REAL Field Trip Model for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipses

大约有700万学龄儿童生活在2024年日全食的路径内。这意味着美国的大多数学龄儿童将不会走上总体性的道路。 通过南伊利诺伊大学运行的一个项目将开发和评估远程参与和访问学习（真实的）实地考察模型，该模型将允许任何学校，无论位置，资金或其他障碍，让学生积极参与大规模，本地化的科学活动，如日食。 该模型将为2024年4月8日的日全食进行测试，开发和激活。将在不同人群中衡量学生积极参与科学活动的影响，以确定该模式在克服科学教育机会不平等方面的有效性。 如果真实的Field Trip模型被证明是成功的，它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地参与远程，实时的科学事件。这将增加科学素养和对科学和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真实的的实地考察。学生与真实的实地考察的互动将通过各种在线流媒体机会在日食之前和期间发生。在日食之前，教师主导的教学将由来自不同专家组的日食的预先录制的可下载讨论补充，提供当前和过去日食的科学以及艺术，经济和历史讨论。学生也将有机会创建自己的日食视频，可以提交包含在日食直播。在日食期间，学生，无论是在整体的路径内外，将能够积极参与日食的经验，通过各种流媒体互动，包括一个问答聊天会议，专家将在现场回答学生的问题，在真实的时间。数据将在日食前后收集，以评估真实的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饲料上的真实的实地考察同步播出，扩展到合作学校之外。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。

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.