Environmental Neuroscience for All: A participatory science program and platform for students, teachers, scientists, and communities

全民环境神经科学：面向学生、教师、科学家和社区的参与性科学计划和平台

• 批准号: 10665300
• 负责人: Suzanne Dikker
• 金额: $ 26.99万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-07 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10665300
• 关键词: Affect; Behavior; Behavioral Sciences; Brain; Case Study; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Consumption; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Development; Distance Learning; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Environmental Science; Ethics; Familiarity; Feedback; Foundations; Funding; Generations; Geography; Health Policy; High School Student; Human; Hybrids; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Mediation; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Molecular Biology; Multimedia; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Participant; Pathway interactions; Peer Group; Peer Review; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Play; Public Health; Research; Research Design; Research Methodology; Research Project Grants; Role; Rural; STEM career; STEM field; Schools; Science; Scientist; Students; Technology; Teenagers; Time; Training; Translating; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; brain health; citizen science; cognitive neuroscience; community organizations; community science; data communication; design; experience; flexibility; high school; ideation; improved; innovation; literacy; meetings; next generation; open data; peer; programs; research study; role model; social; social culture; social neuroscience; socioeconomics; support tools; teacher; tool; virtual; web platform

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Environmental Neuroscience for All uses a combination of online and in-person tools and an open science approach to support high school students in carrying out their own original research projects focusing on environmental neuroscience, a fast-growing field of research at the intersection of behavioral science and more ‘traditional’ STEM fields that recognizes the critical role of human brain and behavioral science in better understanding the impact that the environment has on humans, and the impact that humans have on our environment. How is our brain health and wellbeing affected by our environment? Can we improve how we interact with our environment by deepening our understanding of how the human brain is wired? Together with scientists and their teachers and communities, students will explore these and other questions about the multi- directional relationship between the human brain, human behavior, and our environment. We will build on the technology, content, and network of schools and community partners created through our SEPA project BrainWaves and our community science platform MindHive. We will develop curriculum materials and tools grounded in open science practices, which represent a shift away from narrower, more traditional views of the “scientific method,” toward a collaborative and iterative approach to science inquiry. We will also build out an online platform with tools that support collaborative study ideation, peer feedback, data collection and engagement, and communication. Students will learn how to formulate research questions and translate them into testable hypotheses; design, review, and revise environmental neuroscience studies; and collect, analyze, and communicate research findings. Together, the curriculum materials and web-based platform will support authentic community science research spearheaded by teens in a network of environmental neuroscientists, community organizations, and student peers - both locally and nationwide, and both in-person and online. In sum, Environmental Neuroscience for All will connect geographically and socio-economically diverse learners and communities; and in doing so create pathways toward more transparent, accessible, and inclusive environmental science. As such, the project will not only help further integrate human brain and behavioral science, an increasingly relevant STEM field, into preK-12 science curricula, but will also educate a new generation of scientists in open science principles, building the foundations for a STEM workforce that approaches environmental challenges as a collective, interdisciplinary effort.

项目概要/摘要 全民环境神经科学结合了在线和现场工具以及开放科学 支持高中生开展自己的原创研究项目的方法，重点是 环境神经科学，行为科学和其他科学交叉领域的一个快速发展的研究领域 “传统”STEM 领域认识到人脑和行为科学在更好地发挥关键作用 了解环境对人类的影响，以及人类对我们的影响 环境。我们的大脑健康和福祉如何受到环境的影响？我们能否改进我们的方式 通过加深我们对人脑如何连接的理解来与我们的环境互动？连同 科学家及其老师和社区，学生将探索有关多元的这些问题和其他问题 人脑、人类行为和环境之间的方向关系。我们将在此基础上 通过我们的 SEPA 项目创建的技术、内容以及学校和社区合作伙伴网络 BrainWaves 和我们的社区科学平台 MindHive。我们将开发课程材料和工具 植根于开放科学实践，代表着对狭隘、更传统的科学观点的转变 “科学方法”，面向科学探究的协作和迭代方法。我们还将打造一个 在线平台，提供支持协作研究构思、同行反馈、数据收集和 参与和沟通。学生将学习如何提出研究问题并翻译它们 转化为可检验的假设；设计、审查和修改环境神经科学研究；并收集、分析、 并交流研究结果。课程材料和网络平台将共同支持 由环境神经科学家网络中的青少年带头进行的真实社区科学研究， 社区组织和学生同伴——无论是本地的还是全国的，无论是面对面的还是在线的。在 总而言之，全民环境神经科学将连接地理和社会经济多样化的学习者 和社区；并在此过程中创造更加透明、可及和包容的途径 环境科学。因此，该项目不仅有助于进一步整合人脑和行为 科学这一日益重要的 STEM 领域已被纳入 PreK-12 科学课程中，同时也将教育新的学生 培养遵循开放科学原则的科学家，为 STEM 劳动力奠定基础 将环境挑战作为一项集体、跨学科的努力来应对。