Explore NJ: Attracting African and Hispanic American High School Students in Northeastern Jersey to Geosciences (Track 1)

蒙特克莱尔州立大学正在与新泽西州东北部的四所公立高中(蒙特克莱尔高中、布卢姆菲尔德高中、纽阿克理工大学和哥伦比亚高中)合作。关于一个多层次项目，以增加参加高中地球环境和海洋科学教育方案并在这些领域攻读大学学位和职业的非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国高中生(9-12年级)的人数。其他目标包括通过严格的专业发展和学年支持，提高学生对地球科学的社会相关性的普遍兴趣和认识，以及改善在这些学校工作的教师的地球科学内容知识。合作的高中是表现优异的学校，有相当多的少数民族人口，已经在教授地球科学课程。该项目结合了旨在相互加强和加强的各种明确的活动，以实现增加对地球环境/海洋科学的兴趣、了解、欣赏和追求的目标。教师参加专业发展讲习班，学习将在以后的实地考察中体现的基本地球科学素养概念，并学习如何将这些概念纳入其课程。学生们正在利用实地考察访问几个与地球环境/海洋科学有关的地点，并对与地球科学有关的对社会具有重要意义的现象进行有趣的、动手的、基于调查的调查。当地地球科学专业人员，主要是非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人的演讲突出了地球科学研究所体现的职业潜力，并成为榜样。学生们利用学校附近的水体参与一项“公民科学家”水监测项目，利用这些数据进行科学调查，并在蒙特克莱尔州立大学召开年终会议。在第一个夏天，40名学生参加了为期一周的暑期学院，在蒙特克莱尔州立大学的主校区及其位于新泽西州西北部的斯托克斯州立森林荒野校区进行调查。在第二个暑假，被选中的学生将在大学、政府机构或非营利性机构参加为期一个月的地球科学实习。该项目正在测试几种不同战略的有效性，以吸引/吸引中产阶级社区学校中代表不足的年轻人，这些年轻人已经倾向于上大学并追求职业生涯。它还对针对不同少数民族学生群体的不同策略的有效性和可行性进行了比较，并调查了完全融合的高中和近100%的少数民族学校之间的任何差异。

Montclair State University is collaborating with four public high schools in northeastern New Jersey (Montclair H.S., Bloomfield H.S., NewarkTech, and Columbia H.S.) on a multi-tiered project to increase the number of African-American and Hispanic-American high school students (grades 9-12) that participate in high school geo-environmental and ocean science education programs and pursue college degrees and careers in these fields. Additional goals include increasing general student interest in, and awareness of, the societal relevance of the geosciences and improving the geoscience content knowledge of teachers working at these schools, through rigorous professional development and academic-year support. The partnering high schools are high-performing schools with significant minority populations that are already teaching geoscience courses. The project combines a variety of articulated activities that are intended to reinforce and build on each other to achieve the goals of increasing interest, understanding, appreciation and pursuit of geo-environmental/ocean sciences. Teachers participate in a professional development workshop to learn basic Earth Science Literacy concepts that will be embodied in later field trips and learn how to incorporate these concepts into their curricula. Students are using field trips to visit several geo-environmental/ocean science-related sites and performing fun, hands-on, inquiry-based investigations of geoscience-related phenomena important to society. Presentations by local geoscience professionals, primarily African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans, are highlighting the career potential embodied in study of geoscience and serving as role models. Students participate in a "citizen scientist" water monitoring program using a water body near their school, perform a scientific investigation using the data, and convene for a year-end conference at Montclair State. In the first summer, forty students participate in a week long summer institute, performing investigations at Montclair State's main campus and at its "wilderness" campus of Stokes State Forest in far northwestern NJ. In the second summer, selected students will be participating in a month-long geoscience internship at a university, government agency, or nonprofit agency. The project is testing the effectiveness of several different strategies to engage/attract underrepresented youth in schools in middle-class communities, who are already predisposed to attending college and pursuing a professional career. It also is making comparisons of the effectiveness and feasibility of different strategies for distinct minority student populations, as well as investigating any differences between fully integrated high schools and nearly 100% minority schools.