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Rebecca BogerBrooklyn College
Gateway National Park American Museum of Natural History Prospect Park Alliance BCUE GLOBE NYC Metro + others
GK-12 NSF project
Teacher Academy
Course redesign and creation
graduate fellows team with teachers at 5 schools
several school teams have integrated water quality studies into their 9th and 11th grade science curriculum
one school is conducting neighborhood-based energy audits and relating energy use to carbon emissions
school
main site
additional site
GK-12City-As-Lab Sites
Teachers Preparatory
Academy of Urban Planning
Brooklyn Academy of Science and Environment
Science, Technology and Research
Academy for Environmental Leadership
CUNY and NYU program Intensive program to prepare NYC
math and science teachers Initiated program/course revisions at
Brooklyn College
Currently a traditional survey course Required for all geology majors,
including TA students for Earth sciences
Received funding from the Teacher Academy
Including GLOBEGIS - MyWorld
Team of Brooklyn College faculty and DOE teachers
Content will be structured around: What do geologists do? How do geologists think? Why is geology important to NYC
residents? Focus on air particulates
Entry topic for opening up discussion and questions, performing research
Project-basedCollaborative learningFind and use real dataMixture of Teacher Academy
students and geo majors Final projects could be either a lesson
plan or research paper/presentations Students had to find online data
A preliminary GIS Investigation of Common Pollutants Impacting Jamaica Bay
Identify how the causes and effects of global warming affect transportation in NYC
Dirty Jersey How to map crime in your
neighborhood The Gowanus Canal: clean or develop?