Teachers' Domain: Environmental Health

教师领域：环境健康

• 批准号: 7808580
• 负责人: Theodore Sicker
• 金额: $ 49.9万
• 依托单位: WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-21 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7808580
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Age; American; Area; Boston; Charge; Clip; Collection; Communities; Companions; Complement; Country; Development; Digital Libraries; Discipline; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Exercise; Feedback; Focus Groups; Foundations; Goals; Health; Institutes; Institution; Internet; Knowledge; Learning; Marketing; Massachusetts; Mathematics; Medical center; Multimedia; Nature; Principal Investigator; Production; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Research; Resources; Schools; Science; Scientist; Series; Services; Site; Site Visit; Students; Technology; Television; Time; Training Programs; Training Support; Visit; base; design; empowered; essays; experience; kindergarten; programs; research and development; response; teacher; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application addresses broad Challenge Area (12) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM) and specific Challenge Topic 12-ES-101: Materials Development for Environmental Health curriculum. The WGBH Educational Foundation proposes to produce, assemble, and disseminate a multimedia collection of purpose-built resources to assist K-12 teachers and students to engage deeply with issues of environmental health. Developed for featured posting on WGBH's Teachers' Domain digital library site (www.teachersdomain.org), these videos and supporting materials will be drawn primarily from such PBS television programs as NOVA, Frontline, Nature, and Arthur. They will be customized and contextualized for age-appropriate understanding, easy access, and classroom accessibility, correlated to national and state- specific curriculum standards, and shared, free-of-charge, with educators throughout the world. We will also integrate these resources within a series of online professional development courses to be offered through the PBS TeacherLine service, higher education institutions, and other distribution channels. The overarching goal of the proposed project is to enhance understanding of environmental health issues among teachers and students from Kindergarten through Grade 12. Toward such ends, we will produce engaging, rich-media-based materials to assist in both learning and teaching this content, providing tools and strategies for integrating these topics within ongoing classes across the curriculum as well as within pre-service and in-service training programs. By using the Teachers' Domain platform, we are assured of extensive and widespread reach - this digital library has already received over 18 million site visits since its launch several years ago and currently has 360,000 registered users from 179 countries (including 67% of the public schools in the U.S.). Usage continues to grow rapidly as knowledge of its availability expands - average monthly visits total approximately 700,000, with the rate of cumulative visits doubling every 6-7 months. A distinguished team of scientists, developers, and educators will be assembled for this initiative. Complementing the core Teachers' Domain production team at WGBH will be environmental health experts from the Boston Public Health Commission (led by Margaret Reid) and the NIH/NIEHS Centers for Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (led by Ann Backus) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (led by Dr. Karen Vandiver), as well as doctors and scientists from the Boston Medical Center and practicing teachers from local communities throughout the state. The Principal Investigator will beTed Sicker, Senior Executive Producer at WGBH and Director of the Teachers' Domain program since its inception. Publice Health Relevance: The relevance of the proposed materials development project is described below. The full Program Narrative is presented on the PHS 398 Research Plan section of this proposal. We expect this project to have significant and lasting impact on K-12 educators, as the proposed products - a digital library collection of purpose built, rich-media resources targeting environmental health science issues and a series of companion online professional development course modules - will serve both to increase their own understanding of related content and to build their capacity for integrating this information within ongoing curricular activities, from Kindergarten through Grade 12. As a result, better informed students and teachers will not only be empowered to avoid adverse environmental exposures, but also helped to become knowledgable citizens who can assess and affect important public health issues.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请涉及广泛的挑战领域（12）科学，技术，工程和数学教育（STEM）和特定的挑战主题12-ES-101：环境健康课程的材料开发。WGBH教育基金会建议制作，组装和传播专用资源的多媒体集合，以帮助K-12教师和学生深入参与环境健康问题。www.teachersdomain.org这些视频和辅助材料主要来自PBS的电视节目，如NOVA、前线、自然和亚瑟。它们将根据年龄进行定制和情境化，以便于理解，易于访问和课堂访问，与国家和州特定的课程标准相关联，并与世界各地的教育工作者免费共享。我们还将通过PBS TeacherLine服务，高等教育机构和其他分销渠道提供一系列在线专业发展课程，整合这些资源。拟议项目的总体目标是提高从幼儿园到12年级的教师和学生对环境健康问题的认识。为此，我们将制作引人入胜的，基于丰富媒体的材料，以帮助学习和教学这一内容，提供工具和策略，将这些主题整合到正在进行的课程中，以及在职前和在职培训计划中。通过使用Teachers' Domain平台，我们确保了广泛和广泛的覆盖范围-这个数字图书馆自几年前推出以来已经收到了超过1800万次网站访问，目前拥有来自179个国家的360，000名注册用户（包括美国67%的公立学校）。随着对其可用性的了解不断扩大，使用量继续迅速增长-平均每月访问量约为70万，累积访问量每6-7个月翻一番。一个由科学家、开发人员和教育工作者组成的杰出团队将为此倡议而聚集。WGBH的核心教师领域制作团队将由波士顿公共卫生委员会的环境卫生专家组成（由Margaret Reid领导）和哈佛公共卫生学院的NIH/NIEHS环境卫生中心（由安巴克斯领导）和马萨诸塞州理工学院（由Karen Vandiver博士领导），以及来自波士顿医疗中心的医生和科学家以及来自全州当地社区的执业教师。 首席研究员将成为泰德·锡克，WGBH的高级执行制片人和教师领域项目自成立以来的主任。 公共卫生相关性：拟议材料开发项目的相关性描述如下。 完整的项目叙述见本建议书的PHS 398研究计划部分。我们希望这个项目对K-12教育工作者产生重大而持久的影响，因为拟议的产品-一个专门建造的数字图书馆收藏，丰富的媒体资源，针对环境健康科学问题和一系列配套的在线专业发展课程模块-这将有助于增加他们自己对相关内容的理解，并培养他们将这些信息融入正在进行的课程的能力。从幼儿园到12年级。因此，更了解情况的学生和教师不仅能够避免不利的环境暴露，而且还有助于成为能够评估和影响重要公共卫生问题的知识公民。