Natural Disasters & HealthNDH will inspire and inform middle school students about life-threatening health effects of natural disasters. Students role-play scientists in 90-min live simulations.

自然灾害与健康(NDH)将激励和告知中学生关于 自然灾害对生命健康的影响，作为一种激发他们对 科学。NDH的目标是提高学生对人体系统的科学素养 利用自然灾害；培养学生的批判性思维、协作和交流 识别和有效应对问题的技能；促进社区参与、职业生涯 认识和参与者的多样性；并对SIM进行强有力的评估并探索 它的社会科学影响。在过去的几年里，数百万美国人经历了 飓风、暴风雪、洪水、干旱、地震，甚至火山喷发。天然 灾难已经变得很常见，而且是个人的--孩子们可以把他们的生活经历带到 课堂讨论。NDH将在90分钟的现场视频中提供灾难健康教育 包含游戏化的会议式角色扮演模拟。学生充当医生 应急者利用身体系统知识做出关于紧急情况的关键决策 治疗。他们对幸存者进行分类，诊断受伤情况，并确定治疗方案。跟随 在sim上，教师可以邀请当地公共卫生或应急管理官员与 他们关于该地区历史上和未来可能发生的自然灾害的课程。一个教师小组， 在整个项目过程中，将定期召开会议，以确保 这符合中学教师和学生的需求。所有NDH活动将是 在专业发展的支持下，NDH资源中心将包括关于 身体系统和灾难，将职业信息整合到SIM和所有课程中。一个 稳健的随机区组设计将测试SIM的有效性。NDH研究 组件探讨了两个问题：首先，我们研究了如何增加对社会科学的重视 问题影响中学生对科学的态度及其相关性和关系 回到平凡的生活。第二个问题调查了NDH对中间人的行为影响 学生和他们的家庭在他们参加了 这个项目。 好了！

Natural Disasters & Health (NDH) will inspire and inform middle school students about the life-threatening health effects of natural disasters as a way to stimulate their interest in science. The goals of NDH are to improve student scientific literacy of human body systems using natural disasters; develop student critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills to identify and effectively respond to problems; promote community involvement, career awareness, and diversity of participants; and perform a robust evaluation of the sim and explore its socioscientific impact. Over the last few years, millions of Americans have lived through hurricanes, blizzards, floods, droughts, earthquakes and even volcanic eruptions. Natural disasters have become common and personal – kids can bring their lived experiences to classroom discussions. NDH will provide disaster health education in live, 90-minute video conferenced, role-playing simulations incorporating gamification. Students act as medical responders using body systems knowledge to make critical decisions about emergency treatment. They triage survivors, diagnosis injuries and determine treatment options. Following the sim, a teacher can invite local public health or emergency management officials to talk to their classes about historic and likely future natural disasters at that location. A Teachers Panel, as used to develop this proposal, will meet periodically throughout the project to ensure that NDH matches the needs of middle school teachers and students. All NDH activities will be supported by professional development, and a NDH Resource Center will include curricula on body systems and disasters, with career information integrated into the sim and all curricula. A robust randomized block design will test the effectiveness of the sim. The NDH research component explores two questions: first, we examine how adding an emphasis on socioscientific issues influences middle school students' attitudes about science, its relevance, and its relation to ordinary life. The second question investigates the behavioral impacts of NDH on middle school students and their families at various intervals in the year following their participation in the program. !