GP-IN: Empowering Appalachian Students through the Exploring Geosciences Solutions (EGeoS) Curriculum and the Appalachian Geoscience Learning Ecosystem (AGLE)

GP-IN：通过探索地球科学解决方案 (EGeoS) 课程和阿巴拉契亚地球科学学习生态系统 (AGLE) 为阿巴拉契亚学生提供支持

• 批准号: 2240675
• 负责人: Amy Weislogel
• 金额: $ 40.92万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2240675&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GP; Empowering; Appalachian; Students; through

Emerging “green” economic sectors that address climate change impacts and the energy transition require a workforce with environmental and geoscience post-secondary training; however, systemic barriers exist that prevent equitable access to this training. In particular, these barriers tend to exclude first-generation college students from historically underrepresented identities. As a means to facilitate equitable access to green geoscience career fields, this project aims to establish an Appalachian Geoscience Learning Ecosystem (AGLE) that will support Appalachian high school science students of all identities and backgrounds in their path to acquiring necessary post-secondary environmental and geoscience training. Central to attracting high school students to the AGLE is the Exploring Geosciences Solutions (EGeoS) Curriculum that will be aligned to a variety of West Virginia Next Generation Science high school science standards including Earth and Space Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Physical Science. Environmental and geoscience careers are high-paying occupations that require a postsecondary STEM degree, and achieving social justice requires deliberate interventions to orient and support students in the training these occupations will require. The goals of this project are to: 1) provide experiences that help pre-college students transition more successfully into undergraduate geoscience programs; 2) create mechanisms to engage upper-level high school students in experiences that demonstrate the geosciences as a viable career path; and 3) provide experiences for teachers to gain geoscience content for use in the classroom. The team plans to implement the project in several ways, including analyzing knowledge gains by participants and providing climate related research opportunities and measuring impacts of those experiences on career choice.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.

应对气候变化影响的新兴“绿色”经济部门以及能源过渡需要通过环境和地球科学后训练的劳动力；但是，存在全身性障碍，可防止公平接受此培训。特别是，这些障碍倾向于将第一代大学的学生排除在历史上代表性不足的身份之外。为了促进公平地获得绿色地球科学职业领域的一种手段，该项目旨在建立一个阿巴拉契亚地球科学学习生态系统（AGLE），该组织将支持阿巴拉契亚高中科学专业的所有身份和背景的学生，以获取必要的后上级环境和地球科学培训。吸引高中生进入AGLE的核心是探索地球科学解决方案（EGEO）课程，该课程将与各种西弗吉尼亚州的下一代科学高中科学标准（包括地球和太空科学，生物学，化学，物理学和物理科学）保持一致。环境和地球科学的职业是需要高等教育学位的高薪职业，并且实现社会正义需要故意干预这些职业的培训中的学生和支持学生。该项目的目标是：1）提供经验，以帮助预科学生更成功地过渡到大学生地球科学计划； 2）创建机制，使高中生参与经验，以表明地球科学作为可行的职业道路； 3）为教师提供了在课堂上使用地球科学内容的经验。该团队计划以多种方式实施该项目，包括分析参与者的知识收益，并提供与气候相关的研究机会，并衡量这些经验对职业选择的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来诚实地对支持进行评估。