NSF GK-12 Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education GLACIER-Global Change Initiative-Education & Research

全球范围的环境变化对我们的生存至关重要，因为它们可能影响到地球维持生命的能力。从教育和研究的角度来看，全球变化的主题提出了一个查询，探索和发现在各个年级的丰富领域。GLACIER的主要目标是通过培训研究生观察和分析物理和人为过程及其在各种空间和时间尺度上的后果，为研究生提供全球变化研究的强大跨学科视角。 GLACIER研究员还将有机会提高他们的教学技能，并学习如何将他们的研究转化为5- 8年级令人兴奋和充满活力的STEM课堂课程。 GLACIER还将培训教师使用地理空间技术（如遥感，全球定位系统（GPS）和地理信息系统（GIS））;了解用于研究全球变化的方法和实地工作，根据跨学科方法为5-8年级创建可持续课程，并培养学生思考环境问题的新方法。更广泛的影响：GLACIER将帮助教育公民能够对环境做出明智的决定，并培养具有多学科视角和强大分析能力的未来一代科学家。最后，系统的评估标准将提供关于我们的多学科重点的价值的反馈。GLACIER将加强波士顿大学与剑桥和布鲁克林两个合作学区之间的联系，并加强与当地博物馆、动物园、水族馆和其他实地考察地点的现有联系。

Global-scale environmental changes are critical to our survival as they may affect the capacity of the Earth to sustain life. From the perspective of education and research, the topic of global change presents a rich domain of inquiry, exploration, and discovery at all grade levels. GLACIER's primary goal is to provide graduate fellows a strong interdisciplinary perspective on global change research by training them to observe and analyze both physical and anthropogenic processes and their consequences at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. GLACIER fellows will also have the opportunity to enhance their teaching skills and learn how to translate their research into exciting and dynamic STEM classroom lessons in grades 5- 8. GLACIER will also train teachers to use geospatial technologies (such as remote sensing, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)); learn about methods and field work used to study global change, create sustainable curricula for grades 5-8 based on an inter-disciplinary approach, and cultivate new ways of engaging their students to think about environmental problems. Broader Impacts: GLACIER will help educate a citizenry that can make informed decisions about the environment, and to train future generation of scientists with a multi-disciplinary perspective and strong analytical skills. Finally, systematic evaluation criteria will provide feedback regarding the value of our multi-disciplinary focus. GLACIER will strengthen the ties between Boston University and two partner school districts of Cambridge and Brookline, as well as enhance existing links to local museums, zoo, aquarium, and other field sites.