The Lowell Observatory Native American Astronomy Outreach Program: Completing the Kayenta Unified School District collaboration

洛厄尔天文台美洲原住民天文学外展计划：完成凯恩塔联合学区合作

• 批准号: 2025202
• 负责人: Deidre Hunter
• 金额: $ 23万
• 依托单位: Lowell Observatory
• 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: 2020-09-15 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lowell; Observatory; Native; American; Astronomy

The project will fund the final year of a partnership in collaboration with 4th-8th grade teachers in the Kayenta Unified School District (KUSD), located in the Navajo Nation of northern Arizona, as part of the Lowell Observatory Navajo-Hopi Astronomy Outreach Program (NAAOP)in the 2020-2021 school year. Teachers are paired with an astronomer/educator from Lowell Observatory who regularly visits the observatory. Star parties are held in partnership with tribal educators who present traditional knowledge, and students visit Lowell Observatory as a culminating experience. In the spring of 2021, the NAAOP and the veteran KUSD teachers will hold a Navajo Nation-wide teacher workshop in order to share the curriculum and perspectives on cultural connections with others.The project will develop, test, and revise an astronomy-centered curriculum unit for each of the 4th-8th grade levels. The curriculum uses Project Based Learning, and is aligned to Arizona, Common Core, Next Generation Science, and Navajo tribal standards. Students are kept together as a cohort over the course of the three-year collaboration, and their interest in STEM and STEM careers is assessed annually through student surveys. Results will be tallied at the end of the project and shared with stakeholders and the education and outreach communities through journals. The results of the teacher workshop will also be shared with the teaching and outreach communities, and the curriculum will be put online in a teacher-friendly package that can be downloaded.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.

该项目将资助与位于亚利桑那州北部纳瓦霍族保留地的凯恩塔统一学区 (KUSD) 的 4-8 年级教师合作的最后一年的合作伙伴关系，作为 2020-2021 学年洛厄尔天文台纳瓦霍-霍皮天文学外展计划 (NAAOP) 的一部分。教师与来自洛厄尔天文台的天文学家/教育家配对，他定期访问天文台。与传授传统知识的部落教育工作者合作举办明星派对，学生们参观洛厄尔天文台作为终极体验。 2021 年春季，NAAOP 和经验丰富的 KUSD 教师将举办纳瓦霍全国范围内的教师研讨会，以便与他人分享课程和文化联系的观点。该项目将为 4 至 8 年级的每个年级开发、测试和修订以天文学为中心的课程单元。该课程采用基于项目的学习，并符合亚利桑那州、共同核心、下一代科学和纳瓦霍部落标准。在三年的合作过程中，学生们作为一个群体聚集在一起，每年都会通过学生调查评估他们对 STEM 和 STEM 职业的兴趣。结果将在项目结束时进行统计，并通过期刊与利益相关者以及教育和外展社区分享。教师讲习班的结果也将与教学和外展社区分享，课程将以适合教师下载的形式放在网上。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Developing STEM Curriculum Units to Engage 4th-8th Grade Navajo Students as Part of In-Class Outreach

作为课堂外展的一部分，开发 STEM 课程单元以吸引 4 至 8 年级纳瓦霍学生

• DOI: 10.15695/jstem/v6i1.03
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Journal of STEM Outreach
• 作者: Hunter, D.A.;Castagno, A.E.;Gonzales, T.;Tallsalt, V.;Little, A.;Brown, T.;Pipe, M.;Greyeyes, J.;Marsh, E.;Smith, J.
• 通讯作者: Smith, J.