New, GK-12 SUNRISE: Schools, University 'N' (and) Resources In the Sciences and Engineering-A NSF/GMU GK-12 Fellows Project

提案#:0638680PI: Rajesh GanesanINSTITUTION：乔治梅森大学标题：计算新，GK-12 SUNRISE：学校，大学和资源在科学和工程SUNRISE是一个新的GK-12项目合作干研究生从乔治梅森大学与教师年级4-6来自弗吉尼亚州的三个不同的学校部门。该项目的目标是在教师、学校管理人员和参与的大学之间建立一种独特的合作模式，以促进在K-12教育中系统地实施信息技术丰富的内容知识。这是通过当代领域的科学主题，如GPS、纳米技术和海洋学来支持的，并通过动手实验的课程带入课堂。这个项目的智力价值在于，创新的信息技术主题为参与者提供了一个多层次的学习经验，促进科学主题的知识和促进专业发展。这是通过构建一个框架来实现的，该框架提供了知识思想的培训和交流，并整合了来自不同学科的科学研究。它为参与者提供了在自己的领域内发现、扩大和深化知识的机会，以及通过GK-12研究生研究员提供知识的机制。该计划更广泛的影响包括为奖学金学生提供专业发展机会，加强他们的教学和沟通技巧。该项目为国家科学劳动力的质量和数量的持续增长提供了潜力。研究和教育的整合以及所有利益相关者的能力建设提供了许多极好的可能性和制度文化变革，改变了K-12和研究生教育。该项目还通过关注来自代表性不足人群的研究员和K-12学生，支持鼓励不同人群参与科学研究。

PROPOSAL #:0638680PI: Rajesh GanesanINSTITUTION: George Mason UniversityTITLE: Computation New, GK-12 SUNRISE: Schools, University, and Resources in the Sciences and Engineering SUNRISE is a new GK-12 project partnering STEM graduate students from George Mason University with teachers in grades 4-6 from three different school divisions in the state of Virginia. The objective of the project is to build a unique model of collaboration among teachers, school administrators, and the participating university to foster systemic efforts in implementing information technology rich content-knowledge into K-12 education. This is supported through science topics from contemporary areas such as GPS, nanotechnology, and oceanography and is brought into the classroom through lessons with hands-on experiments. The intellectual merit of this project is that creative information technology theme provides participants with a multi-level learning experience that advances knowledge of science topics and fosters professional development. This is achieved by constructing a framework that provides training and exchange of intellectual ideas, and integrates scientific research from diverse disciplines. It provides participants with an opportunity to discover, widen, and deepen knowledge within their own field as well as a mechanism to deliver that knowledge through the GK-12 graduate fellows. The broader impacts of the project include professional development opportunities for Fellows that strengthen their instructional and communication skills. The project offers the potential for sustained growth in quality and quantity of the nation's scientific workforce. The integration of research and education as well as the building of capacity of all the stakeholders offers many excellent possibilities and institutional culture change that transforms K-12 and graduate education. The project also supports the encouragement of diverse populations in the sciences through a focus on fellows and K-12 students from underrepresented populations.