NIMHD Science Education Initiative: K-12 Science Education Initiative

摘要 建立一个管道，介绍和提高少数民族和少数民族对科学的兴趣， 弱势学生 除亚裔美国人外，少数族裔的学士、硕士和博士学位收入较少 科学和工程领域学位的比例高于其在人口中的比例。然而 少数民族的孩子似乎比他们的白色孩子对科学更感兴趣。 同行因此，我们必须假设在孩子们的 这并不能加强他们早期对科学的兴趣。为了补救这一点， 我们建议开发一个新的课程，教育和促进青年科学 (EASY 1-2-3），当充分发展，将开始开始在幼儿园，并将继续 通过12年级，激发孩子们对科学的兴趣。课程将是 多媒体，使用乐趣，娱乐性和趣味性。它还将集中在一个特定的领域 感兴趣的，人体，一些学生可以联系的东西。我们的目标是开始 将我们的课程介绍给12所学校，从6 - 10年级开始，在四个国家 市场：巴吞鲁日，洛杉矶，那里的学校是种族混合的;洛杉矶，加利福尼亚州，那里 拉美裔学生占学生的大多数;新奥尔良，洛杉矶，那里的学校 种族混杂，但非洲裔美国人占少数;在俄克拉荷马州， 城市，确定，那里的学校是种族混合，但也包括一个很大的比例 美国印第安儿童。我们计划预试点我们的课程，以五个学生每 在每个市场建立学校，在此期间解决任何问题，然后试点到10个 每个市场的每个学校的学生。在项目的第三年年底，我们计划 向所有小学、初中和高中的孩子们全面推出课程， 年龄组，选择多达30名学生每所学校，如果有兴趣，开放给 不同的学校这项研究的第二部分是提供材料， 补充什么学生收到对人体健康的学生的家庭 和社区成员。我们的目标是确定这个课程是否会增加 学生对科学的兴趣，如他们在科学项目的参与， 课堂上，增加了与家庭和社区成员关于科学的讨论， 最终，他们决定追求科学事业。

Abstract Building a Pipeline for Introducing and Increasing Interest in Science for Minority and Underrepresented Students Minorities, other than Asian Americans, earn fewer bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in science and engineering fields than their proportion in the population. Yet minority children seem to be even more interested in science than their white counterparts. Thus, we must assume that something happens during the children's formative years that does not reinforce their early interest in science. To remedy this, we propose to develop a new curriculum, Educating and Advancing Science in Youth (EASY 1-2-3), that, when fully developed, will begin in kindergarten and will continue through 12th grade to stimulate children's interest in science. The curriculum will be multimedia, fun to use, entertaining and interesting. It also will focus on a particular area of interest, the human body, something to which students can relate. Our aim is to start introducing our curriculum to 12 schools, beginning with 6th-10th grades, in four national markets: Baton Rouge, LA, where schools are racially mixed; Los Angeles, CA, where Hispanics make up the majority of students; New Orleans, LA, where schools are racially mixed but there is a small predominance of African Americans; and in Oklahoma City, OK, where the schools are racially mixed, but also include a significant proportion of American Indian children. We plan to pre-pilot our curriculum to five students per school in each market, work out any problems during this period, then pilot it to 10 students per school in each market. At the end of the third year of the project, we plan to do a full rollout of the curriculum to children at all elementary, middle and high school age groups, select as many as 30 students per school, and, if there is interest, open it to different schools. A secondary part of the study is to offer material that is complementary to what the students receive on human health to the students' families and members of the communities. Our goal is to determine if this curriculum increases student interest in science, as indicated by their participation in science projects in class, increased discussions with family and community members about science and, ultimately, their decision to pursue a scientific career.