rebecca boger brooklyn college. gateway national park american museum of natural history prospect...

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

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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?