The Big Sky Brain Project

大天空大脑计划

• 批准号: 8328909
• 负责人: MICHAEL PATRICK KAVANAUGH
• 金额: $ 26.3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8328909
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goals of the The Big Sky Brain Project are to increase the neuroscience literacy of tens of thousands of Montana K-12 students and to enhance their opportunities for careers in the STEM field. Montana - with its vast and predominantly rural landscape, high rates of poverty, and large Native American population - requires novel science education approaches that are appropriate to the unique geographical, financial, and cultural challenges of the state. The Big Sky Brain Project team is made up of state and national leaders in the fields of neuroscience, science education, and Montana Indian education. In order to be responsive to these unique regional factors while providing a rigorous educational experience, the University of Montana's Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience and the spectrUM Discovery Area, the University's hands-on science museum, will collaborate with the Exploratorium to create a world-class neuroscience exhibition called the Brainzone. This exhibition will be housed in the new spectrUM Discovery Area, which will open in late autumn 2011 in a major regional shopping mall near the University. In a state with a population of less than a million, Southgate Mall has seven million annual visits - more than double the number of Montana's Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks combined. The Brainzone will be an integral part of spectrUM's popular field trip program for local K-12 students and will also be used in its mobile science program, which brings hands-on exhibits to isolated, underserved rural and tribal K-12 schools. The Brainzone will feature four exhibits and a computer learning lab to implement grade-specific curricula centered on neuroscience core themes ranging from gross neuroanatomy to cellular neurophysiology to learning and memory. Unlike similar educational exhibitions, the Brainzone will also include a working laboratory, called the BrainLab, that will house research-grade EEG instrumentation and a wet lab for Drosophila melanogaster neurobiology. The BrainLab, which will be in full public view, will be staffed by a graduate-level lab manager, and it will be utilized for K-12 student research demonstrations as well as by researchers ranging from high school interns to K-12 teachers to neuroscience faculty and clinicians from the University of Montana and Community Hospital in Missoula. In partnership with the Missoula County Public Schools, the Brainzone will host field trips for K-12 students to participate in grade-specific hands-on neuroscience exhibits and bench research. At other times it will be open to the public. In the final two years of the five-year project, the Brainzone exhibition will travel with spectrUM's mobile science program to bring core neuroscience curriculum to thousands of K-12 students living throughout Montana including those in isolated rural and tribal communities. Beyond the five-year duration of the grant, committed institutional support from the University, the Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience, and spectrUM will ensure the long-term value, care, and use of these unique educational resources.

描述（由申请人提供）：大天空项目的总体目标是提高成千上万蒙大拿州K-12学生的神经科学素养，并增强他们在STEM领域的职业机会。蒙大拿州（蒙大拿州）以其巨大而主要的农村景观，高贫困率和大型美洲原住民的景观，需要新颖的科学教育方法，这些方法适合于该州独特的地理，财务和文化挑战。 Big Sky Brain项目团队由神经科学，科学教育和蒙大拿州印度教育领域的州和国家领导人组成。为了对这些独特的区域因素做出反应，同时提供了严格的教育经验，蒙大拿大学的结构和功能性神经科学中心以及Spectrum Discovery地区，该大学的动手科学博物馆将与Exploratorium合作创建世界一流的神经科学展览，称为Brainzone。该展览将安置在新的Spectrum Discovery地区，该地区将于2011年秋末在大学附近的一个主要地区购物中心开业。在人口不到一百万的州，索斯盖特购物中心每年有700万次访问，是蒙大拿州冰川和黄石国家公园的两倍以上。 Brainzone将是Spectrum为本地K-12学生流行的实地考察计划不可或缺的一部分，还将在其移动科学计划中使用，该计划将动手展览带到孤立的，服务不足的农村和部落K-12学校中。 BrainZone将设有四个展览和一个计算机学习实验室，以实施以神经科学核心主题为中心的特定年级课程，从总体神经解剖学到细胞神经生理学再到学习和记忆。与类似的教育展览不同，Brainzone还将包括一个名为Brainlab的工作实验室，该实验室将容纳研究级的EEG仪器和果蝇Melanogaster神经生物学的湿实验室。 Brainlab将全面公开，将由研究生级实验室经理组成，它将用于K-12学生研究示范，以及从高中实习生到K-12教师到神经科学教师，以及蒙大拿州大学和密苏里州社区医院的临床医生的研究人员。与米苏拉县公立学校合作，Brainzone将举办K-12学生的实地考察，以参加特定年级的动手神经科学展览和替补席研究。在其他时候，它将向公众开放。在这个五年项目的最后两年中，BrainZone展览将与Spectrum的移动科学计划一起旅行，以将核心神经科学课程带给数千名居住在蒙大拿州的K-12学生，包括孤立的农村和部落社区。除了赠款的五年持续时间之外，大学的机构支持，结构和功能性神经科学中心以及频谱将确保这些独特的教育资源的长期价值，关心和使用。