REAL Field Trip Model for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipses

大约700万学龄儿童生活在2024年日全食的全食路径内。这意味着美国大多数学龄儿童不会经历日全食。南伊利诺伊大学的一个项目将开发和评估远程参与和学习（REAL）实地考察模式，该模式将允许任何学校，无论地理位置、资金或其他障碍，都能让学生积极参与大规模的、本地化的科学活动，如日食。该模型将在2024年4月8日的日全食前进行测试、开发和激活。这种积极的科学参与对学生的影响将在不同的人群中进行测量，以确定该模型在克服科学教育机会不平等方面的有效性。REAL Field Trip模式，如果被证明是成功的，可以用于未来大量的科学事件和现象，允许来自全国各地的学生互动参与远程、实时的科学事件。这将提高科学素养，并增加对科学和STEM职业感兴趣的儿童人数。位于2024年日食全食路径上的三所中学和位于全食路径外的三所中学将参加REAL Field Trip。学生将通过各种在线流媒体机会在日食之前和日食期间与真正的实地考察进行互动。在日食之前，教师指导的教学将辅以预先录制的可下载的来自不同专家小组的关于日食的讨论，提供关于当前和过去的日食的科学、艺术、经济和历史的讨论。学生们也将有机会制作自己的日食视频，这些视频可以提交到日食直播中。在日食期间，无论是在全食路径内还是在全食路径外的学生，都将能够通过各种流媒体互动积极参与日食体验，包括问答聊天会话，专家将实时回答学生的问题。数据将在日食前后收集，以评估REAL实地考察模型的有效性。此外，2024年4月的日全食体验将通过专业制作的电视直播与国家PBS的REAL实地考察同时播出，扩展到合作学校之外。这种广播形式将会吸引更多的全国观众。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。

Approximately 7 million school-age children live inside the path of totality for the 2024total solar eclipse. This means that most school-age children in the United States will not be in the path of totality. A project run through Southern Illinois University will develop and assess a Remote Engagement and Access to Learning (REAL) Field Trip model that would allow any school, regardless of location, funding, or other barriers, to have its students actively participate in large-scale, localized scientific events such as a solar eclipse. The model will be tested, developed and activated for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The impact of this type of active scientific participation for students will be measured amongst various populations to determine the model’s effectiveness in overcoming inequalities in science-education opportunities. The REAL Field Trip model, if shown to be successful, could be used for a vast array of future scientific events and phenomena, allowing school kids from across the country to interactively participate in distant, real-time, scientific events. This will increase science literacy and numbers of children who become interested in science and STEM careers. Three middle schools located in the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse and three middle schools located out of the path of totality will participate in the REAL Field Trip. Student interaction with the REAL Field Trip will occur both prior to and during the eclipse via various online streaming opportunities. Prior to the eclipse, teacher-led instruction will be supplemented by pre-recorded downloadable discussions of eclipses from a diverse group of experts, providing scientific as well as artistic, economic, and historical discussions of current and past eclipses. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own eclipse videos that can be submitted for inclusion in the live eclipse broadcast. During the eclipse, students, both in and out of the path of totality, will be able to actively participate in the eclipse experience through a variety of streaming interactions including a question and answer chat session, where experts will be on hand to answer student questions in real time. Data will be collected prior to and after the eclipse to assess the efficacy of the REAL Field Trip model. In addition, the April 2024 total solar eclipse experience will be expanded beyond the partner schools through a professionally produced live TV broadcast simulcast with the REAL Field Trip over the national PBS feed. This broadcast format will reach a much larger national audience.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.