University of Puerto Rico STEM Asthma Awareness Program

波多黎各大学 STEM 哮喘意识计划

• 批准号: 10665623
• 负责人: Orestes Quesada
• 金额: $ 23.96万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-10 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10665623
• 关键词: Address; Air; Area; Asthma; Awareness; Biology; COVID-19 pandemic; Chemistry; Climate; Communities; Community Health; Competence; Creativeness; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Discipline; Disease Outbreaks; Disparity; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational Status; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Engineering; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Exposure to; Fostering; Future; Future Teacher; Geographic Locations; Goals; Health; High School Faculty; High School Student; Hurricane; Hypersensitivity; Imagination; Immersion; International; Knowledge; Labor Forces; Laboratory Research; Learning; Link; Location; Molecular; Motivation; Participant; Personal Satisfaction; Physics; Preparation; Privatization; Process; Puerto Rican; Puerto Rico; Research; Research Activity; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk Factors; Role; STEM career; STEM field; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Societies; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; Universities; University resources; Visit; air monitoring; air sampling; career; college; computer science; digital tool; experience; hands on research; high school; improved; innovation; interest; knowledge base; mathematical sciences; microorganism; programs; resource guides; response; skills; social implication; student participation; teacher; transmission process; twelfth grade; undergraduate student; web page; web site

Project Summary/Abstract The University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras has a remarkable record in research training and the development of undergraduates that pursue graduate and doctoral programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This sharply contrasts with the track record of high schools in Puerto Rico with regards to students that are interested in STEM careers and/or that have the competences to pursue a career in STEM. Confronted with this disparity, we aim to develop a program for the training and education in STEM of high school teachers in Puerto Rico, and their students, that focus on the development of science and engineering practices. Our rationale is that by targeting teachers through this project we will contribute in the education and training of Puerto Rican high school students. Our program will also provide multiple activities – including a summer immersion program- through which high school students will be able to explore their interest in STEM. Specifically, we propose an innovative approach that includes traditional professional development activities for teachers in STEM fields, and an authentic research experience in which teachers and students are integrated and involved in researching a particular health problem that concerns everyone in the Puerto Rican society. Puerto Rico, due to its geographic location and its inherent climate, has one of the highest asthma rates per inhabitant worldwide (14.2%) and this situation increased after the passage of Hurricane María in 2017. Our proposal reconciles the efforts and resources of the University of Puerto Rico, the Molecular Sciences and Research Center, the Puerto Rico Department of Health, and the Puerto Rico Department of Education. The main goal is to, while generating awareness of an important health issue in Puerto Rico, increase the number of STEM teachers engaged in science practices that will enable them to teach science through research and take on an active role in the preparation of students to develop them as a competitive future knowledge-based society.

项目概要/摘要 波多黎各大学里约彼德拉斯分校在研究培训和 攻读科学研究生和博士课程的本科生的发展， 这与以往的记录形成鲜明对比。 波多黎各高中对 STEM 职业感兴趣的学生 和/或有能力从事 STEM 职业 面对这种差距， 我们的目标是为以下地区的高中教师制定 STEM 培训和教育计划 波多黎各和他们的学生，专注于科学和工程的发展 我们的理由是，通过这个项目针对教师，我们将做出贡献。 我们的计划还将提供波多黎各高中生的教育和培训。 多种活动——包括暑期沉浸式项目——高中生可以通过这些活动 具体而言，我们提出了一种创新方法。 其中包括 STEM 领域教师的传统专业发展活动，以及 教师和学生融为一体并参与的真实研究体验 研究波多黎各社会中每个人都关心的特定健康问题。 波多黎各由于其地理位置和固有的气候，是拥有最高海拔的国家之一。 全球人均哮喘发病率 (14.2%)，这种情况在新冠肺炎疫情过后有所增加 2017 年玛丽亚飓风。我们的提案协调了大学的努力和资源 波多黎各，分子科学研究中心，波多黎各部 卫生和波多黎各教育部的主要目标是，同时产生。 提高波多黎各重要健康问题的认识，增加 STEM 教师的数量 从事科学实践，使他们能够通过研究教授科学并采取 在学生的准备中发挥积极作用，使他们成为有竞争力的未来 知识型社会。