NIMHD Science Education Initiative: K-12 Science Education Initiative

摘要 构筑少数民族群众科学兴趣引进和提高渠道 代表不足的学生 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 科学和工程领域的学位比他们在人口中所占的比例更大。还没有 少数族裔的孩子似乎比他们的白人对科学更感兴趣 对口单位。因此，我们必须假设在孩子们的 这并不能加强他们早年对科学的兴趣。为了补救这一点， 我们建议开发一门新课程，教育和促进青年科学 (简单的1-2-3)，当完全发展时，将从幼儿园开始并将继续 通过12年级来激发孩子们对科学的兴趣。课程设置将是 多媒体，使用有趣，娱乐性和趣味性。它还将专注于一个特定的领域 有趣的是，人体，一些学生可以与之相关的东西。我们的目标是从 将我们的课程介绍给12所学校，从6年级到10年级，在四个国家 市场：洛杉矶巴吞鲁日，那里的学校是种族混杂的；加利福尼亚州洛杉矶，那里 拉美裔学生占大多数；洛杉矶的新奥尔良，那里的学校 种族混杂，但非裔美国人占少数；在俄克拉何马州 俄克拉何马州的城市，那里的学校是种族混合的，但也有相当大的比例 美国印第安人儿童。我们计划将我们的课程预先试用给每人五名学生。 在每个市场的学校，解决这段时间内的任何问题，然后将其试点到10 每个市场的每所学校的学生人数。在项目的第三年结束时，我们计划 向所有小学、初中和高中的儿童全面推广课程 年龄组，每所学校最多选择30名学生，如果有兴趣，将其开放给 不同的学校。这项研究的次要部分是提供以下材料 补充学生得到的关于人类健康的东西给学生的家庭 以及社区的成员。我们的目标是确定这门课程是否会增加 学生对科学的兴趣，从他们在#年参与科学项目可以看出 课堂上，增加与家庭和社区成员关于科学的讨论， 归根结底，他们追求科学事业的决定。

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.