RAPID: Enriching Education with Authentic Science and Outreach Using Cyberinfrastructure and Partnering Research Experiences for Teachers, High School Students and Undergraduates

快速：用真实的科学丰富教育，利用网络基础设施和合作研究经验为教师、中学生和本科生提供合作研究经验墨西哥湾沿岸漏油事件提供了极好的机会，在多个层面上产生教育影响，特别是在规模、科学模型和建模的作用以及分子科学方面。这个问题关系到广大民众的内在利益，更具体地说，是包括德克萨斯州在内的墨西哥湾沿岸各州的居民。这种兴趣是提问、学习和研究的沃土。经验表明，教师、初中生和本科生都可以受益于通过丰富的数据集和灾难的多学科性质为课程提供的背景设置。网络基础设施和校园研究机会增加了他们对真实科学和科学方法的接触和了解。根据活动的及时性和距离，参与者将从学期开始以及整个学年和暑期得到支持，而活动仍在进行中，活动和信息最容易获得。这些活动是有利的和协同的，因为拟议的努力在实验室课程环境中培训本科生(类似REU)和教师(类似RET)，使他们获得传统研究经验，重点是创造凝胶化碳氢化合物的聚合物，而不是分散它们。在本学年，教师-本科生团队还将使用网络摄像头、视频会议和课堂上的其他网络基础设施工具准备与漏油和研究活动相关的材料。其他漏油活动将包括采访参与墨西哥湾漏油研究的其他科学家。暑期研究经验(REU和RET)将为那些有持续兴趣的人提供，并将把高中生纳入团队结构。此外，这些努力将提供并提供用于传播的电子资源，用于教育和建立一个由对墨西哥湾沿岸漏油事件感兴趣的新手和专家组成的虚拟组织，以吸引和增强公民科学家的能力。

RAPID: Enriching Education with Authentic Science and Outreach using Cyberinfrastructure and Partnering Research Experiences for Teachers, High School Students, and Undergraduates The Gulf Coast oil spill offers terrific opportunities for educational impact at multiple levels, specifically in areas of scale, the role of scientific models and modeling, and the molecular sciences. The problem is of intrinsic interest to the population at large, and more specifically, those inhabitants of Gulf Coast states including Texas. This interest is fertile ground for questioning, learning, and research. Experience suggests that teachers, middle and high school students and undergraduates can all benefit from contextual settings offered to the curriculum through the rich data sets and the multidisciplinary nature of the disaster. Cyberinfrastructure and on-campus research opportunities increase their exposure and understanding of authentic science and the scientific method. Based on the timeliness of the events and proximity, the participants will be supported from the start of the school term and throughout the academic year and summer while the events are still unfolding, and activities and information is most available. These activities are enabling and synergistic in that the proposed efforts train undergraduates in a lab-course setting (REU-like) and teachers (RET-like) in a traditional research experience focusing on the creation of polymers that gel hydrocarbons as opposed to dispersing them. During the academic year, teacher-undergraduate teams will also prepare materials related to the spill and research activities using webcams, video conferencing, and other cyberinfrastructure tools for the classroom. Other spill activities will include interviews with other scientists participating in Gulf spill research. Summer research experiences (REU and RET) will provided for those with continued interest, and will include high school students in the team structure. Further, the efforts will deliver and offer for dissemination, e-resources for education and the building of a virtual organization of novices and experts interested in the Gulf Coast oil spill to engage and empower citizen-scientists.