GP-IN: SOARING: Sharing Opportunities, Approaches, and Resources in New Geo-teaching

GP-IN：翱翔：分享新地理教学的机会、方法和资源

• 批准号: 2022964
• 负责人: Spencer Clark
• 金额: $ 33.96万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; SOARING; Sharing; Opportunities; Approaches

The Rural Education Center (REC) at Kansas State University and the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas will develop project SOARING: Sharing Opportunities, Approaches, and Resources in New Geo-teaching. The primary goal of Project SOARING is to provide training for secondary (middle and high school) teachers and students on the latest geotechnology for the purpose of increasing students’ desire to pursue geoscience degrees and careers. Specifically, the PIs target geotechnology applications of airborne remote sensing for geological applications. The PIs have partnered with nine school districts in which they have ongoing partnerships and that represent a diverse group of rural schools across central and western Kansas. Most of these schools have significant underrepresented populations, particularly Hispanic/Latinx populations. The KSU REC will be the lead organization, facilitating most of the grant, recruiting the teachers and students to participate in the project activities, providing support to teachers when they are in their classrooms and connecting teachers with the KSU Summer STEM Institute (SSI). The CReSIS at KU will provide content in the geosciences, resources, and instruction regarding the geoscience technology. Underrepresented groups in rural communities face multiple barriers to geoscience careers in comparison to their classmates in urban and suburban schools. With these purposes in mind, the objectives of Project SOARING are to: 1) train rural teachers to engage rural secondary students in geosciences activities and geotechnology; 2) to expose diverse rural secondary students to meaningful geoscience learning experiences; 3) build students’ skills and competency for geoscience degrees and careers; 4) increase the students’ desire to pursue degrees and geoscience-related careers. Rural teachers and their diverse rural students were chosen for this grant because: 1) many rural schools face teacher vacancies in all STEM related fields; 2) rural students typically score lower on STEM assessments; 3) few Earth Science classes are taught in secondary schools, especially in rural schools. The proposal outlines a series of approaches to engage twenty-seven secondary school teachers (9 per year) and potentially over four thousand students with geotechnology and resources. Additionally, the project will seek to recruit participation by female students, Hispanic/Latinx and minority students.This 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.

堪萨斯州立大学的农村教育中心（REC）和堪萨斯大学的冰盖遥感中心（CRESIS）将开发项目飙升：共享新地理教学的机会，方法和资源。项目飙升的主要目标是为二级（中学和高中）教师和学生提供最新的地质技术的培训，以增加学生追求地球科学学位和职业的愿望。具体而言，PIS靶向地质技术对地质应用的遥控性应用。 PIS与九个学区合作，在该地区建立了持续的合作伙伴关系，并代表了堪萨斯州中部和西部的潜水员群体。这些学校中的大多数人口不足，尤其是西班牙裔/拉丁裔人口。 KSU REC将是主要组织，支持大多数赠款，招募教师和学生参加项目活动，并在教师在教室时为教师提供支持，并将教师与KSU Summer Shumm STEM Institute（SSI）联系起来。 KU的Cresis将提供有关地球科学技术的地球科学，资源和说明的内容。与城市和郊区学校的课程相比，农村社区中代表性不足的团体面临着地球科学职业的多个障碍。考虑到这些目的，项目的目标是：1）培训粗糙的教师让农村中学学生参与地球科学活动和地球技术； 2）使潜水员农村中学学生接触有意义的地球科学学习经验； 3）建立学生的技能以及地球科学学位和职业的能力； 4）增加学生攻读学位和与地球科学有关的职业的愿望。农村教师及其多样化的农村学生被选为这笔赠款，因为：1）许多农村学校面对所有与STEM相关的领域的老师； 2）农村学生通常在STEM评估上得分较低； 3）中学，尤其是在农村学校中教过地球科学课。该提案概述了一系列与二十七名中学教师（每年9名）以及有四千多名具有岩土学和资源的学生的方法。此外，该项目将寻求招募女学生，西班牙裔/拉丁裔和少数族裔学生的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被视为通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。