Collaborative Research: Model My Watershed - Teaching Environmental Sustainability

合作研究：模拟我的分水岭 - 教授环境可持续性

• 批准号: 1417722
• 负责人: Carolyn Staudt
• 金额: $ 104.44万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1417722&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Model; My; Watershed

This project will develop curricula for environmental/geoscience disciplines for high-school classrooms. It will teach a systems approach to problem solving through hands-on activities based on local data and issues. This will provide an opportunity for students to act in their communities while engaging in solving problems they find interesting, and require synthesis of prior learning. The Model My Watershed (MMW) v2 app will bring new environmental datasets and geospatial capabilities into the classroom, to provide a cloud-based learning and analysis platform accessible from a web browser on any computer or mobile device, thus overcoming the cost and technical obstacles to integrating Geographic Information System technology in secondary education. It will also integrate new low-cost environmental sensors that allow students to collect and upload their own data and compare them to data visualized on the new MMW v2. This project will transform the ability of teachers throughout the nation to introduce hands-on geospatial analysis activities in the classroom, to explore a wide range of geographic, social, political and environmental concepts and problems beyond the project's specific curricular focus. The Next Generation Science Standards state that authentic research experiences are necessary to enhance STEM learning. A combination of computational modeling and data collection and analysis will be integrated into this project to address this need. Placing STEM content within a place- and problem-based framework enhances STEM learning. Students, working in groups, will not only design solutions, they will be required to defend them within the application portal through the creation of multimedia products such as videos, articles and web 2.0 presentations. The research plan tests the overall hypothesis that students are much more likely to develop an interest in careers that require systems thinking and/or spatial thinking, such as environmental sciences, if they are provided with problem-based, place-based, hands-on learning experiences using real data, authentic geospatial analysis tools and models, and opportunities to collect their own supporting data. The MMW v2 web app will include a data visualization tool that streams data related to the modeling application. This database will be modified to integrate student data so teachers and students can easily compare their data to data collected by other students and the government and research data. All data will be easily downloadable so that students can increase the use of real data to support the educational exercises. As a complement to the model-based activities, the project partners will design, manufacture, and distribute a low-cost environmental monitoring device, called the Watershed Tracker. This device will allow students to collect real-world data to enhance their understanding of watershed dynamics. Featuring temperature, light, humidity, and soil moisture sensors, the Watershed Tracker will be designed to connect to tablets and smartphones through the audio jack common to all of these devices.

该项目将开发针对高中教室的环境/地球科学学科课程。 它将通过基于本地数据和问题的动手活动来教授系统方法来解决问题。这将为学生提供一个机会，在解决他们发现有趣的问题的同时，在解决自己的社区中行事，并需要综合先前的学习。 我的流域（MMW）V2应用程序的模型将将新的环境数据集和地理空间功能带入课堂，以提供可从任何计算机或移动设备上的网络浏览器访问的基于云的学习和分析平台，从而克服成本和技术障碍将地理信息系统技术整合到中等教育中。 它还将集成新的低成本环境传感器，使学生可以收集和上传自己的数据，并将它们与新的MMW V2可视化数据进行比较。 该项目将改变全国教师在课堂上引入动手地理空间分析活动的能力，以探索广泛的地理，社会，政治和环境概念以及该项目的特定课程重点以外的问题。下一代科学标准指出，真正的研究经验对于增强STEM学习是必要的。计算建模和数据收集和分析的结合将集成到该项目中，以满足这一需求。将STEM内容放置在基于问题和问题的框架中可以增强STEM学习。分组工作的学生不仅将设计解决方案，还需要通过创建视频，文章和Web 2.0演示文稿等多媒体产品来捍卫他们在应用程序门户中。 研究计划检验了总体假设，即学生更有可能对需要系统思考和/或空间思维的职业产生兴趣使用真实数据，真实的地理空间分析工具和模型以及收集自己的支持数据的机会进行学习。 MMW V2 Web应用程序将包括一个数据可视化工具，该工具流式传输与建模应用程序相关的数据。该数据库将进行修改以整合学生数据，以便教师和学生可以轻松地将其数据与其他学生以及政府和研究数据收集的数据进行比较。所有数据都可以轻松下载，以便学生可以增加实际数据的使用来支持教育练习。作为对基于模型的活动的补充，项目合作伙伴将设计，制造和分发一种低成本的环境监测设备，称为流域追踪器。 该设备将允许学生收集现实世界中的数据，以增强他们对流域动态的理解。流域跟踪器具有温度，轻度，湿度和土壤水分传感器，将设计为通过所有这些设备共同的音频插孔连接到平板电脑和智能手机。