Science Take-Out Kits for Environmental Health Education

环境健康教育科普外卖套件

• 批准号: 9899886
• 负责人: Susan Holt
• 金额: $ 12.26万
• 依托单位: SCIENCE TAKE-OUT, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9899886
• 关键词: Affect; Biological Process; Biology; Businesses; Cessation of life; Collaborations; Communities; Community Outreach; Disease; Educational Curriculum; Educational Materials; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Risk Factor; General Population; Hand; Hand functions; Health; Health education; High School Student; Individual; Lead; Learning; Life; Link; Measures; Medical; North Carolina; Phase; Pre-Post Tests; Predisposition; Prevention; Process; Public Health; Science; Secondary Schools; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Students; Testing; Texas; Universities; base; body system; environmental agent; health literacy; high school; innovation; member; outreach; peer; peer support; programs; public health relevance; recruit; science teacher; skills; teacher; teacher community

ABSTRACT Nearly 25 percent of death and disease, worldwide, is linked to environmental factors (WHO, 2006); therefore, it is critical that the general public has a basic understanding of how the environment affects their health and how they might protect themselves against environmental exposures. Unfortunately, environmental health is typically covered minimally, if at all, in secondary school classrooms (Martina, 2009) and there are few currently available hands-on activities that engage the general public in learning about important concepts related to environmental health. This proposed Phase II STTR project will involve a partnership between:  Science Take-Out, a small business that creates and manufactures “lab in a bag” science kits.  The Community Outreach and Engagement Core of University of Rochester's Environmental Health Sciences Center, in collaboration with community outreach professionals from the University of North Carolina, the University of Texas Medical Branch, and West Harlem Environmental Action. This collaborative project will expand on our successful STTR Phase I project in which we developed and pilot tested eight hands-on Science Take-Out kits on topics in environmental health science (EHS) that can easily be introduced into science teachers' existing curricula. These EHS kits combine the “lab in a bag” features common to all Science Take-Out kits with activities that engage students in learning important concepts in EHS such as: effects of environmental agents on body systems and biological processes; changes in susceptibility to environmental agents at different life stages, and; prevention of environmental exposures. In this Phase II STTR project we plan to: 1. Develop valid/reliable pre/post tests for each EHS kit. We will then use the pre/post tests to determine the impact of the kits on high school students' understanding of EHS concepts. 2. Modify the EHS kits to create “Community EHS” kits for use in community outreach settings. 3. Develop and evaluate workshop materials that will be used by “peer-presenters” to increase teacher and community outreach capacity for using hands-on EHS educational materials. This project is significant because it will build the capacity of teachers and community educators to use hands- on activities to increase the environmental health literacy of students and diverse informal learners. This proposed project is innovative because: (1) The Science Take-Out kit activities use science process skills to increase learners' understanding of EHS concepts; (2) The fully assembled kits make hand-on EHS activities easy, economical and convenient for educators to implement, and; (3) We will specifically tailor our “Community EHS” kits to make them appropriate for use by community outreach groups, thus increasing the capacity to engage the general public in hands-on EHS learning.

摘要 全世界近25%的死亡和疾病与环境因素有关（世卫组织，2006年）;因此， 公众对环境如何影响他们的健康有基本的了解至关重要， 他们如何保护自己免受环境暴露。不幸的是，环境健康 在中学课堂上，如果有的话，通常覆盖率最低（Martina，2009年）， 现有的让公众参与学习重要概念的实践活动 与环境健康有关。 拟议的第二阶段STTR项目将涉及以下各方的合作： “科学外卖”是一家小型企业，生产和制造“袋中实验室”科学工具包。 罗切斯特大学环境卫生学院的社区外展和参与核心 科学中心，与北方大学的社区外展专业人员合作 卡罗莱纳、德克萨斯大学医学分支和西哈莱姆环境行动。 这个合作项目将扩大我们成功的STTR第一阶段项目，我们开发和试点 测试了八个关于环境健康科学（EHS）主题的动手科学外卖工具包， 将其纳入科学教师的现有课程。这些EHS套件结合了联合收割机的“实验室在一个袋子”的特点 所有科学外卖工具包都有共同点，其中包括让学生学习重要概念的活动， EHS如：环境因素对身体系统和生物过程的影响; 在不同生命阶段对环境因素的敏感性，以及预防环境暴露。 在第二阶段STTR项目中，我们计划： 1.为每个EHS套件开发有效/可靠的前/后测试。然后，我们将使用前/后测试来确定 教材对高中生理解EHS概念的影响。 2.修改EHS工具包，以创建用于社区外展设置的“社区EHS”工具包。 3.开发和评估研讨会材料，供“同行演示者”使用，以提高教师 和社区推广能力，使用实践EHS教育材料。 该项目意义重大，因为它将培养教师和社区教育工作者的能力， 开展活动，提高学生和各种非正式学习者的环境卫生知识。 本计画的创新之处在于：（1）科学外卖活动运用科学过程技巧 增加学员对EHS概念的理解;（2）完整的组装套件使动手EHS 活动容易，经济和方便教育工作者实施;（3）我们将特别调整我们的 “社区EHS”工具包，使其适合社区外展团体使用，从而增加 让公众参与EHS实践学习的能力。