ASSET: Expanding and Sustaining Hands-on Science in K-12 Classrooms using Tetrahymena

项目概要/摘要 该提案建立在ASSET计划（推进中等科学）的现有基础设施之上 通过四膜虫进行教育），以编制新的教材，接触新的学生群体， 确保该计划的可持续性，将其整体职能从位于纽约州伊萨卡的康奈尔大学转移到 从约克到圣路易斯的华盛顿大学。在过去的10年里，ASSET建立了一个非常成功的SEPA 一个程序，教核心生物学内容，小学，初中和高中学生使用安全，容易 生长，行为复杂的单细胞生物（即四膜虫）。四膜虫提供了一个理想的 细胞结构和功能，遗传学，进化，性别，捕食者的基本原理教学平台 互动，细胞信号等，而不会在学生中产生任何冲突的反应， 活的脊椎动物此外，四膜虫提供了一个图形说明有毒的有害影响， 和/或成瘾物质对活细胞的实时监测，为教师提供了一个强大的工具， 打击药物滥用，促进健康行为。ASSET提供独立的实验室试剂盒， 很容易融入现有的科学/健康课程，沿着创新的共同课程模块， 解决科学与社会之间的交叉问题。该计划帮助科学教师教育学生， 农村和市中心学区资源不足的学校，提供强大的现场和远程教师 在教育方面，我们将继续开展发展活动，同时不断对教学效果进行评估。这项新提案将 通过在现有模块中引入新材料，以及新的 这些模块涉及最近确定的SEPA高度关注的方案领域，具体而言， 在P-8教学项目中的数学;让学生接触研究产生的数据;以及，培训学生 信息学、生物信息学和数据科学。联合主任具有丰富的教学经验 生物信息学和帮助学生解释研究驱动的数据，而课程专家在华盛顿 大学的学校伙伴关系研究所有能力评估现有的模块，以确定 利用生物学和学生生成的数据在年级上教授数学概念的机会 适当的水平。最后，从康奈尔大学到华盛顿大学的迁移解决了一个额外的领域， SEPA的计划利益，即使成功的SEPA计划适应新的领域或 人口。通过学校合作研究所，华盛顿大学坚定地致力于 实现K-12教育的公平，为中西部超过10万名学生提供高质量的STEM教学 通过各种教学计划。将ASSET计划纳入其保护伞下， 活动，介绍ASSET给学生的整个新人口，并提供ASSET一个安全的避风港， 继续其长期使命，以加强STEM教育，并最终，STEM劳动力。

Project Summary/Abstract This proposal builds on an existing infrastructure of the ASSET program (Advancing Secondary Science Education through Tetrahymena), to generate new teaching materials, reach new student populations, and ensure sustainability of the program by transitioning its overall functions from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to Washington University in St. Louis. Over the past 10 years, ASSET has built a highly successful SEPA program that teaches core biology content to primary, middle, and high school students using a safe, easily grown, and behaviorally complex single-celled organism (viz. Tetrahymena). Tetrahymena provides an ideal platform for teaching basic principles of cell structure and function, genetics, evolution, sex, prey-predator interaction, cell signaling, etc. without engendering in students any of the conflicting reactions often evoked using live vertebrate animals. Additionally, Tetrahymena offers a graphic illustration of the deleterious effects of toxic and/or addictive substances on living cells in real-time, equipping teachers with a powerful tool with which to fight against substance abuse and promote healthy behavior. ASSET provides stand-alone laboratory kits that are easily integrated into existing science/health curricula, along with innovative co-curricular modules that address the intersection between science and society. The program helps science teachers educate students in under-resourced schools in rural and inner-city school districts, provides robust on-site and distance teacher development activities, while continuously being evaluated for pedagogical effectiveness. This new proposal will greatly expand the program’s current offerings by introducing new materials to existing modules, as well as new modules that address recently identified areas of high programmatic interest to SEPA, specifically, embedding math in P-8 teaching projects; exposing students to research-generated data; and, training students in informatics, bioinformatics, and data science. The Co-Directors have extensive experience teaching bioinformatics and helping students interpret research-driven data, while curriculum specialists at Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership are well-positioned to evaluate existing modules to identify opportunities to teach mathematical concepts using examples from biology and student generated data at grade appropriate levels. Finally, the move from Cornell to Washington University addresses an additional area of programmatic interest for SEPA, namely, adapting successful SEPA programs to new areas or with new populations. Through its Institute for School Partnership, Washington University is strongly committed to achieving equity in K-12 education bringing high-quality STEM teaching to >100,000 students in the Midwest through its various teaching programs. Incorporating the ASSET program under its umbrella expands its current activities, introduces ASSET to whole new populations of students, and provides ASSET a safe haven for continuing its long-term mission to enhance STEM education and, ultimately, the STEM workforce.