GK-12 Formal Proposal: Down to Earth Science - Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

实验和探索——科学家创造新知识的方式——将成为亚利桑那州立大学“深入地球科学”研究员/教师/学生合作项目学习和教授科学的基石。这些活动是基于一个强大的跨学科，多标量的方法，以地球系统科学在三个重要的研究领域，有力地传达科学内容-材料科学与工程，生态学和行星研究。亚利桑那州立大学准备推出并维持提高科学素养的新方法。我们将通过大规模的科学和工程研究项目，以及与K-12教育的持续和广泛的合作，扩大成功的K-12教育推广计划的强大基础设施。本项目将：1)结合符合国家科学标准的教学策略，以有意义的方式整合研究、教育和推广；2)增加教师对科学内容和概念的了解，并为他们提供让学生参与实际科学研究的机会；3)帮助重振科学教育，从使用抽象和模糊的例子到上下文和相关的；(4)向研究员灌输向更广泛的受众传播科学概念的技能，并为他们成为学生的导师和榜样做好准备。该奖项由数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同支持。

Experimentation and exploration - the way scientists create new knowledge - will be adopted as the cornerstone for learning and teaching science in Arizona State University's Down to Earth Science fellow/teacher/student partnership program. The activities are based on a strongly interdisciplinary, multiscalar approach to earth systems science in three important research domains that powerfully convey science content - Materials Science and Engineering, Ecology, and Planetary Studies.ASU is poised to launch, and sustain, new approaches to increasing scientific literacy. We will expand upon the strong infrastructure of successful K-12 educational outreach programs from large-scale science and engineering research projects as well as ongoing and extensive collaborations with K-12 education.This project will: 1) integrate research, education, and outreach in a meaningful way by incorporating instructional strategies consistent with the national science standards; 2) increase teachers'knowledge of science content and concepts, and provide them opportunities to engage their students in actual scientific research; 3) help revitalize science education from the use of abstract and obscure examples to the contextual and the relevant; and (4) instill fellows with the skills to communicate scientific concepts to a wider audience and prepare them to be mentors and role models for students.This award is co-supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.