GP IN: Developing a Water Research, Assessment, and Networking Ecosystem (WRANE) for Informal Geoscience Instruction on Water Resources

该项目由促进竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）计划共同资助。该项目的总体目标是通过发展可持续的水资源研究、评估和网络生态系统（WRANE），增加高中生和社区大学生对地球科学的接触，提高地球科学教育的多样性和质量。该项目将从俄克拉何马州的学校招收历史上被排斥的社区的学生，并让他们参与与他们的生活经验相关的实践研究活动，以提高他们对地球科学的理解，并增加未来地球科学专业的数量和多样性。这些活动旨在教育学生和教师，鼓励参与科学，并增加教师、学生和公众对地球科学和STEM领域的了解。为了实现这一目标，WRANE将建立校外小组，由学校的老师直接监督，俄勒冈州立大学布恩皮肯斯地质学院的教授、学生和其他导师定期提供帮助和投入，制作教育视频和活动，提供实地和实验室技术指导，并协助开发、设计和执行一个基于水的公民科学研究项目。水研究、评估和网络生态系统（WRANE）计划的目的是改善高中和社区大学水平的长期地球科学教育，使参与的学生有更好的学习成绩和科学素养，并对地球科学专业和职业产生兴趣。校外小组的参与者将学习与水有关的地球科学概念，并参与与水有关的公民科学研究项目，由俄克拉荷马州立大学的私人顾问指导。通过关注与水相关的研究项目并激励学生发展研究思路，WRANE公民科学项目的结果将对当地社区具有更大的重要性和相关性，并可能导致努力了解，改善和保护俄克拉荷马州的水资源。该项目的产品包括教学和内容特定的视频，学生研究项目的科学数据，以及对项目成功、教学法和管理的评估。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。

This project is jointly funded by the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. The overarching goal of this project is to increase the exposure of high school and community college students to the geosciences and improve the diversity and quality of geoscience education through the development of a sustainable Water Research, Assessment, and Networking Ecosystem (WRANE). The project will recruit students from historically excluded communities who attend Oklahoma schools and involve them in hands-on research activities related to their lived experience to improve their understanding of geosciences and increase the number and diversity of future geoscience majors. The activities are designed to educate students and teachers, encourage engagement in participatory science, and increase the exposure of teachers, students, and the general public to geoscience and STEM fields. To accomplish this, WRANE will establish out-of-school-time groups directly supervised by a teacher at the school with regular assistance and input from OSU Boone Pickens School of Geology professors, students, and other mentors, create educational videos and activities, provide instruction in field and lab techniques, and assist in the development, design, and execution of a water-based citizen science research project. The aim of the Water Research, Assessment, and Networking Ecosystem (WRANE) program is to improve long-term geoscience education at high school and community college levels so that participating students will have better academic records and scientific literacy and an interest in geoscience majors and careers. Participants in the out-of-school groups will learn water-related geoscience concepts and participate in water-related citizen science research projects, mentored by PIs from Oklahoma State University. By focusing on water-related research projects and stimulating students to develop research ideas, the results of the WRANE citizen science projects will be of greater importance and relevance to the local communities and could result in efforts to understand, improve and protect water resources in Oklahoma. Products from this project include instructional and content specific videos, scientific data from student research projects, and assessments of program success, pedagogy, and management.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.