Teachers' Domain: Environmental Health

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)和具体的挑战主题12-ES-101：环境健康课程的材料开发。WGBH教育基金会建议制作、汇编和传播多媒体资源集合，以帮助K-12教师和学生深入参与环境健康问题。这些视频和辅助材料将主要来自公共广播公司的电视节目《Nova》、《Frontline》、《自然》和《Arthur》。这些课程将根据年龄的需要进行定制和背景设置，以便于理解、便于获取和课堂可访问性，与国家和州特定的课程标准相关，并与世界各地的教育工作者免费共享。我们还将把这些资源整合到一系列在线专业发展课程中，这些课程将通过PBS TeacherLine服务、高等教育机构和其他分销渠道提供。该计划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了解。为此，我们将制作引人入胜的、基于富媒体的材料来帮助学习和教授这一内容，提供工具和策略，将这些主题整合到整个课程的正在进行的课程中，以及在职前和在职培训计划中。通过使用教师领域平台，我们可以确保广泛和广泛的访问--这个数字图书馆自几年前推出以来，已经有超过1800万的网站访问，目前拥有来自179个国家的36万注册用户(包括美国67%的公立学校)。随着对其可用性的了解不断扩大，使用率继续快速增长-平均每月访问总数约为700,000，累计访问率每6-7个月翻一番。一支由科学家、开发人员和教育工作者组成的杰出团队将为这一倡议而集结。与WGBH的核心教师领域制作团队相辅相成的是来自波士顿公共卫生委员会(由玛格丽特·里德领导)、哈佛公共卫生学院(由Ann Backus领导)的NIH/NIEHS环境健康中心和麻省理工学院(由Karen Vandiver博士领导)的环境健康专家，以及来自波士顿医学中心的医生和科学家以及来自全州当地社区的实习教师。 WGBH高级执行制片人兼教师领域计划自成立以来一直担任主任的首席调查员Will Beted Spher说。 公共卫生相关性：拟议材料开发项目的相关性如下所述。完整的计划说明在本提案的PHS 398研究计划部分提供。我们预计这个项目将对K-12教育工作者产生重大和持久的影响，因为拟议的产品-一个专门针对环境健康科学问题建造的富媒体资源的数字图书馆集合，以及一系列配套的在线专业发展课程模块-将有助于增加他们对相关内容的理解，并培养他们将这些信息整合到从幼儿园到12年级的持续课程活动中的能力。因此，更知情的学生和教师不仅能够避免不良的环境暴露，还有助于成为知识渊博的公民，能够评估和影响重要的公共卫生问题。

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.