Cascades To Coast GK-12: Enhancing STEM Education through Environmental Sustainability

级联到海岸GK-12：通过环境可持续性加强STEM教育级联到海岸GK-12项目将在波特兰州立大学、S环境学院(SOE)和俄勒冈州的三个学区之间建立合作伙伴关系，以实现围绕环境可持续发展主题加强初中、高中和研究生STEM教育的目标。该项目将支持50个GK-12高级研究生博士奖学金，直接与教师合作，让1500多名六年级至九年级学生参与旨在增加对物理和生物科学以及环境可持续性关键概念的理解的探究和实地考察。从俄勒冈州S瀑布山脉到太平洋的S地理广度项目将提供一个跨越不同学区和生态系统的学习社区的机会。项目活动包括一个暑期培训学院、举办为期一年的研究生研讨会“公共传播、教育和职业”、教师专业发展讲习班和年终学生海报会议。项目成果包括：发展和改进研究员？教学技能和面向不同受众的公共宣传；将K-12活动和公共宣传制度化，纳入国有企业研究生课程；增加教师？对当前科学内容的了解和创造引人入胜的探究活动的技能；增加学生？关于环境可持续性的科学原理的知识，并通过分享经过实地测试的、以主题为基础的科学探究项目和相关课程，为STEM教育知识库做出贡献。将开发一个网站，以分享项目想法、获得的环境数据以及最终测试和改进的课程单元。稳健的评估将指导持续改进，传播结果，并支持成功组成部分的继续。

Cascades to Coast GK-12: Enhancing STEM Education through Environmental SustainabilityThe Cascades to Coast GK-12 project will establish partnerships between Portland State University?s School of the Environment (SOE) and three Oregon school districts toward the goals of enhancing middle, high school and graduate STEM education around the theme of environmental sustainability. The project will support fifty GK-12 PhD Fellowships for advanced graduate students to work directly with teachers to engage over 1500 sixth through ninth grade students in inquiry and field studies designed to increase understanding of key concepts in the physical and biological sciences and environmental sustainability. The project?s geographic breadth, from Oregon?s Cascade Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, will provide an opportunity to create a learning community across diverse school districts and ecosystems. Project activities include a summer training institute, the development of a required year long graduate seminar "Public Communication, Education and Careers", teacher professional development workshops, and end-of-year student poster conference. Project outcomes include: developing and improving Fellows? skills in teaching and public outreach to diverse audiences; institutionalizing K-12 activities and public outreach into SOE graduate curricula; increasing teachers? knowledge of current science content and their skills in creating engaging inquiry activities; increasing students? knowledge about the scientific principles underlying environmental sustainability and contributing to the STEM education knowledge base by sharing field-tested, theme-based science inquiry projects and related curricula. A website will be developed to share project ideas, environmental data acquired, and final tested and refined curriculum units. A robust evaluation will guide continuous improvement, disseminate findings, and support continuation of successful components.