ATMOSPHERIC AND MARINE-BASED INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING

描述（摘自申请人的摘要） 迈阿密-戴德县拥有超过210万人口。 种族多样性 人口分布广泛，52%是西班牙裔，34%是非洲裔， 13%为白色，1%为美洲印第安人/亚洲人/其他。 与任何社区一样， 复杂性，有重大的环境健康问题的关注， 社区和政府。 迈阿密-戴德县公立学校系统 全国第四大区，拥有35万多名学生， 其中93 000多人在9-12年级。 非常需要 在公立高中系统内，让学生参与研究 科学家和社区成员在一个跨学科的方法， 了解当地的环境健康科学问题。 拟议的AMBIENT项目（大气和海洋跨学科 环境卫生科学培训）是一种系统的方法， 健康科学教育。 围绕四个环境主题， 空气、水、土壤和食物，基于健康科学问题的学习方法 将由受过培训的教师向不同种族的人口提供， 迈阿密戴德县的高中生 教师们将共同努力， 通过实践提高对环境和道德问题的理解 与佛罗里达迈阿密大学的研究科学家举行的夏季研讨会 国际大学和县卫生局。 最佳做法 从现有的环境课程材料将被组装使用， 训练 该项目的一个重要重点将是提供团队 将跨学科活动纳入教学战略 在高中有超过35名学生的大班。 该项目是仿照三个非常成功的环境教师 培训模式，地球仪，EQUIPAR和SECME暑期学院，并提请 最好从每个。 课堂活动和评估工具将 由中心教育技术在旋转，耶稣会 大学，变成一个基于问题的学习网站类似于美国宇航局 “探索环境”系列。 布朗大学教育联盟 将提供项目的形成性和总结性评估。 该项目解决了“健康人”优先事项8.2所界定的需求 2000年：教育和基于社区的方案，这将增加高 学校完成率达到90%，特别是西班牙裔， 美国黑人学生

DESCRIPTION (Taken from the Applicant's Abstract) Miami-Dade County is home to more than 2.1 million people. Ethnic diversity is extensive, with a population that is 52% Hispanic, 34% African American, 13% White, and 1% American Indian/Asian/Other. As with any community of this complexity, there are significant environmental health issues of concern to the community and government. The Miami-Dade County Public School System is the fourth largest district in the country with more than 350,000 students, more than 93,000 of which are in grades 9-12. There is significant need within the public high school system to involve students with research scientists and members of the community in an interdisciplinary approach to learning about local environmental health science issues. The proposed AMBIENT Project (Atmospheric and Marine-Based Interdisciplinary ENvironmental Health Science Training) is a systemic approach to environmental health science education. Focused around the four environmental themes of air, water, soil and food, a health-science problem-based learning approach will be delivered by trained teachers to the ethnically diverse population of high school students in Miami-Dade County. The teachers will work together to enhance understanding of environmental and ethical issues through a hands-on summer workshop with research scientists from the University of Miami, Florida International University, and County Department of Health. Best practices from existing environmental curriculum materials will be assembled for use in the training. An important emphasis of the project will be to provide team teaching strategies for incorporating interdisciplinary activities into the large classes of more than 35 students at the high schools. The project is modeled after three highly successful environmental teacher training models, GLOBE, INSTAR, and the SECME Summer Institutes, and draws the best from each. Classroom activities and assessment tools will be incorporated by the Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling, Jesuit University, into a problem-based learning web site similar to the NASA "Exploring the Environment" series. The Brown University Education Alliance will provide formative and summative assessment of the project. This project addresses the need defined by Priority 8.2 of Healthy People 2000: Educational and Community-Based Programs, which is to increase high school completion rates to 90 percent, especially with regard to Hispanic and Black American students.