Biology-Environmental Health Science Nexus: Inquiry, Content, and Communication

生物学与环境健康科学的关系：探究、内容和交流

• 批准号: 8308360
• 负责人: DAVID Harold PETERING
• 金额: $ 26.58万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8308360
• 关键词: Alcohols; Area; Asthma; Attention; Back; Behavior; Biological Sciences; Biology; Child Development; Color; Communication; Communication Research; Databases; Development; Education; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Elements; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Foundations; Funding; Gap Junctions; Genetic; Goals; Habits; Health; Heart; Internet; Journals; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Molecular Biology; Motion; National Center for Research Resources; Phase; Program Evaluation; Property; Publications; Publishing; Reporting; Research; Research Project Grants; Rest; School Teachers; Schools; Science; Scientist; Series; Services; Societies; Sorting - Cell Movement; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Technology; Thinking; Ultraviolet Rays; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; Writing; aquatic organism; base; boys; career; college; experience; feeding; girls; high school; innovation; interest; lead exposure; literacy; metropolitan; middle school; ninth grade; programs; public health relevance; research study; science education; skills; social; socioeconomics; success; symposium; teacher; tenth grade

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program, "Biology-Environmental Health Science Nexus: Inquiry, Content, and Communication," focuses on the high school General Science and Biology teachers and students in metropolitan Milwaukee, particularly minority students in the Milwaukee Public School District. Our general objective is to develop the skills of inquiry in teachers and students as the basis for doing and understanding science, particularly in relation to life science and environmental health. This goal takes form in science content recommended by the National Science Education Standards in the areas of genetics, cellular properties, and organismic behavior. These areas are enriched by strong links to environmental health issues of importance to students, including exposure to lead, alcohol, and UV radiation and conditions such as asthma. A series of fully developed and supported experiment modules will be created that can be used to teach ninth grade General Science and tenth grade Biology content. Each involves the use of aquatic organisms as biomedical models and some include macromolecular models and molecular biology experimentation. The Modules set in motion activities that together provide teachers and students with multiple encounters with authentic scientific inquiry. Integrated with the modules in two science courses are student communication about the experiments within and between classes, writing and publishing research communications and reports, and participation in an annual research conference. Teachers gain professional development through workshops, yearly scientific and educational support, evaluation activities and feed-back, and doing program activities that enhance their abilities as scientists and science mentors for their students. In order to accomplish our objective, we have the following specific aims for students: 1. To adapt current middle school Life Science experiment modules for high school General Science. 2. To develop and implement experiment modules for high school Biology that relate to current modules used in middle school Life Science (aim 1) and combine curricular content with environmental health relevance. 3. To develop students' scientific communication skills through written research reports, inter-class internet discussion of results and interpretations, and through convening a yearly student research conference. 4. To engage students (boys and girls) of color from various socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. For teachers to accomplish these aims, other program goals are: 5. To offer yearly summer workshops for teacher professional development (General Science and Biology workshops) in science inquiry, based on the experiment modules. 6. To link teachers with student teachers who have studied the modules in a UW-Milwaukee College of Education course on scientific inquiry. 7. To provide teachers with robust scientific and educational support for the introduction of experiment modules and communication activities into their courses. 8. To include a vigorous national dissemination component to the program. 9. To conduct probing, thorough evaluation of the proposed program and its elements that includes formative and summative evaluation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): The proposed project aims to increase the number of students with effective life science literacy and some with ambitions to undertake biomedical careers. We focus our program on the heart of science, namely inquiry and do so in relation to important elements of life science content as well as students' and society's wider interests in the environment and health. Together, they provide the intellectual base needed to be scientifically active and the connections to everyday world that stimulate student excitement about scientific knowledge and inquiry.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的计划，“生物学 - 环境健康科学Nexus：询问，内容和交流”，重点介绍了高中一般科学和生物学教师和密尔沃基大都会大都会的学生，尤其是密尔沃基公立学区的少数民族学生。我们的总体目标是发展教师和学生中的探究技能，以此作为理解科学的基础，尤其是在生活科学和环境健康方面。该目标是由国家科学教育标准在遗传学，细胞特性和有机物行为领域推荐的科学内容中形成的。这些领域与对学生对学生的重要健康问题的密切联系，包括暴露于铅，酒精和紫外线辐射以及哮喘等状况。将创建一系列完全开发和支持的实验模块，可用于教授九年级的一般科学和十年级生物学内容。每种都涉及将水生生物作为生物医学模型的使用，其中一些包括大分子模型和分子生物学实验。这些模块进行了运动活动，共同为教师和学生提供了多个具有真实科学探究的相遇。与两个科学课程中的模块集成在一起的是学生沟通有关课堂内和之间的实验，写作和发布研究通信和报告的实验，以及参加年度研究会议。教师通过研讨会，每年的科学和教育支持，评估活动和喂养活动以及进行计划活动，从而增强他们作为学生的科学家和科学导师的能力来获得专业发展。为了实现我们的目标，我们针对学生有以下具体目标：1。适应当前的中学生活科学实验模块的高中通用科学模块。 2。为高中生物学的开发和实施实验模块，这些模块与中学生活科学中使用的当前模块有关（AIM 1），并将课程内容与环境健康相关性相结合。 3。通过书面研究报告，互联网互联网讨论结果和解释以及召集年度学生研究会议来发展学生的科学沟通技巧。 4。吸引各种社会经济和种族背景的学生（男孩和女孩）。对于教师实现这些目标，其他计划目标是：5。根据实验模块，为科学探究提供年度夏季讲习班（一般科学与生物学研讨会）。 6。将教师与研究模块的学生老师联系起来，该模块是科学探究教育课程的。 7。为教师提供强大的科学和教育支持，以将实验模块和沟通活动引入其课程。 8。包括该计划的有力的民族传播部分。 9。进行探测，对所提出的计划及其要素进行彻底评估，其中包括形成性和总结性评估。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目旨在增加具有有效的生活科学素养的学生人数，有些人具有从事生物医学职业的野心。我们将计划重点放在科学的核心上，即询问，并与生命科学内容的重要要素以及学生和社会对环境和健康的更广泛利益有关。他们共同提供了科学活跃所需的智力基础，以及与日常世界的联系，激发了学生对科学知识和探究的兴奋。