Strategies: Water SCIENCE: Supporting Collaborative Inquiry, Engineering, and Career Exploration with Water

策略：水科学：支持水的协作探究、工程和职业探索

• 批准号: 1433761
• 负责人: Carolyn Staudt
• 金额: $ 119.96万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1433761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategies; Water; SCIENCE; Supporting; Collaborative

As part of an overall strategy to develop understandings of best practice factors, contexts and processes contributing to K-12 students' motivation and participation in STEM, the ITEST Program funds foundational and applied research projects that build student awareness of STEM and STEM-related careers. This ITEST Strategies project, Supporting Collaborative Inquiry, Engineering, and Career Exploration with Water (Water SCIENCE), engages middle school students in project-based learning around their community's water resources. Through the innovative use of technology the project enables data sharing among schools in different parts of the country and provides a forum for the development of a professional learning community for teachers. The project turns tablet computers now found in secondary schools into mobile science labs, harnessing the built-in cameras for chemical and visual analysis of water samples.A total of 30 middle school science teachers from diverse districts in southern Arizona, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Eastern Massachusetts are participating serving more than 2000 middle school students over the three-year project. Students will use an innovative mobile lab to perform water quality analysis and aggregate the results on an existing data sharing platform. In consultation with university mentors and stem professionals, students design and conduct classroom engineering projects that model real-world technologies for improving water quality. Virtual mentoring sessions provide opportunities for students to ask questions of STEM professionals and learn about careers in environmental science and conservation. As a culminating experience students engage in a role-playing exercise involving a simulated water emergency. Teachers will receive over 40 hours of professional development as well as a classroom set of hands-on science and engineering materials undergraduate and graduate students will participate as mentors. A systematic investigation of the impact of integrating purposefully designed inquiry, engineering, and career orientation activities into science instruction at the middle school level will be conducted. Student outcomes explored include stem career awareness and interests, stem content knowledge, and the development of supportive mentoring relationships with university students and stem professionals. Comprehensive data will be collected using a variety of research instruments and analyzed both statistically and qualitatively.This project team is comprised of specialists in K-12 curriculum and educational technology development (Concord Consortium), environmental sustainability (Arizona State University), freshwater science and conservation (Stroud Water Resource Center), and hands-on engineering education (Machine Science, Inc.). The Water SCIENCE project helps advance NSF's goal of broadening participation and diversifying the STEM workforce.

作为对最佳实践因素，背景和过程的理解的总体战略的一部分。这个ITEST策略项目，支持与水科学（水科学）的合作探究，工程和职业探索，使中学生围绕社区的水资源进行基于项目的学习。通过技术的创新使用，该项目可以在该国不同地区的学校之间进行数据共享，并为教师开发专业学习社区提供了论坛。该项目将现在在中学中发现的平板电脑变成移动科学实验室，利用内置摄像机进行水样的化学和视觉分析。总共30位来自亚利桑那州南部，宾夕法尼亚州和东部地区的不同地区的中学科学教师总计马萨诸塞州正在为期三年的项目为2000多名中学生提供服务。学生将使用创新的移动实验室进行水质分析，并在现有数据共享平台上汇总结果。在与大学导师和STEM专业人士协商时，学生设计和进行课堂工程项目，以建模现实世界的技术以改善水质。虚拟指导会议为学生提供了询问STEM专业人士问题并了解环境科学和保护职业的机会。作为最终的经验，学生从事涉及模拟水紧急情况的角色扮演练习。教师将获得40多个小时的专业发展，以及一套动手科学和工程材料的本科生和研究生将担任导师。将对在中学一级进行有目的设计的探究，工程和职业定位活动的影响进行系统调查。探索的学生成果包括STEM职业意识和兴趣，STEM内容知识以及与大学生和STEM专业人员的支持性指导关系的发展。将使用各种研究工具收集全面数据，并在统计学上和定性上进行分析。该项目团队由K-12课程和教育技术发展（Concord Consortium），环境可持续性（亚利桑那州立大学），淡水科学和淡水科学和淡水科学和保护（Stroud水资源中心）和动手工程教育（Machine Science，Inc。）。水科学项目有助于促进NSF扩大参与和多样化STEM劳动力的目标。