Youth & the Ocean: Teaming High School and Graduate Students Together for Coastal Investigations

位于劳伦斯科学馆的加州海洋科学教育卓越中心、加州大学伯克利分校和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校正在利用NSF OEDG资助的项目“减少海洋地球科学事业取得学术成就的障碍：开发一个综合海洋地球科学素养的示范中学课程”赠款#GEO-0703812（也称为“青年海洋！“），在中学生进入高中阶段时保持与他们的连续性。这个为期两年的试点项目，青年海洋：高中研究生合作一起进行海岸调查，开发了一个基于调查的地球科学教育计划模型，该计划涉及代表性不足的高中生长期潮间带监测项目和相关的为期一周的，基于调查的，住宅研究计划由研究生导师提供便利。该项目为24名代表性不足的高中生提供了机会，以提高他们对地球科学的兴趣，接触和理解，提高这些学生追求地球科学研究或职业领域的可能性。该项目为12名地球科学研究生提供了指导高中生的培训和实践，以提高他们对将严格的教育和推广纳入他们作为未来科学家的研究工作的至关重要性的理解。该项目还用于开发和现场测试可复制的，基于调查的地球科学教育计划，可广泛用作大学海洋科学实验室履行其推广和公共教育任务的有效模式。

The Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, California at Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley and the University of California Santa Cruz are leveraging the NSF OEDG-funded project, "Reducing Barriers to Academic Achievement & Marine Geosciences Careers: Developing a Model Middle School Program Integrating Marine Geosciences & Literacy" Grant #GEO-0703812 (also known as "Youth & the Ocean!"), by maintaining continuity with middle school student participants as they enter their high school years. This two-year pilot project, Youth & the Ocean: Teaming High School & Graduate Students Together for Coastal Investigations, develops a model inquiry-based geosciences education program that engages underrepresented high school students in a long-term intertidal monitoring project and a related weeklong, inquiry-based, residential research program facilitated by graduate student mentors. This project provides 24 underrepresented high school students with opportunities to increase their interest in, exposure to, and understanding of geosciences, improving the likelihood that these students will pursue geosciences fields of study or careers. The project provides 12 geoscience graduate students with training and practice in mentoring high school students to increase their understanding of the critical importance of incorporating rigorous education and outreach into their research endeavors as future scientists. The project also serves to develop and field-test a replicable, inquiry-based geosciences education program that can be widely used as an effective model for university marine science laboratories to fulfill their outreach and public education missions.