Science teaching through the arts: Bringing state-of-the-art environmental health education to youth in agricultural communities

通过艺术进行科学教学：为农业社区的年轻人提供最先进的环境健康教育

• 批准号: 9975589
• 负责人: Daniel Fernandez
• 金额: $ 26.89万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIV, MONTEREY BAY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-16 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9975589
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Agriculture; Air Pollution; Area; Arts; Awareness; Back; California; Case Study; Censuses; Child; Collaborations; Communities; Community Health; Competence; County; Ecosystem; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Impact; Exposure to; Face; Family; Fertilizers; Goals; Health; Health education; High School Faculty; High School Student; Hispanic-serving Institution; Hispanics; Housing; Human; Individual; Institutes; Knowledge; Language; Lead; Leadership; Learning; Low income; Mathematics; Methods; Mexican Americans; Modeling; Multimedia; Music; Next Generation Science Standards; Nitrates; Oceans; Pacific Ocean; Pesticides; Plastics; Pollution; Population; Positioning Attribute; Price; Process; Production; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Research Project Grants; Resources; Role; STEM curriculum; Safety; Salinas Valley; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Scientist; Self Efficacy; Steam; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Training Programs; Training and Education; Translations; Universities; Violence; Visual; Work; Youth; aging population; agricultural community; aquarium; artist; base; career; climate change; college; community based participatory research; contaminated water; eleventh grade; experience; experimental study; farm worker; gang; health literacy; high school; improved; junior high school; land use; literacy; pollutant; programs; project-based learning; school district; science education; science teacher; skills; summer internship; symposium; teacher

Project Abstract: In California, Hispanics made up 38% of the population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010), and by 2040, will comprise an estimated 50% of the working-age population. In the US, Latinx college graduates are slowly increasing but less than 10% earn degrees in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Our study area is the Salinas Valley, known as the “salad bowl of the world,” and where ~80% of the 78,000 students served by Monterey County public schools are Mexican-American primarily from farmworker families. In Salinas Unified School District, only 21% of students met or exceeded CAASPP Mathematics standards and only 8% of 11th grade students reported a high level of opportunities for meaningful participation at school. Thus, these Salinas Valley students face many challenges, including low income, English as a second language, poor housing, violence and gang activity, water contamination, and exposures to pesticides and nitrate fertilizers and other emissions from agriculture. The valley directly connects to the Pacific Ocean and Monterey Bay, where these pollutants affect the marine ecosystem and also circle back and impact human health. Improved STEM skill-sets that include environmental health literacy can help students learn how to solve environmental challenges and enter an expanding science-based labor sector. Few curricula clarify the relationship between the health of oceans and human health. We aim to improve local environmental health literacy in schools serving youth in these low-income agricultural communities by developing an integrated Environmental Health Partnership and using the arts (visual, music, theater) to improve understanding of the sciences and widen translation to a larger community (STEAM). California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), a Hispanic-Serving Institution and national leader in science education will lead the partnership, with contributions from the Monterey County Office of Education (MCOE), the Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) and its longstanding teacher training summits, the CHAMACOS study (the University of California, Berkeley) with its 20 years history engaging youth in environmental health community projects in the Salinas valley, and local community-based art groups. To accomplish our goals, we will: (1) contribute environmental health expertise to MCOE implementation of NGSS standards; (2) integrate environmental health literacy into NGSS-aligned Aquarium teacher training programs addressing ocean plastics, climate change, and agriculture and with Salinas Valley teachers, conduct project-based learning approaches to these subject area; evaluate the impacts of these training programs on student knowledge, competency, and self-efficacy; and, (3) work with youth to develop and showcase professional-grade art productions to bring environmental health literacy education to wider audiences.

项目摘要： 在加利福尼亚州，拉美裔占人口的 38%（美国人口普查局，2010），并且 到 2040 年，拉丁裔大学将占美国劳动年龄人口的 50%。 毕业生正在缓慢增加，但获得科学、技术、 工程和数学（STEM）我们的研究区域是萨利纳斯山谷，被称为“沙拉碗”。 世界”，蒙特雷县公立学校服务的 78,000 名学生中约有 80% 墨西哥裔美国人主要来自农场工人家庭，在萨利纳斯联合学区，只有 21%。 学生达到或超过 CAASPP 数学标准，只有 8% 的 11 年级学生 报告称，这些萨利纳斯山谷有大量有意义的参与学校的机会。 学生面临许多挑战，包括低收入、英语作为第二语言、住房条件恶劣、 暴力和帮派活动、水污染、接触杀虫剂和硝酸盐肥料以及 该山谷直接连接太平洋和蒙特利湾， 这些污染物不仅影响海洋生态系统，也影响人类健康。 改进的 STEM 技能（包括环境健康素养）可以帮助学生学习 如何解决环境挑战并进入不断扩大的以科学为基础的劳动力领域。 课程阐明了海洋健康与人类健康之间的关系。 为这些低收入农业地区的青年提供服务的学校中的当地环境健康素养 通过发展综合环境健康伙伴关系并利用艺术（视觉、 音乐、戏剧）以增进对科学的理解并更广泛地转化为更大的社区 （STEAM）。加州州立大学蒙特利湾分校（CSUMB），一所为西班牙裔服务的机构和 科学教育领域的国家领导者将在蒙特利大学的贡献下领导这一伙伴关系 县教育办公室 (MCOE)、蒙特利湾水族馆 (MBA) 及其长期老师 培训峰会，CHAMACOS 研究（加州大学伯克利分校）已有 20 年历史 萨利纳斯山谷和当地青年参与环境健康社区项目的历史 为了实现我们的目标，我们将： (1) 为环境健康做出贡献。 MCOE 实施 NGSS 标准的专业知识；(2) 整合环境健康素养 参与符合 NGSS 的水族馆教师培训计划，解决海洋塑料、气候变化、 和农业，并与萨利纳斯谷教师一起，针对这些问题开展基于项目的学习方法 学科领域；评估这些培训计划对学生知识、能力、 和自我效能；(3) 与年轻人合作​​发展和展示专业级艺术 制作将环境健康素养教育带给更广泛的受众。