Promoting environmental health literacy through scientific communication and intergenerational learning in a K-12 safe drinking water citizen science project (Communicating Data)

在 K-12 安全饮用水公民科学项目中通过科学交流和代际学习提高环境健康素养（交流数据）

• 批准号: 10663551
• 负责人: Jane Elizabeth Disney
• 金额: $ 27.2万
• 依托单位: MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LAB
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-20 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10663551
• 关键词: Address; Area; Arsenic; Attention; Chemicals; Child; Clinical; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Competence; Data; Data Collection; Data Science; Data Set; Economically Deprived Population; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Environmental Health; Exposure to; Family; Family member; Feedback; Geographic Locations; Goals; Grant; Hardness; Heavy Metals; Home; Household; Immigrant; Interdisciplinary Communication; Lead; Learning; Maine; Metals; Modeling; Motivation; New Hampshire; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Pathway interactions; Personal Communication; Persons; Population; Privatization; Public Health; Research; Research Personnel; Rural; Rural Community; STEM career; Sampling; School Teachers; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Scientist; Secondary Schools; Self Efficacy; Series; Side; Source; Students; Surveys; System; Teacher Professional Development; Techniques; Testing; Time; Toxicant exposure; Toxin; Training; Translating; Uranium; Urban Community; Water; Water Pollutants; Work; career; citizen science; contaminated drinking water; contaminated water; data communication; data literacy; data visualization; design; drinking water; experience; health data; health goals; health literacy; improved; innovation; interest; intergenerational; lectures; medical schools; minority communities; novel; outreach; programs; public drinking; rural area; rural environment; skills; socioeconomic disadvantage; student participation; teacher; test strip; tool; urban area; urban setting; water sampling; well water

ABSTRACT/SUMMARY (30 lines): The Communicating Data project engages secondary school teachers and students from both rural and urban areas in Maine and New Hampshire as citizen scientists in collecting both private and public drinking water samples for heavy metal analysis and communicating their findings with a goal of improving public health in their communities. This new project will build on our current SEPA project which has a focus on arsenic in private well water in rural communities. Based on what we are learning in our first project, that nearly all communities have a mix of some public water systems as well as private wells, we will provide a more inclusive experience for students by having them collect home drinking water samples for analysis, no matter what the source. We will provide curriculum on drinking water systems so that students can identify their source of drinking water. While our first project focused on arsenic in wells, many schools found that uranium and lead and other contaminants were also issues that need attention. So, we will develop curriculum that addresses multiple drinking water contaminants and provide training for teachers in these areas. We have already developed data literacy tools and curriculum that will serve teachers and students in this new project. With these supports in place, our new SEPA project will focus on helping students create data visualizations so that they can more effectively communicate their findings to diverse audiences. We know from surveys of homeowners who contributed well water samples in the first years of our current project, that the likelihood of mitigating arsenic in drinking water was related to the extent of parent-child interactions in the home. To further support these interactions, we will also focus on intergenerational learning. In guided focus sessions with parents, we will get their input on developing appropriate at-home conversation prompts and sink-side activities to engage families more actively in understanding the importance of healthy drinking water. We anticipate that this approach, combined with our expanded focus on multiple contaminants in drinking water from homes dependent on either private or public drinking water sources in either urban or rural environments will enable us to more broadly disseminate our project and facilitate its replicability in other geographic areas. .

摘要/总结（30 行）： 数据通信项目吸引了来自农村和城市的中学教师和学生 缅因州和新罕布什尔州的地区作为公民科学家收集私人和公共饮用水 样本进行重金属分析并交流其结果，以改善当地的公众健康 社区。这个新项目将建立在我们当前的 SEPA 项目的基础上，该项目重点关注私营砷问题 农村社区的井水。根据我们在第一个项目中了解到的情况，几乎所有社区 混合了一些公共供水系统和私人水井，我们将提供更具包容性的体验 让学生收集家庭饮用水样本进行分析，无论其来源如何。我们 将提供有关饮用水系统的课程，以便学生能够确定他们的饮用水来源。 虽然我们的第一个项目重点关注井中的砷，但许多学校发现铀、铅和其他 污染物也是需要关注的问题。因此，我们将开发解决多个问题的课程 饮用水污染物，并为这些领域的教师提供培训。我们已经开发了数据 将为这个新项目中的教师和学生提供服务的识字工具和课程。有了这些支持 我们的新 SEPA 项目将专注于帮助学生创建数据可视化，以便他们能够更多地 有效地将他们的发现传达给不同的受众。我们从对房主的调查中得知 在我们当前项目的第一年提供了井水样本，减少砷的可能性 饮用水与家庭中亲子互动的程度有关。为了进一步支持这些 互动的同时，我们也会注重代际学习。在与家长的指导性焦点会议中，我们将得到 他们对制定适当的家庭对话提示和水槽边活动以吸引家庭的投入 更积极地了解健康饮用水的重要性。我们预计这种方法， 结合我们对依赖于其中之一的家庭饮用水中多种污染物的更多关注 城市或农村环境中的私人或公共饮用水源将使我们能够更广泛地 传播我们的项目并促进其在其他地理区域的复制。 。