YouthQuake: Engaging urban students in a computational geology experience to forecast earthquake hazards and manage risks for their community

YouthQuake：让城市学生参与计算地质学体验，以预测地震灾害并管理社区风险

• 批准号: 2241021
• 负责人: Amy Pallant
• 金额: $ 129.82万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: YouthQuake; Engaging; urban; students; computational

This project will contribute to the Earth science education community's understanding of how engaging students with computational activities and prioritizing their knowledge, personal experiences, and community values can broaden the participation of diverse students in geoscience. The YouthQuake project will engage Hispanic and African American middle school students in Stockton, California, in authentic investigations of their community's earthquake hazards, risks, and preparedness using practices of professional geoscientists. Through a partnership among teachers, geoscientists, educational researchers, technology and curriculum developers, and a workforce and diversity specialist, the project will co-design a four-week computational geoscience curriculum. Students will (1) explore their community's likelihood of experiencing a damaging earthquake, (2) determine their community's current policies and resources for earthquake preparedness, (3) investigate what causes earthquakes based on real-world data and computational models of land motion along faults, and (4) create earthquake hazard maps using an intuitive block-based programming environment that imports seismic data and generates map-based visualization outputs. The project plans to work with 10 middle school teachers and approximately 1,120 middle school students. The findings will generate evidence-based teaching strategies that promote students' understanding of earthquake hazards, risk, and mitigation as well as their computational geoscience identities and career awareness. The materials generated through design and development will be made available for free to all future learners, teachers, and researchers beyond the participants outlined in the project.The goal of the YouthQuake project is to engage Hispanic and African American middle school students in Stockton, California, in authentic computational geoscience investigations of earthquake hazards in order to increase their interest in, and identity with, computational geoscience careers. A multidisciplinary partnership among YouthQuake teachers, geoscientists, educational researchers, technology and curriculum developers, and a workforce and diversity specialist will co-design a four-week computational geoscience curriculum. The curriculum activities will be situated in the local community context so students can: 1) explore their neighborhood's likelihood of experiencing a damaging earthquake and related preparedness, 2) investigate GPS data and use computational models of land motion along the faults around their community, and 3) create computational visualizations of earthquake hazard maps. Two cycles of design‐based research will be conducted to develop the YouthQuake curriculum and assessment materials. A mixed-methods research design will be applied to analyze pre-post tests, surveys, embedded assessments, and whole class and student videos. Project research will generate knowledge about curriculum design and teaching strategies that promote students' engagement with computation-mediated science practices as well as computational geoscience identity and career interests. Several equity strategies will be investigated, including: (1) using contextual scaffolds to help students bridge real-world problems with their diverse forms of science knowledge and experiences, (2) engaging students in authentic investigations and practices of career professionals, (3) building on students' cultural assets and strengths derived by belonging to different communities, and (4) empowering students to become epistemic agents in shaping their knowledge and practice. The outcomes of the project will include evidence-based knowledge and an exemplary student technology experience that addresses these equity strategies.This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers. This project is also funded by the Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12), which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of STEM by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools.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.

该项目将有助于地球科学教育界了解如何让学生参与计算活动，并优先考虑他们的知识、个人经验和社区价值观，从而扩大不同学生对地球科学的参与。“青年地震”项目将邀请加州斯托克顿市的西班牙裔和非裔美国中学生，利用专业地球科学家的实践，对他们社区的地震灾害、风险和准备工作进行真实的调查。通过教师、地球科学家、教育研究人员、技术和课程开发人员以及劳动力和多样性专家之间的合作，该项目将共同设计一个为期四周的计算地球科学课程。学生将(1)探索他们社区经历破坏性地震的可能性，(2)确定他们社区当前的地震准备政策和资源，(3)根据真实世界的数据和沿断层的陆地运动的计算模型调查导致地震的原因，以及(4)使用直观的基于块的编程环境创建地震危险地图，该环境可以导入地震数据并生成基于地图的可视化输出。该项目计划与10名中学教师和约1120名中学生合作。研究结果将产生基于证据的教学策略，促进学生对地震危害、风险和减灾的理解，以及他们的计算地球科学身份和职业意识。通过设计和开发产生的材料将免费提供给所有未来的学习者、教师和研究人员，而不是项目中概述的参与者。YouthQuake项目的目标是让加州斯托克顿的西班牙裔和非裔美国中学生参与地震灾害的真实计算地球科学调查，以提高他们对计算地球科学事业的兴趣和认同感。YouthQuake教师、地球科学家、教育研究人员、技术和课程开发人员以及劳动力和多样性专家之间的多学科合作伙伴关系将共同设计为期四周的计算地球科学课程。课程活动将在当地社区背景下进行，这样学生可以：1)探索他们的社区经历破坏性地震的可能性和相关的准备工作；2)调查GPS数据并使用沿他们社区周围断层的陆地运动的计算模型；3)创建地震危险地图的计算可视化。将进行两轮基于设计的研究，以开发青年地震课程和评估材料。混合方法研究设计将应用于分析前后测试、调查、嵌入式评估以及整个班级和学生视频。项目研究将产生有关课程设计和教学策略的知识，促进学生参与以计算为媒介的科学实践，以及计算地球科学的身份和职业兴趣。本课程将研究几种公平策略，包括：(1)使用情境框架帮助学生用他们不同形式的科学知识和经验来解决现实世界的问题；(2)让学生参与职业专业人士的真实调查和实践；(3)建立学生的文化资产和来自不同社区的优势；(4)授权学生成为塑造他们的知识和实践的认知代理人。该项目的成果将包括以证据为基础的知识和解决这些公平战略的模范学生技术经验。该项目由“面向学生和教师的创新技术体验”（ITEST）项目资助，该项目支持有助于提高学生对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）以及信息和通信技术（ICT）职业的知识和兴趣的实践、项目要素、背景和过程的理解。该项目也得到了发现研究preK-12项目（DRK-12）的资助，该项目旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具，显著提高preK-12学生和教师对STEM的学习和教学。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。