The Lowell Observatory Native American Astronomy Outreach Program: Completing the Kayenta Unified School District collaboration

洛厄尔天文台美洲原住民天文学外展计划：完成凯恩塔联合学区合作

• 批准号: 2025202
• 负责人: Deidre Hunter
• 金额: $ 23万
• 依托单位: Lowell Observatory
• 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: 2020-09-15 至 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lowell; Observatory; Native; American; Astronomy

The project will fund the final year of a partnership in collaboration with 4th-8th grade teachers in the Kayenta Unified School District (KUSD), located in the Navajo Nation of northern Arizona, as part of the Lowell Observatory Navajo-Hopi Astronomy Outreach Program (NAAOP)in the 2020-2021 school year. Teachers are paired with an astronomer/educator from Lowell Observatory who regularly visits the observatory. Star parties are held in partnership with tribal educators who present traditional knowledge, and students visit Lowell Observatory as a culminating experience. In the spring of 2021, the NAAOP and the veteran KUSD teachers will hold a Navajo Nation-wide teacher workshop in order to share the curriculum and perspectives on cultural connections with others.The project will develop, test, and revise an astronomy-centered curriculum unit for each of the 4th-8th grade levels. The curriculum uses Project Based Learning, and is aligned to Arizona, Common Core, Next Generation Science, and Navajo tribal standards. Students are kept together as a cohort over the course of the three-year collaboration, and their interest in STEM and STEM careers is assessed annually through student surveys. Results will be tallied at the end of the project and shared with stakeholders and the education and outreach communities through journals. The results of the teacher workshop will also be shared with the teaching and outreach communities, and the curriculum will be put online in a teacher-friendly package that can be downloaded.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.

该项目将资助与位于2020-2021 - 2021年上学的洛厄尔天文台天文台天文台天文学外展计划（NAAOP）的一部分，与位于北亚利桑那州纳瓦沃国家的Kayenta Unified学区（KUSD）合作的合作伙伴关系的最后一年。老师与洛厄尔天文台的天文学家/教育家配对，后者定期访问天文台。明星派对是与提出传统知识的部落教育者合作举行的，学生们访问洛厄尔天文台，这是一种高潮的经历。在2021年春天，NAAOP和资深的KUSD教师将在全国范围内举办纳瓦霍人的教师研讨会，以分享与他人有关文化联系的课程和观点。该项目将开发，测试和修改一个以天文学的课程为中心的课程单元，以期为4年级的每个年龄4至8年级。该课程使用基于项目的学习，并与亚利桑那州，Common Core，Next Generation Science和Navajo部落标准保持一致。在为期三年的合作过程中，学生将作为队列保持在一起，他们对STEM和STEM职业的兴趣每年通过学生调查评估。结果将在项目结束时衡量，并通过期刊与利益相关者以及教育和外展社区共享。教师研讨会的结果也将与教学和推广社区共享，并且课程将以可以下载的教师友好型套餐将其在线。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

Developing STEM Curriculum Units to Engage 4th-8th Grade Navajo Students as Part of In-Class Outreach

作为课堂外展的一部分，开发 STEM 课程单元以吸引 4 至 8 年级纳瓦霍学生

• DOI: 10.15695/jstem/v6i1.03
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Journal of STEM Outreach
• 作者: Hunter, D.A.;Castagno, A.E.;Gonzales, T.;Tallsalt, V.;Little, A.;Brown, T.;Pipe, M.;Greyeyes, J.;Marsh, E.;Smith, J.
• 通讯作者: Smith, J.