow the PIs to test the impact of integrating school districts from different economic levels in learning. The “EarthBus Partnership” aims to improve participation of diverse groups of students in geoscience fields. This will be done by recruiting and mentoring students at high schools with large populations of underrepresented students, and bringing awareness of geoscience careers as fulfilling employment paths in private industry, government service, and academia. The project targets earth science students and teachers at the middle and high school levels, and community college students. The goals are: (1) to increase interest in the geosciences as well as improve performance on State mandated instruction and use phenomena based learning as a tool to increase understanding of the New York State Learning Standards and federal Next Generation Science Standards; (2) to provide teachers with strategies and techniques to help students engage in project-based learning with real world earth science tasks, open-ended investigations, and the engineering and design processes. (3) to provide short-term employment and research opportunities to high school and community college students, so they see earth science as a possible career path; (4) to engage earth science teachers in better understanding and curriculum design focusing on current research areas and techniques in the geosciences; and (5) to test the efficacy of school-district integration and collaboration across different economic status in student engagement and learning.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.