Collaborative Research: BIORETS: Authentic research experiences for teachers at Long-Term Ecological Research sites: climate change and biodiversity across ecosystems

合作研究：BIORETS：为长期生态研究地点的教师提供真实的研究经验：气候变化和跨生态系统的生物多样性

• 批准号: 2147137
• 负责人: Gretchen Hofmann
• 金额: $ 26.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147137&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; BIORETS; Authentic; research

The Authentic Research Experience for Teachers at NSF’s Long Term Ecological Research sites (ARET@LTER) project engages high-school teachers in conducting field and laboratory research focused on the impact of emerging environmental stressors such as floods, droughts, and heat waves, on local biodiversity across diverse ecosystems. Pairs of teachers will be recruited from schools with large populations of students from marginalized groups in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and stationed at each of three LTER research locations. Over an 18-month period, pairs of selected teachers will work with faculty and graduate students to conduct research and compare their experiences with colleagues stationed at other LTER sites through virtual meetings and chats. This cohort approach will allow teachers to support and learn from one another. The three included LTER sites span diverse critical habitat types on Earth including the Arctic (Arctic LTER), temperate montane forests (Andrews LTER), and marine coastal ecosystems (Santa Barbara Coastal LTER). A capstone in-person experience at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis will further expose teachers to the practice, process, and community of today's networked and data-intensive science. Teachers will engage their students in authentic science learning activities based on their RET experience and develop a Data Nugget or similar data product based on their authentic research experience which can be used by any of the RETs in the project as well as across K-12 and undergraduate classrooms through the freely available Data Nuggets website. The goals of the project are to train teachers in the techniques involved in global change ecology, how scientists study and describe the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, and to explore ways for teachers to share this experience and these data with their students. The project is a collaboration between scientists and teachers, with both science and education enriched in the exchange of ideas and practice. The project has the potential for broad reach and impact on teacher practice and student engagement and learning and reaches multiple communities across the U.S. that serve students traditionally underrepresented in STEM. The project’s broader impacts fall into five categories: change in teacher practice; engagement and achievement of students historically excluded in STEM; improved understanding of classroom context for scientists; development of long-term partnerships between teachers and scientists; and development and dissemination of data products at local, regional, and national levels.This project is funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure.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.

NSF的长期生态研究地点（ARET@lter）项目的真正研究经验与高中教师的进行领域和实验室研究，重点介绍了新兴环境压力源的影响，例如地板，干旱和热浪等新生态生物的生物差。将从学校，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的教师中招募成对的教师，并驻扎在三个lter研究地点中的每个地点。在一个18个月的时间里，一对选定的教师将与教职员工和研究生一起进行研究，并通过虚拟会议和聊天来与驻扎在其他卢特站点的同事进行比较。这种队列方法将使教师能够互相支持和学习。这三个包括滴落地点涵盖了地球上潜水员的关键栖息地类型，包括北极（北极葡萄），温度山地森林（Andrews lter）和海洋沿海生态系统（圣塔芭芭拉沿海lter）。国家生态分析与综合中心的顶峰面对面经验将进一步使教师了解当今的网络和数据密集型科学的实践，过程和社区。教师将根据他们的RET经验与学生一起参与真实的科学学习活动，并根据其真实的研究经验开发数据块或类似的数据产品，该研究经验可以通过该项目的任何RET以及在K-12中以及在K-12和本科教室中通过免费的可用数据块网站使用。该项目的目标是培训教师的全球变化生态学技术，科学家如何研究和描述气候变化对生物多样性的影响，并探索教师与学生分享这一经验和这些数据的方式。该项目是科学家与教师之间的合作，科学和教育都丰富了思想和实践的交流。该项目有可能对教师实践以及学生的参与和学习产生广泛的影响力，并吸引了美国各地的多个社区，这些社区为传统上代表人数不足的学生提供服务。该项目的更广泛的影响分为五类：教师实践的变化；历史上排除在STEM中的学生的参与和成就；改善了对科学家的课堂环境的理解；建立教师与科学家之间的长期伙伴关系；该项目由生物科学局，生物基础设施司提供了数据产品的开发和传播。该项目反映了NSF的法定任务，并且我们是否通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估，通过评估来诚实地支持我们的支持。