Watershed Awareness using Technology and Environmental Research for Sustainability (WATERS)

利用可持续发展技术和环境研究提高流域意识 (WATERS)

• 批准号: 1850051
• 负责人: Carolyn Staudt
• 金额: $ 120.95万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1850051&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Watershed; Awareness; using; Technology; Environmental

This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase student motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) by developing and testing a middle school science curriculum focusing on water and water-related career awareness. Diverse middle school students across three regions of the United States will become engaged in project-based learning that includes hands-on geospatial analysis and use of national and local data to explore local watershed issues. The project will apply principles from Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to create an effective, scalable approach to water learning open to all students. By providing flexibility in information presentation and student responses, reducing barriers in instruction, and providing appropriate supports and challenges, the project will increase access to curricula and approaches having the potential to greatly increase awareness of and engagement with water concepts and career pathways in learners nationwide. In conjunction with the new curriculum, the project will produce a classroom observation instrument that teachers can use to assess student engagement, use of UDL supports, time on task, and content understanding during inquiry instruction. The goal of this project is to develop and test a student-centered, universally accessible middle school curriculum for learning water concepts and promoting water career awareness. To accomplish this goal, the project will develop and implement a 12-session curriculum unit that will engage students in use of Geographic Information System (GIS) applications and modeling based on data collection within local watersheds, use UDL technologies to broaden inclusivity among learners, and engage nine experienced pilot teachers in co-designing and iteratively improving the curriculum over the three-year development period. A quasi-experimental, experimental/comparison group research design will be used to to answer the following research questions: 1. How does engagement in an inquiry project-based middle school watershed curriculum relate to students' confidence and efficacy in STEM subjects, 21st century learning skills, and interest in STEM careers? And 2. How does UDL support all learners (students who are intellectually gifted, students learning the English language, students who are economically disadvantaged, or students with disabilities) of an inquiry project-based middle school watershed curriculum? Middle school science teachers and their students will be recruited from California, Pennsylvania, and Virginia to participate in the project. Three teachers from each state will be recruited to pilot the curriculum in Year 1 and provide feedback to the curriculum team to inform curriculum and research revisions. The learning objectives and activities will be the same for both the experimental and comparison groups, but the comparison group curriculum will not include the UDL technologiesThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将促进学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术经验的努力，以更好地理解和促进实践，从而提高学生的动机和能力，从而通过发展和发展科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）从事职业。测试一项针对水和与水有关的职业意识的中学科学课程。美国三个地区的多元中学学生将参与基于项目的学习，其中包括动手的地理空间分析以及使用国家和地方数据来探索当地分水岭问题。该项目将采用通用设计（UDL）的原则，以创建一种有效的，可扩展的水学习方法，以向所有学生开放。通过在信息表现和学生的回应中提供灵活性，减少教学的障碍以及提供适当的支持和挑战，该项目将增加获得课程的访问，并有可能极大地提高人们对全国学习者的认识和参与水的认识和参与职业途径。与新课程结合使用，该项目将生产一种课堂观察工具，教师可以用来评估学生参与度，使用UDL支持，任务时间以及在查询教学期间的内容理解。该项目的目的是开发和测试以学生为中心的，普遍访问的中学课程，以学习水概念并提高水职业意识。为了实现这一目标，该项目将开发和实施一个12条课程的课程单元，该课程将吸引学生使用地理信息系统（GIS）应用程序（GIS）应用程序（GIS）应用程序和基于本地流域内数据收集的建模，请使用UDL Technologies扩大学习者的包容性，并让九位经验丰富的飞行员教师在三年的发展期间共同设计并迭代地改善课程。 准实验，实验/比较小组研究设计将用于回答以下研究问题：1。基于项目的中学中学分水岭课程与学生对21世纪STEM学科的信心和功效有关，如何参与到21世纪学习技能和对STEM职业的兴趣？ 2。中学科学老师及其学生将从加利福尼亚，宾夕法尼亚州和弗吉尼亚州招募参加该项目。每个州的三名教师将被招募，以在第1年进行课程，并向课程团队提供反馈，以告知课程和研究修订。实验组和比较组的学习目标和活动将相同，但是比较组课程将不包括UDL TechnologiestHis奖，反映了NSF的法定任务，并且被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来评估。审查标准。