ASSET: Expanding and Sustaining Hands-on Science in K-12 Classrooms using Tetrahymena

ASSET：利用四膜虫在 K-12 教室中扩展和维持实践科学

• 批准号: 10591581
• 负责人: DOUGLAS LEE CHALKER
• 金额: $ 23.99万
• 依托单位: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-20 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10591581
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Project Summary/Abstract This proposal builds on an existing infrastructure of the ASSET program (Advancing Secondary Science Education through Tetrahymena), to generate new teaching materials, reach new student populations, and ensure sustainability of the program by transitioning its overall functions from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to Washington University in St. Louis. Over the past 10 years, ASSET has built a highly successful SEPA program that teaches core biology content to primary, middle, and high school students using a safe, easily grown, and behaviorally complex single-celled organism (viz. Tetrahymena). Tetrahymena provides an ideal platform for teaching basic principles of cell structure and function, genetics, evolution, sex, prey-predator interaction, cell signaling, etc. without engendering in students any of the conflicting reactions often evoked using live vertebrate animals. Additionally, Tetrahymena offers a graphic illustration of the deleterious effects of toxic and/or addictive substances on living cells in real-time, equipping teachers with a powerful tool with which to fight against substance abuse and promote healthy behavior. ASSET provides stand-alone laboratory kits that are easily integrated into existing science/health curricula, along with innovative co-curricular modules that address the intersection between science and society. The program helps science teachers educate students in under-resourced schools in rural and inner-city school districts, provides robust on-site and distance teacher development activities, while continuously being evaluated for pedagogical effectiveness. This new proposal will greatly expand the program’s current offerings by introducing new materials to existing modules, as well as new modules that address recently identified areas of high programmatic interest to SEPA, specifically, embedding math in P-8 teaching projects; exposing students to research-generated data; and, training students in informatics, bioinformatics, and data science. The Co-Directors have extensive experience teaching bioinformatics and helping students interpret research-driven data, while curriculum specialists at Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership are well-positioned to evaluate existing modules to identify opportunities to teach mathematical concepts using examples from biology and student generated data at grade appropriate levels. Finally, the move from Cornell to Washington University addresses an additional area of programmatic interest for SEPA, namely, adapting successful SEPA programs to new areas or with new populations. Through its Institute for School Partnership, Washington University is strongly committed to achieving equity in K-12 education bringing high-quality STEM teaching to >100,000 students in the Midwest through its various teaching programs. Incorporating the ASSET program under its umbrella expands its current activities, introduces ASSET to whole new populations of students, and provides ASSET a safe haven for continuing its long-term mission to enhance STEM education and, ultimately, the STEM workforce.

项目概要/摘要 该提案建立在 ASSET 计划（推进中学科学）的现有基础设施之上 通过四膜虫进行教育），以产生新的教材，接触新的学生群体，以及 通过将其整体职能从位于新州伊萨卡的康奈尔大学转移来确保该计划的可持续性 从约克到圣路易斯华盛顿大学 在过去 10 年里，ASSET 建立了非常成功的 SEPA。 使用安全、轻松的方式向小学生、初中生和高中生教授核心生物学内容的计划 生长的、行为复杂的单细胞生物（即四膜虫）提供了理想的选择。 用于教授细胞结构和功能、遗传学、进化、性别、捕食者-捕食者基本原理的平台 相互作用、细胞信号传导等，而不会引起学生使用经常引起的任何冲突反应 此外，四膜虫生动地说明了有毒物质的有害影响。 和/或实时对活细胞上瘾的物质，为教师提供了一个强大的工具来 ASSET 提供独立的实验室套件，以打击药物滥用并促进健康行为。 很容易融入现有的科学/健康课程，以及创新的课外模块 该计划帮助科学教师教育学生科学与社会之间的交叉点。 农村和内城区学区资源不足的学校，提供强大的现场和远程教学 发展活动，同时不断评估这项新提案的教学有效性。 通过向现有模块引入新材料以及新的 解决最近确定的 SEPA 高度感兴趣的领域的模块，特别是嵌入 P-8 教学项目中的数学；让学生接触研究生成的数据； 联合主任在信息学、生物信息学和数据科学方面拥有丰富的教学经验。 生物信息学并帮助学生解释研究驱动的数据，而华盛顿的课程专家 大学的学校合作研究所有能力评估现有模块，以确定 使用生物学示例和学生在年级生成的数据教授数学概念的机会 最后，从康奈尔大学转移到华盛顿大学解决了另一个领域的问题。 SEPA 的计划利益，即使成功的 SEPA 计划适应新领域或新的 华盛顿大学通过其学校合作伙伴研究所坚定致力于 实现 K-12 教育公平，为中西部超过 100,000 名学生提供高质量的 STEM 教学 通过将资产项目纳入其旗下的各种项目教学，扩大了其现有的项目。 活动，将 ASSET 介绍给全新的学生群体，并为 ASSET 提供一个安全的避风港 继续履行加强 STEM 教育并最终提高 STEM 劳动力队伍的长期使命。