Tomorrow's Science Today: Preparing for the Next Pandemic

项目摘要 这个项目-明天的科学今天：为下一次大流行做准备-将创造一个专业的 高中科学教师的发展经验，重点是传染病和 分子技术被用来控制它们。该项目包括两个不同的阶段。 在第一，我们将创建各种动手教学材料-由泡沫为基础的 蛋白质的示意图模型和精确的3D打印模型-将生命的分子故事 科学的过程。我们将使用一个框架，强调 过去建立的分子生物学（昨天的科学）为惊人的 已被用于应对当前SARS-Cov-2大流行的技术（今日科学）， 也为未来更强大的防御奠定了基础（明天的科学）。 在这个项目的第二阶段，我们将创造一个专业的学习经验， 项目的教学材料将介绍给高中科学教师。该项目的目标 （i）增加教师有关传染病分子机制的知识 疾病和（ii）为教师树立以学生为中心的积极学习教学法， 问题多于答案该项目的特点是一个正式的教师赋权计划，其中一个小 一批资深教师接受培训，担任新教师的导师。 高中生物和化学教师将被招募到这个项目通过介绍和 在州、地区和国家科学教育工作者会议上展出。制定了一项计划， 接受来自少数民族学生人数众多的学校的教师。和 最后，项目指导材料的广泛传播将通过我们的 与其他科学外展组织建立了合作伙伴关系，这些组织的项目侧重于URM 密尔沃基、芝加哥、内布拉斯加州和南达科他州农村的学生。

Project Summary This project – Tomorrow’s Science Today: preparing for the next pandemic – will create a professional development experience for high school science teachers focused on infectious diseases and the molecular technologies that are being used to control them. The project consists of two distinct phases. In the first, we will create a variety of hands-on instructional materials – composed of both foam-based schematic models and accurate 3D-printed models of proteins – to bring to life molecular stories of the process of science. We will use a framework that emphasizes how the foundational concepts of molecular biology established in the past (Yesterday’s Science) provides the basis for the amazing technology that has been brought to bear on the current SARS-Cov-2 pandemic (Today’s Science) and also lays the ground-work for even more powerful defenses in the future (Tomorrow’s Science). In the second phase of this project, we will create a professional learning experience in which the project’s instructional materials will be introduced to high school science teachers. The project’s goals are (i) to increase the teachers’ content knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases and (ii) to model for the teachers a student-centered active learning pedagogy that values questions over answers. The project features a formal teacher empowerment program in which a small group of veteran teachers are trained to serve as mentors for teachers who are new to the project. High school biology and chemistry teachers will be recruited into this project via presentations and exhibits at state, regional and national meetings of science educators. A plan is in place to proactively accept teachers from schools with a significant population of underserved minority students. And finally, the broad dissemination of the project’s instructional materials will be achieved through our established partnerships with other science outreach organizations whose programs focus on URM students in urban Milwaukee, Chicago and rural Nebraska and South Dakota.