Earth Partnership: Indigenous Arts and Sciences -- Connecting STEM to Native Science

该项目将推动创新的技术经验的学生和教师（ITEST）计划的努力，以更好地了解和促进实践，提高学生的动机和能力，追求在科学，技术，工程，或数学（STEM），通过产生经验发现和/或研究工具，有助于了解哪些模型和干预措施与K-12学生和教师最有可能提高未来STEM和STEM同源密集型劳动力的能力。该项目将为进一步研究美洲原住民青年教育的最佳实践开辟道路。该项目将通过处理土著学生和教育工作者的文化观点，加强现有的土著艺术和科学项目。该方法描述了需要将生态相关性纳入美洲原住民青年的STEM学习，将西方科学与本土知识，过程和核心价值观相结合，这将对美洲原住民青年的兴趣和学习科学产生积极影响。该项目将与威斯康星州的四个部落社区合作，提供一个与文化相关的基于管理的教育模式，将科学应用于土著知识和社区文化联系。非正式科学教育将通过地球伙伴关系（EP）进行，并将使参与者参与生境恢复和管理，作为跨年龄、学科、文化和地点的代际科学学习的背景。EP土著艺术和科学（IAS）将西方科学与土著知识，过程和核心价值观（包括关系，互惠，尊重和责任）相结合。该项目将召集来自Red Cliff，Bad River，Lac du Flambeau和Ho-Chunk Nations的长者和社区成员与大学社会，物理和生命科学家的专业知识，以扩大非正式的科学学习，包括生态保护和恢复，公民科学和文化多样性。代表性不足的群体的STEM学习和职业道路将在非正式和文化相关的背景下发生，对于提高生态和STEM素养，效率和公民参与变得重要。IAS将让学生，教育工作者，老年人，非正式教育工作者，自然资源专业人员和家长参与社区对话和关系建设，非正式-正式的专业发展合作，以及本土化的STEM学习体验和对8-12年级学生的指导。科学内容将通过技术增强，基于项目的学习，在现实生活中融入课堂和非正式环境中的文化进行探索。该项目基于对土著智慧的越来越多的研究，将土著青年和更广泛的社区与环境重新联系起来。该项目广泛发生在科学学习，环境正义，生态恢复，部落历史和文化的交叉点，在全球气候和社会变化的关键时刻。IAS将利用这一基于项目的学习模式，通过包括老年人、家庭、青年、正规和非正规教育工作者在内的合作努力，促进了解如何以及为什么将非正规科学学习本土化，将振兴文化、社区和教育。

This project will advance efforts of the innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by producing empirical findings and/or research tools that contribute to knowledge about which models and interventions with K-12 students and teachers are most likely to increase capacity in the STEM and STEM cognate intensive workforce of the future.The project will build a path to further research on best practices for Native American youth education. It will enhance the existing Indigenous Arts and Sciences (IAS) project by addressing cultural perspectives of Native students and educators. The approach describes the need to include ecological relevance in STEM learning for Native American youth, with an integration of Western science with Native knowledge, process, and core values, which will give a positive impact on Native American youth's interest in and learning of science. The project will deliver a culturally relevant stewardship-based education model applying science to indigenous knowledge and community culture connections in collaboration with four tribal communities in Wisconsin. Informal science education will come through the Earth Partnership (EP) and will involve participants in habitat restoration and stewardship as a context for intergenerational science learning across age, discipline, culture and place. EP Indigenous Arts and Sciences (IAS) integrates Western science with Native knowledge, process, and core values including relationship, reciprocity, respect and responsibility.The project will convene the expertise of elders and community members from Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac du Flambeau, and Ho-Chunk Nations with university social, physical, and life scientists to expand informal science learning incorporating ecological protection and restoration, citizen science, and cultural diversity. STEM learning and career pathways for underrepresented groups will occur in an informal and culturally relevant contexts becoming important for enhancing ecological and STEM literacy, efficacy and civic engagement. IAS will engage students, educators, elders, informal educators, natural resource professionals, and parents in community dialogues and relationship building, informal-formal professional development collaborations, and indigenized STEM learning experiences and mentoring for students in grades 8-12. The science content will be explored through technology-enhanced, project-based learning in real-life contexts integrating culture in classroom and informal settings. This project is based on a growing body of research on Indigenous wisdom that reconnects Native youth and the broader community with the environment. The project occurs broadly at the intersection of science learning, environmental justice, ecological restoration, tribal history, and culture at a crucial time of global climate and social change. IAS will use this project-based learning model to advance the knowledge of how and why indigenizing informal science learning through a collaborative effort including elders, families, youth, formal and informal educators will revitalize culture, community and education.