Are you a Colorado art or science, math, engineering K-12 teacher interested in collaborating with scientists, fellow teachers and museums or libraries to create exciting and creative ways for youth to delve into data about environmental issues?
Please consider applying to be a听Data-Driven Art Science Community Activities for Youth听Fellow by Oct. 6.
Fellows will be teams of K-12 teachers (grades 5-12) and university scientists. Teachers and their students will engage in creative, hands-on and authentic scientific ways of doing, knowing and learning. An orientation for all involved will take place on Nov. 14, 2024.
- Teacher fellows will each receive a $2,000 stipend and 2 CE credits for their participation in two program phases of approximately 20 hours each: Phase 1) Spring 2025 and Phase 2) Summer and Fall 2025. 听
- Scientist/Science labs will receive $1,000. Scientist participation is approximately 10 hours.
- Museum and library partners will receive up to $1,000. Museum participation is approximately 10 hours.听
Teachers will participate in a community of learners where they will learn from each other, and university and museum or library partners. Fellows will be coached and guided by staff from CU Science Discovery and the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship as well as program affiliates. Together, with teachers taking the lead, fellows will develop data-driven art and science activities for use in their classrooms and by the public at a museum or library.听
The heart of the program is for participants to connect art, science, data and place-based learning that addresses complex social and environmental issues while developing strong relationships among teachers, communities and university scientists.听
Teachers will participate in a community of learners. They will develop art-science activities using a university scientist鈥檚 dataset tailored for classroom use with the support of their scientist partner. Next, they will develop art-science activities with place-based data that students and teachers will either collect themselves or access from a local partner (e.g., USGS or the Forest Service). Subsequently, in partnership with a local museum or library, classroom art-science activities, and possibly teacher and student work, will be shared with the public in the museum or library space. 听 Note: All cohort meetings will occur online via Zoom (see TIMELINE for more details).听 Throughout the program, teachers and students will grapple with real data and address what the NSTA and other national organizations share is the need for students to develop dataliteracy across the curriculum (NSTA et al., 2024). The National Science Teacher Association : 鈥淒ata can be numbers, counts, and measurements but also images, video, sounds, or words. 麻豆淫院 need to grapple with the fast-changing nature of data, yet a gap exists between the concepts taught in math and the data skills needed by other disciplines. All learners need opportunities to develop data literacy, knowledge, and skills.鈥澨� Data-Driven Art Science Community Activities for Youth听is a team and cohort-based program. We are looking for teachers excited to collaborate and forge new relationships with their colleagues, university scientists, communities,听museums and libraries.听听 The Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship and CU Science Discovery are听 strongly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. What makes me eligible to apply?听 We are accepting applications through Oct. 6, 2024 from eligible teachers who must apply in teams from the same school:听 What experience should I have?听听
Scientists from CU Boulder and/or the McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research network will support teacher teams in developing data-drive art and science activities for youth through the use of one of their lab鈥檚 datasets. Scientists will consult with the teacher teams on the science, e.g. how to understand, contextualize, analyze, visualize and share the data with students.听 The time commitment for scientists is approximately ten hours, primarily in spring semester 2025.听 Participation details:听 All meetings are virtual unless teams decide otherwise. Please review the program roles and timeline sections below for more detailed information.
In brief, museums or libraries local to the educators will support teacher teams starting in late spring and summer 2025. During this time, teacher teams will develop place-based, data-driven art and science activities for their classrooms and for implementation at the museum or library. 听 The time commitment for museums or libraries is approximately ten hours, primarily in late spring and summer 2025. Participation details: 听 All meetings are virtual unless teams decide otherwise. Please review the program roles and timeline sections below for more detailed information.
