Collaborative Proposal GEOPAths:IN Recruiting through location-based Curriculum and Field and Laboratory Research Experience for High School Students, Teachers and Undergraduates

该奖项全部或部分由2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。改善STEM K-12教育，增加进入STEM职业的年轻人的数量和多样性已被确定为国家优先事项。该项目旨在解决地球科学教育和劳动力多样性方面的这两个优先事项。 该项目将鼓励高中生，包括许多来自历史上被排斥的群体，参与地球科学或其他STEM学科，方法是：1）让他们参与参与教师制定的课程计划，解释他们生活的当地景观和自然环境，2）为他们提供参与内华达州大学地球科学研究项目的机会，拉斯维加斯和3）通过在UNLV的学生和教师之间建立个人联系。 为了促进与高中学生的互动，PI将通过举办夏季研讨会与高中地球科学教师建立长期关系，在研讨会上，教师将获得有关当地地质和自然环境的信息，并协助他们为课堂制定课程计划。这些活动将建立一个最终的经验，教师和高中学生有机会声称自己的身份作为萌芽地球科学家。 该项目将鼓励高中生，包括许多来自历史上被排斥的群体，参与地球科学或其他STEM学科。该计划将加强内华达州（UNLV）和当地社区，包括当地学区之间的关系。 项目目标将通过一项综合计划来实现，其中包括：1）建立一个专业的地球科学学习社区，以促进当地高中教师和UNLV教师/学生之间的合作; 2）根据当地地质资源生成高中地球科学课程材料，提供STEM教育机会，同时也介绍了地球科学的潜在职业道路; 3）创建一个服务学习课程，将配对本科生的“地球科学大使”与利用新开发的课程材料的高中班级;和4）从事高度积极的高中学生，高中教师，和UNLV本科生在高调，当地相关的科学研究问题的方式，利用尖端的分析设备在UNLV地球科学系。研讨会的课程内容和材料将与课程专家协商设计，以便它们与教师的需求和解决内华达州科学学术内容标准中概述的概念很好地吻合。由此产生的成果将承担教师和学生参与者，教师和社区的利益，因为该项目展示了如何建立在地方一级的地球科学劳动力。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Improvements to STEM K-12 education and increasing the number and diversity of young people headed into STEM careers have been identified as national priorities. This project seeks to address aspects of both of these priorities in the context of Geoscience education and workforce diversity. The project will encourage high school students including many from historically excluded groups, to become involved in the geosciences or other STEM disciplines by 1) engaging them in lesson plans developed by participating teachers to explain the local landscape and natural environment in which they live, 2) offering them opportunities to participate in geoscience research projects at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and 3) by building personal connections between students and faculty at UNLV. To facilitate interactions with high school students PIs will build long term relationships with high school earth science teachers by hosting summer workshops in which teachers will be provided with information about the local geology and natural environment and assist them in creating lesson plans for their classrooms. The activities will build up to a culminating experience where the teachers and high school students have an opportunity to claim their own identity as budding geoscientists. This project will encourage high school students including many from historically excluded groups to become involved in the geosciences or other STEM disciplines. The program will strengthen the relationship between the University of Nevada (UNLV) and the local community, including the local school district. Project objectives will be accomplished through a comprehensive program that will include: 1) building a professional earth science learning community to facilitate collaboration between local high school teachers and UNLV faculty/students; 2) generating high school earth science curriculum materials based on the local geologic resources that will provide STEM education opportunities while also introducing potential career paths in the earth sciences; 3) creating a service learning course that will pair undergraduate ‘geoscience ambassadors’ with high school classes that are utilizing the newly developed curriculum materials; and 4) engaging highly motivated high school students, high school teachers, and UNLV undergraduate students in high profile, locally relevant scientific research questions in a way that leverages cutting edge analytical equipment in the UNLV Geoscience Department. The workshop curriculum content and materials will be designed in consultation with curriculum experts so that they mesh well with the teachers’ needs and address concepts outlined in the Nevada Academic Content Standards for Science. Resultant outcomes will bear benefits to teacher and student participants, faculty and the community as the project demonstrates how to build the geoscience workforce at the local level.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.