Hazards TEAMS: Teacher Education & Activities for Minority Students in the Meteorological, Geologic and Hydrologic Hazards. TRACK 1

密西西比州立大学的地球科学和土木与环境工程项目正在合作，为K-12的教师和学生提供地质学、气象学和水文学方面的学习经验，这些课程的共同主题是自然灾害。灾害小组项目有4个目标：1)增加K-12教师的地球科学内容知识，2)增加学生对地球科学职业的知识和获得这些职业所需的途径，3)通过在密西西比州立大学（MSU）进行课堂教学和有趣的实践活动来增加学生对地球科学的兴趣，4)更好地使辅导员指导学生进入地球科学专业和职业道路。项目团队正在为8-10名来自密西西比州高少数民族学区的“合作教师”以及密西西比州移民学生教育中心提供与危害相关的讲习班。在接下来的一年里，这些合作教师为第二组教师举办了类似的讲习班。中学和初中学生通过活动日和密歇根州立大学校园的夏令营以及教师能够带入课堂的材料和课程获得有关地球科学的知识。活动日和夏令营增加了学生对地球科学的兴趣，并使中学生接触到大学校园和实验室。他们还让年轻的学生接触到目前就读于地球科学专业的学生，这些学生可能会成为榜样。通过设计的小册子，将重点放在增加学生对地球科学职业和大学专业的知识上，这些小册子将邮寄给全州的指导顾问。在制作手册之前，我们对指导顾问进行了调查，以确定他们对地球科学专业的职业和教育途径的认识，以及学生可以利用的课程和活动，以增加他们成功进入和完成地球科学专业的机会。

The Mississippi State University Geosciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering programs are collaborating to provide learning experiences for both K-12 teachers and students in geology, meteorology and hydrology under the common theme of natural hazards. The Hazards TEAMS project has 4 goals: 1) to increase K-12 teachers' Earth Science content knowledge, 2) to increase students' knowledge of geoscience careers and the path needed to obtain them, 3) to increase student interest in geosciences through engaging lessons in the classroom and fun hands-on activities at Mississippi State University (MSU), and 4) to better enable guidance counselors to direct students into geoscience majors and career paths. The project team is providing a hazards-related workshop for 8-10 "Partner Teachers" from high-minority Mississippi school districts, as well as the Mississippi Migrant Student Education Center. During the following year, these partner teachers lead a similar workshop for a second group of teachers. Middle and junior high school students are gaining knowledge about the geosciences through activity days and a summer camp on the MSU campus as well as through materials and lessons the teachers are able to bring into the classroom. The activity days and summer camp are increasing student interest in the geosciences as well as exposing middle or junior high school students to a college campus and laboratories. They are also exposing younger students to individuals currently enrolled in majors leading to careers in the geosciences who may serve as role models. The focus on increasing students' knowledge of careers and college majors available in the geosciences is also addressed through designed brochures that are mailed to guidance counselors throughout the state. Prior to the creation of the brochure, guidance counselors are surveyed to determine their awareness of the careers and education pathways available in the geosciences, as well the coursework and activities students can take advantage of to increase their chance of success in entering and completing a geoscience major.