YouthQuake: Engaging urban students in a computational geology experience to forecast earthquake hazards and manage risks for their community

YouthQuake：让城市学生参与计算地质学体验，以预测地震灾害并管理社区风险

• 批准号: 2241021
• 负责人: Amy Pallant
• 金额: $ 129.82万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: YouthQuake; Engaging; urban; students; computational

This project will contribute to the Earth science education community's understanding of how engaging students with computational activities and prioritizing their knowledge, personal experiences, and community values can broaden the participation of diverse students in geoscience. The YouthQuake project will engage Hispanic and African American middle school students in Stockton, California, in authentic investigations of their community's earthquake hazards, risks, and preparedness using practices of professional geoscientists. Through a partnership among teachers, geoscientists, educational researchers, technology and curriculum developers, and a workforce and diversity specialist, the project will co-design a four-week computational geoscience curriculum. Students will (1) explore their community's likelihood of experiencing a damaging earthquake, (2) determine their community's current policies and resources for earthquake preparedness, (3) investigate what causes earthquakes based on real-world data and computational models of land motion along faults, and (4) create earthquake hazard maps using an intuitive block-based programming environment that imports seismic data and generates map-based visualization outputs. The project plans to work with 10 middle school teachers and approximately 1,120 middle school students. The findings will generate evidence-based teaching strategies that promote students' understanding of earthquake hazards, risk, and mitigation as well as their computational geoscience identities and career awareness. The materials generated through design and development will be made available for free to all future learners, teachers, and researchers beyond the participants outlined in the project.The goal of the YouthQuake project is to engage Hispanic and African American middle school students in Stockton, California, in authentic computational geoscience investigations of earthquake hazards in order to increase their interest in, and identity with, computational geoscience careers. A multidisciplinary partnership among YouthQuake teachers, geoscientists, educational researchers, technology and curriculum developers, and a workforce and diversity specialist will co-design a four-week computational geoscience curriculum. The curriculum activities will be situated in the local community context so students can: 1) explore their neighborhood's likelihood of experiencing a damaging earthquake and related preparedness, 2) investigate GPS data and use computational models of land motion along the faults around their community, and 3) create computational visualizations of earthquake hazard maps. Two cycles of design‐based research will be conducted to develop the YouthQuake curriculum and assessment materials. A mixed-methods research design will be applied to analyze pre-post tests, surveys, embedded assessments, and whole class and student videos. Project research will generate knowledge about curriculum design and teaching strategies that promote students' engagement with computation-mediated science practices as well as computational geoscience identity and career interests. Several equity strategies will be investigated, including: (1) using contextual scaffolds to help students bridge real-world problems with their diverse forms of science knowledge and experiences, (2) engaging students in authentic investigations and practices of career professionals, (3) building on students' cultural assets and strengths derived by belonging to different communities, and (4) empowering students to become epistemic agents in shaping their knowledge and practice. The outcomes of the project will include evidence-based knowledge and an exemplary student technology experience that addresses these equity strategies.This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers. This project is also funded by the Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12), which seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of STEM by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools.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.

该项目将有助于地球科学教育界了解如何让学生参与计算活动并优先考虑他们的知识、个人经历和社区价值观，从而扩大多元化学生对地球科学的参与。YouthQuake 项目将吸引西班牙裔和非裔美国人。加利福尼亚州斯托克顿的中学生利用专业地球科学家的实践，通过教师、地球科学家、教育研究人员、技术和课程开发人员以及劳动力和多样性专家之间的合作，对社区的地震危害、风险和防备进行了真实的调查。这该项目将共同设计为期四周的计算地球科学课程，学生将 (1) 探索其社区遭受破坏性地震的可能性，(2) 确定其社区当前的地震防备政策和资源，(3) 根据地震的原因调查地震的原因。 (4) 使用直观的基于块的编程环境创建地震灾害地图，该环境导入地震数据并生成基于地图的可视化输出。该项目计划与 10 个中间点一起工作。学校研究结果将产生基于证据的教学策略，促进学生对地震灾害、风险和缓解措施的理解，以及他们的计算地球科学身份和职业意识。免费提供给项目中概述的参与者之外的所有未来的学习者、教师和研究人员。YouthQuake 项目的目标是让加利福尼亚州斯托克顿的西班牙裔和非裔美国中学生参与地震危害的真实计算地球科学研究为了增加他们的兴趣YouthQuake 教师、地球科学家、教育研究人员、技术和课程开发人员以及劳动力和多样性专家将共同设计为期 4 周的计算地球科学课程。位于当地社区环境中，以便学生能够：1) 探索其社区遭受破坏性地震的可能性以及相关准备工作，2) 研究 GPS 数据并使用社区周围断层沿线的地面运动计算模型，以及 3) 创建计算可视化地震的将进行两个基于设计的研究周期来开发 YouthQuake 课程和评估材料，并将采用混合方法研究设计来分析课前测试、调查、嵌入式评估以及全班和学生视频。项目研究将产生有关课程设计和教学策略的知识，促进学生参与计算介导的科学实践以及计算地球科学身份和职业兴趣，包括：（1）使用情境支架来帮助学生。将现实世界的问题与不同形式的科学联系起来知识和经验，(2) 让学生参与职业专业人员的真实调查和实践，(3) 建立学生的文化资产和因属于不同社区而获得的优势，(4) 使学生成为塑造知识的认知主体该项目的成果将包括基于证据的知识和解决这些公平策略的示范性学生技术体验。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验 (ITEST) 计划资助，该计划支持建立理解的项目。实践、计划要素、背景和有助于提高学生对科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 以及信息和通信技术 (ICT) 职业的知识和兴趣的过程。该项目还由 Discovery Research preK-12 计划 (DRK-12) 资助。该项目旨在通过创新资源、模型和工具的研究和开发，显着增强学前班至 12 年级学生和教师的 STEM 学习和教学。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。