GP:IN Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC (GET OUT in NC)

位于教堂山的北卡罗来纳大学环境研究所将与北卡罗来纳大学自然科学博物馆一起，在北卡罗来纳大学实施地球科学户外教学（GET OUT in NC）。该项目的目标是通过为中学科学教师和青年实施社区应对气候变化的教育计划，支持多样化的未来劳动力和具有stem素养的公众。在三年的时间里，北卡州的“走出”计划将邀请40名来自北卡州东部的中学教师在州立公园学习经验，培养他们将当前气候变化影响研究纳入教学的能力。该项目还将直接吸引50-60名高中年龄的年轻人在北卡罗来纳州格林维尔市的北卡罗来纳州自然科学博物馆进行编程，向不同的年轻人介绍地球科学的教育和职业。北卡州立公园和马丁县学校也在这个项目上进行合作。北卡罗来纳户外地球科学教学（GET OUT in NC）的总体目标是支持多样化的未来劳动力和stem素养的公众，特别是通过吸引北卡罗来纳东部不同的青年参与地球科学研究、教育和职业道路。该计划有三个主要目标：(1)提高中学科学教师的地球科学知识和教学方法，使他们能够让学生积极参与地球科学学习；(2)通过非正式学习当地/区域气候变化影响和解决方案，增加高中生对地球科学研究和职业的认识和兴趣；(3)通过支持来自当地科学中心和州立公园、当地学区和大学地球科学系的教育工作者、研究人员和自然资源专业人员之间的合作，培育地球科学学习生态系统。通过将我们社会面临的两个关键问题，即社区对气候变化影响的适应能力的需求和地球科学多样性的缺乏，该项目为实现劳动力多样化，同时开发可广泛复制的本地解决方案奠定了基础。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina (NC) at Chapel Hill, together with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, will implement Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC (GET OUT in NC). The goal of this project is to support a diverse future workforce and STEM-literate public, by implementing educational programming on community resilience to climate change for secondary science teachers and youth. Over three years, GET OUT in NC will engage 40 secondary teachers from eastern NC in learning experiences in state parks, building their capability to incorporate current research on climate change impacts into their teaching. The project also will directly engage 50-60 high school aged youth in programming at the Greenville, NC location of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, introducing diverse youth to education and careers in geosciences. NC State Parks and Martin County Schools also are collaborating on this project.The overarching goal of Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC (GET OUT in NC) is to support a diverse future workforce and STEM-literate public, specifically by engaging diverse youth in eastern North Carolina in geoscience research, education, and career pathways. The project has three primary objectives: (1) enhance secondary science teachers’ geoscience knowledge and pedagogy to enable them to engage their students in active geoscience learning; (2) increase knowledge of and interest in geosciences research and careers among high school aged youth through informal learning about local/regional climate change impacts and solutions; and (3) cultivate a geoscience learning ecosystem by supporting collaboration among educators, researchers, and natural resource professionals from local science centers and state parks, local school districts, and university geoscience departments. By interweaving two critical issues facing our society, namely the need for community resilience to climate change impacts and lack of diversity in geosciences, this project lays a foundation for diversifying the workforce while developing local solutions that can replicated broadly.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.