Program Leads听 Alex Rose from CU Science Discovery and Lisa Schwartz from the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship are the Data-Driven Art Science Community Activities for Youth听program leads. Alex and Lisa will be available throughout the program to support teachers and scientist fellows and plan to work closely with all fellows and their community partners. Please contact Alex and Lisa with questions.听 Dr. Alexandra (Alex) Rose is an education and outreach professional with appointments through CU Science Discovery (University of Colorado Boulder鈥檚 Division of Continuing Education), the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. Her work is focused on communicating the research resulting from two long-term National Science Foundation grants focused on the impacts of humans and climate change on the ecology of the Colorado alpine (Niwot Ridge LTER) and the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica (McMurdo-Dry Valleys LTER). With this work, Rose teaches a science communication and outreach course for graduate students (EBIO6100) and leads field trips for elementary through high school students focused on snow science, forest ecology and climate change (e.g. Snow School, Casey to Cal-Wood, the Mountain Research Experience, Forests and Fires Summer Research Experience and Crest View BioBlitz). She is also passionate about "data literacy" and using data-driven art projects to engage reluctant science learners in data analysis.听听 Dr. Lisa Schwartz is a community听program manager at the University of Colorado Boulder Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship. She has a doctorate in education from the University of Arizona and was a postdoctoral researcher and research director in the CU Boulder School of Education on a MacArthur Digital Media and Learning project before joining the office in 2016. Schwartz has more than 20 years of experience as a community-engaged scholar, educational researcher, social scientist and K-12 and university educator. She leads the program. CASE fellows are eight teams of artists, from across Colorado, and CU Boulder Scientists who collaborated to create an exhibition, for the Colorado State Capitol and now on tour throughout Colorado, that tells the story of how Coloradans are experiencing interrelated challenges of fire, drought, and water and air quality in their communities. Through her work on STEAM and multimodal literacy education efforts in Arizona and Colorado, Schwartz has worked with universities, nonprofits, K-12 schools and non-dominant communities to explore connections between people and place and biological and cultural diversity. Since 2018 she has also developed and led the Engaged Arts and Humanities Scholars program, now a collaboration with the CU Boulder Center for Humanities and the Arts.听听 Affiliates is an Education and Outreach Associate at the Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation (CIRES). She is currently leading the Hazard Education Awareness & Resilience Task Force (HEART Force) project. Before joining CIRES Education and Outreach, Katya was most recently a middle school earth science teacher at Gunnison Middle School. Before becoming a classroom teacher, Katya worked for the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement where she managed the Learn More About Climate program. Additionally, she managed education and outreach for a multidisciplinary research project on hydraulic fracturing, the AirWaterGas Sustainability Research Network. She earned her MA in Geography at CU Boulder studying alpine hydrology, and her BS in Environmental Science and BA in Latin American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She鈥檚 a passionate educator who seeks to support K-12 educators to teach research-based, hands-on, engaging climate science curriculum. Darya Warner听teaches photography and art+science collaborative practices at the United States Airforce Academy, Colorado. Warner works at the intersection of art and science by bridging the creative process and growth/connections with human and non-human actors through the prism of Climate Change. Their research explores the Biophilia Hypothesis, also known as 鈥渢he love of all living things,鈥� as a crucial factor in reconnecting humans and nature via interactive installations, visual displays, photography, sound, time-based media, and bioart in the new form of hybrid matter based on care. They address issues of environmental impact among artists and connect creative processes to earth-conscious practices, and implement sustainable art practices methodology as a part of the educational curriculum. They graduated from the School of Visual Arts (BFA) and got their MFA from University at Buffalo. They have exhibited nationally and internationally and received multiple grants to support their projects. Scientist/Science Fellow Partners听 We are currently recruiting scientist fellows (individual scientists or science labs) from CU Boulder and the 听who will partner with teacher teams.To make the best matches, we will not finalize scientist partners until we receive teacher applications. As in prior collaborations, we anticipate involvement from scientists from a variety of disciplines at CU Boulder who are affiliated with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and the . 听 Museum and Library Partners听 Currently, our museum partners are the CU Natural History Museum and the .听We are in conversation with museums and libraries in other parts of Colorado, and we will update the partner list accordingly. Additional museum or library partners will be local to where participating teachers live. 听
Teams will be composed of the following:听听听 Benefits for teachers:听 Benefits for scientist fellows, museums and libraries:听 Overview of roles:听 Teacher roles in detail:听 Phase 1: Nov. 2024鈥揗ay 2025听 Phase 2: Summer鈥揊all 2025听 Scientist/Science Lab roles in detail:听听 Phase 1: Nov. 2024鈥揗ay 2025听 Phase 2: Summer鈥揊all 2025听 Museum/Library听role in detail: 听 Approximately 10 hours across Phases 1 and 2听 Phase 1: Dec. 2024鈥揗ay 2025听 Attend orientation, optional attendance at other meetings (see TIMELINE for details)听听听 Phase 2: Summer鈥揊all 2025听
Approximately 20 hours of work (approximately 13 hours of meetings and workshops, 7 hours preparation and implementation)听
Approximately 20 hours of preparation work and meetings. Implementation work is not included as it will depend on each teacher team.听听
Approximately 10 hours across Phases 1 and 2听
听2024 Fellowship Application Process:听 Program Phase 1: Nov. 2024鈥揗ay 2025听 Program Phase 2: Summer 2025鈥揊all 2025听 Summer 2025:听Teacher teams will develop plans for a place-based art-science-data activity representative of a local issue and using a local dataset, and they will create a prototype art-science-data artifact derived from the activity. Science and museum or library听partners will support activity development. They will advise on data collection and analysis plans, as well as pedagogical approaches and activities.听 Fall 2025鈥擲pring 2026: Activities developed over the summer will be utilized within the teachers鈥� classrooms, and activities will be featured at a local museum or library. Science fellows and museum or library partners will contiune to support activity development where needed.
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Data-Driven Art Science Community Activities for Youth听is a program of the Office for Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship and听CU Science Discovery,听with additional support from听.
For questions about the program please contact Lisa Schwartz听(303.735.6222)听or Alex Rose.
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- Attending an information session on Oct.听1, 4鈥�4:30 p.m. 听
- Scheduling a 20-minute chat (at your convenience) with program organizers
- Receiving听reminders about application deadlines and program updates