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Broader Impact from Graduate Students Transferring Engineering Principles
The WSE, with Schools from Baltimore City and County, and the White Earth and Leech Lake Tribal Reservation schools involved in a Minnesota Math Science Partnership, are working together to encourage under-represented students from inner cities to rural Native American communities to pursue studies in STEM Education.
The intent of this three-year grant (issued in May of 2005) is for graduate
student Fellows to rotate through an internship with several distinct K-12
schools that serve disadvantaged children. Master Teachers who have been
involved in research at JHU in the RET programs (described above) will work
with the Fellows: (1) to develop pedagogical skills to
teach children with different learning styles; (2) to enhance
the content knowledge of district teachers; and (3) to
facilitate the creation of standards aligned content based on cutting-edge
research. Each project will focus on topics from Environmental Engineering
and Geography (EEG), including geology, hydrology, ecology, geomorphology,
environmental chemistry, human factors (relations between human activities
and environmental change). The Fellows will relate each project: (1)
to standards, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s
Project 2061 “Flow of Matter in Ecosystems;” (2)
to compelling social issues as global climate change, and preservation of
ecosystems; and (3) to the utilization of materials by
students with physical limitations. The latter will be through joint activities
developed with the National Federation of the Blind.