GENES AND MICROBES: NGSS-ALIGNED CURRICULA FOR SECONDARY SCIENCE

基因和微生物：符合 NGSS 的中学科学课程

• 批准号: 10401201
• 负责人: LOUISA A STARK
• 金额: $ 5.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10401201
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As COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available, vaccine hesitancy is rapidly becoming one of the major barriers to achieving herd immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the US population. Lack of accurate scientific information is one of the multiple factors contributing to this hesitancy. To address this need, the Genetic Science Learning Center (GSLC) at the University of Utah will utilize its award-winning expertise in developing effective, multimedia-rich curriculum materials to produce three lessons for grade 9 and 10 high school biology students. The lessons will build on and extend a curriculum unit that the GSLC produced for the SEPA-funded Genes and Microbes: Engaging Students and Teachers in NGSS-Aligned Curricula and Professional Development project. The goals for this supplement are to: GOAL 1: Educate secondary-level students about the impacts of genes and microbes on health and disease so they can contribute to choices related to their health in an informed way. Approach: Develop three NGSS-aligned lessons on mRNA vaccines for grade 9-10 high school biology students. The lessons will build on content in the Exploring Genetics Through Genetic Disorders unit, that the GSLC developed and tested for the parent project. After learning how mRNA vaccines work, students will explore factors that can influence an individual’s vaccine confidence level. Finally, they will develop and deploy social media campaigns designed to educate the adults who care for them, peers and/or members of their community on mRNA vaccines and increase vaccine confidence. We will conduct a within-subjects, mixed methods research study to evaluate the efficacy and impact of the supplemental lessons, using validated instruments. GOAL 2: Prepare teachers to use the lessons through an online professional development course and at least two workshops. Approach: The new lessons will be included in an online course that is taught annually for teachers and will be presented in a workshop at a national science teacher conference and in at least one virtual workshop. To further disseminate the new lessons, we will promote them to our email list of >20,000 educators worldwide and via our Twitter account, and publish a paper in a high school science teacher journal. The new lessons will be freely available on our Learn.Genetics and Teach.Genetics websites which annually receive >14 million visits and >40 million page views, coming from virtually every country in the world. Thus, the new lessons will be broadly disseminated, increasing their reach and use. The project will take full advantage of the GSLC’s synergistic expertise in curriculum development and instructional design, teacher professional development, and research and evaluation. It will build on our 26 years of experience in producing highly effective educational materials for students and the public, and in holding effective teacher professional development programs.

随着COVID-19疫苗变得越来越广泛，疫苗犹豫迅速成为其中之一 在美国人口中获得对SARS-COV-2病毒的牛群免疫的主要障碍。缺乏准确 科学信息是导致这种犹豫的多种因素之一。为了满足这一需求， 犹他大学的遗传科学学习中心（GSLC）将利用其屡获殊荣的专业知识 开发有效的多媒体课程材料，以为9年级和10年级提供三个课程 学校生物学学生。这些课程将建立并延长GSLC为该课程产生的课程单元 SEPA资助的基因和微生物：与NGSS协调课程的学生和老师参与 专业发展项目。该补充的目标是： 目标1：教育二级学生有关基因和微生物对健康和 疾病，因此他们可以以知情的方式为与健康相关的选择做出贡献。方法：发展 三个NGSS在9-10年级生物学学生的mRNA疫苗上进行了一致的课程。这些课会 GSLC开发和 对父项目进行了测试。在了解mRNA疫苗的工作原理后，学生将探索可以 影响个人的疫苗信心水平。最后，他们将开发和部署社交媒体 旨在教育关心他们的成年人，同龄人和/或社区成员的运动 mRNA疫苗并增加疫苗信心。我们将进行主题内的混合方法研究 使用经过验证的工具来评估补充课程的效率和影响。 目标2：准备老师通过在线专业发展课程使用课程 至少两个讲习班。方法：新课将包括在线课程中 教师的一种方法，将在国家科学教师会议的研讨会上介绍 至少一个虚拟研讨会。 为了进一步传播新课程，我们将把它们推广到我们的电子邮件列表> 20,000名教育工作者列表中 在全球范围内，通过我们的Twitter帐户，并在高中科学老师杂志上发表论文。新的 我们的Learning和Teach.genetics网站每年都会免费提供课程。 > 1400万次访问和> 4000万页的浏览量，几乎来自世界上每个国家。那，新的 课程将广泛传播，从而增加其覆盖范围和使用。 该项目将充分利用GSLC课程开发方面的协同专业知识和 教学设计，教师专业发展以及研究与评估。它将建立在我们26的基础上 多年在为学生和公众生产高效的教育材料方面的经验， 举办有效的教师专业发展计划。