Track 1, GK-12: Engineering Fellows in G6-9 Science Education

在这个为期三年的项目中，密苏里-哥伦比亚大学工程与教育学院将与密苏里州中部的三个学区（一个小城市和两个农村）、工程企业和密苏里州中小学教育部合作，提高工程研究生的教学方法和团队建设技能，增加6-9年级科学和数学教师的工程内容。并提供机会，让中六至九年级的学生亲身参与工程设计项目，以提高他们对科学和数学的兴趣。知识价值。工程和教育教师与研究员和G6-9科学教师一起工作，将内容和教学技巧融合在一起，以更好地全面影响研究员的发展。这进一步强调了要求研究员在他们的论文中包括一个关于这一推广活动的章节。通过明确地让研究员参与决策，包括赋予他们权力和发展领导技能；该项目采用独特的团队方法，将工程设计融入到K-12教育中，这是全国公认的需求；在学校发展未来科学家和工程师俱乐部，将建议的活动与课程活动联系起来，提高效率和改善可持续性；以及提议的通过远程链接的全球连接为所有参与者的所有活动增加了一个重要的教育层面。更广泛的影响。拟议的项目将有助于发展基础设施，以工程设计为中心，在G6-9科学和数学教育工作者、高等教育、工业和国家中小学教育部门之间建立更深入和持续的伙伴关系。开发的原型资源（针对研究生、教师、G6-9年级学生）将提供给全地区、全州、全国的研究生、初中科学、数学教师、高等教育机构，并期待他们在适当的时候加以利用。工程设计项目的注入也应该促进内容丰富和基于探究的方法的发展。研究生也将受益于提高技能转移到各种职业。积极吸引学生参与设计的重要性不仅可以丰富科学和数学的教学，还可以通过提供方法来应对从生态问题到个人生活等不同领域的其他挑战，从而建立与日常生活的联系。将强调将妇女和少数民族纳入该方案的所有方面。该项目的部分资金由工程局提供。

In this 3-year project, the Colleges of Engineering and Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia will collaborate with three central Missouri school districts (one small city and two rural), engineering businesses, and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to improve the pedagogy and team-building skills of engineering graduate students, increase the engineering content for G6-9 science and mathematics teachers, and provide opportunities to increase interest in science and mathematics among G6-9 students using hands-on engineering design projects. Intellectual Merit. Engineering and education faculty working together with Fellows and G6-9 science teachers blends content and pedagogy skills for better overall impact on the Fellows' development. This is further emphasized by requiring the Fellows to include a chapter about this outreach activity in their dissertation. Empowerment of the Fellows and development of leadership skills is included by explicitly involving them in decision making; infusion of engineering design into K-12 education, a nationally recognized need, is furthered by the project, using a unique team approach; development of Future Scientists and Engineers Clubs in schools links the proposed activities with curricular ones, enhancing effectiveness and improving sustainability, and; the proposed global connections via distance links adds an important educational dimension to all the activities, for all the participants. Broader Impact. The proposed project will help develop infrastructure for deeper and sustained partnerships, centered on engineering design, among G6-9 science and mathematics educators, higher education, industry, and the department of elementary and secondary education of the state. The prototype resources (for graduate students, teachers, and G6-9 students) developed will be made available to graduate students, middle and secondary science and mathematics teachers, and higher education throughout the region, the state, and the nation, with the expectation that they will utilize them whenever appropriate. Infusion of engineering design projects should also facilitate the development of content-rich and inquiry-based approaches. The graduate students will also benefit from enhanced skills transferable to a variety of occupations. The importance of actively engaging students in design has the potential not only to enrich teaching of science and mathematics, but also to forge connections to daily life by providing approaches to meet other challenges in diverse areas ranging from ecological issues to personal life. The inclusion of women and minorities in all aspects of this program will be stressed.Partial funding for this project is provided by the Directorate for Engineering.