High Adventure Science: Earths Systems and Sustainability

高探险科学：地球系统和可持续性

• 批准号: 1220756
• 负责人: Amy Pallant
• 金额: $ 232.86万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1220756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Adventure; Science; Earths; Systems; Sustainability

We have entered the Anthropocene, an age when the actions of seven billion humans have increasing influence on the Earth. The High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability project is developing modules for middle school and high school students in Earth and Space Science classes, testing the hypothesis that students who use computational models, analyze real-world data, and engage in building scientific reasoning and argumentation skills are better able to understand Earth science core ideas and how humans impact Earth's systems. The Concord Consortium in partnership with the University of California Santa Cruz and the National Geographic Society are co-developing these modules, conducting targeted research on how the modules enhance students' higher order thinking skills and understanding of human-Earth interactions, and broadly disseminating these materials via far-reaching education networks.The High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability project is creating online, middle and high school curriculum modules that feature computational models and cover five topics: climate change, fresh water availability, fossil fuel utilization, resource sustainability, and land use management. At the same time, the project team is conducting design studies to look at how specific features, prompts, argumentation and evaluation tools built into the modules affect student understanding of core Earth science concepts. The design studies promote rapid, iterative module development and help to identify features that support student learning, as well as scientific reasoning, scientific argumentation with uncertainty, systems thinking, and model-based experimentation skills. For each module, pre- and posttest data, embedded assessments, student surveys, classroom observations, teacher interviews and surveys, provide important information to rapidly improve module features, content, and usability. The final, high-quality, project materials are being made available to a national audience through the National Geographic Society as well as through the High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability website hosted at the Concord Consortium. It is essential that students graduate from high school with a solid understanding of the scientific concepts that help explain how humans impact Earth systems, and conversely, how Earth processes impact humans. The High-Adventure Science: Earth Systems and Sustainability project provides a unique, research-based approach to conveying to students core Earth science content, crosscutting concepts, and fundamental practices of science. The resulting online curriculum modules and teacher guides provide exciting examples of next generation Earth science teaching and learning materials, and the research findings provide new insights on how students learn core science concepts and gain critical scientific skills.

我们已经进入人类世，在这个时代，70 亿人类的行为对地球的影响越来越大。高冒险科学：地球系统和可持续性项目正在为中学生和高中生开发地球和空间科学课程的模块，测试学生使用计算模型、分析现实世界数据并参与建立科学推理的假设和论证技巧能够更好地理解地球科学的核心思想以及人类如何影响地球系统。协和联盟与加州大学圣克鲁斯分校和国家地理学会合作，共同开发这些模块，针对这些模块如何增强学生的高阶思维能力和对人地相互作用的理解进行有针对性的研究，并广泛传播这些模块高冒险科学：地球系统和可持续性项目正在创建在线、初中和高中课程模块，这些模块以计算模型为特色，涵盖五个主题：气候变化、淡水可用性、化石燃料利用、资源可持续性和土地使用管理。与此同时，项目团队正在进行设计研究，以了解模块中内置的具体功能、提示、论证和评估工具如何影响学生对核心地球科学概念的理解。设计研究促进快速、迭代的模块开发，并帮助确定支持学生学习的特征，以及科学推理、不确定性的科学论证、系统思维和基于模型的实验技能。对于每个模块，测试前和测试后数据、嵌入式评估、学生调查、课堂观察、教师访谈和调查提供重要信息，以快速改进模块功能、内容和可用性。最终的高质量项目材料将通过国家地理学会以及康科德联盟主办的高难度科学：地球系统和可持续发展网站向全国观众提供。高中毕业后，学生必须对科学概念有充分的理解，这些概念有助于解释人类如何影响地球系统，以及反过来，地球过程如何影响人类。高冒险科学：地球系统和可持续性项目提供了一种独特的、基于研究的方法，向学生传达核心地球科学内容、交叉概念和科学的基本实践。由此产生的在线课程模块和教师指南提供了下一代地球科学教学和学习材料的令人兴奋的示例，研究结果为学生如何学习核心科学概念和获得关键科学技能提供了新的见解。