It Takes a ‘Superhero’ to Uncover the Climate Secrets in Fossilized Arctic Ocean Dinocysts
The Snow On Ice project developed curricular materials using scientists depicted as superheroes as a means of engaging students and providing a novel method to link current climate change in the Arctic to Middle-Holocene Warming—a topic that might seem to be remote and seemingly unrelatable. The pro...
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ftjcurrent:oai:ojs.www.current-journal.com:article/46 2023-05-15T14:55:53+02:00 It Takes a ‘Superhero’ to Uncover the Climate Secrets in Fossilized Arctic Ocean Dinocysts Turrin, Margie Allan, Estelle Stock, Jeremy Zaima, Laurel 2020-03-14 application/pdf https://www.current-journal.com/jms/article/view/46 https://doi.org/10.5334/cjme.46 eng eng Ubiquity Press https://www.current-journal.com/jms/article/view/46/37 10.5334/cjme.46 https://www.current-journal.com/jms/article/view/46 doi:10.5334/cjme.46 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). CC-BY Current: The Journal of Marine Education; Vol 34, No 1 (2020): Special Issue Featuring Polar Interdisciplinary Coordinated Education (Polar-ICE); 22-28 2632-850X 0889-5546 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion peer-reviewed article 2020 ftjcurrent https://doi.org/10.5334/cjme.46 2021-03-29T19:28:02Z The Snow On Ice project developed curricular materials using scientists depicted as superheroes as a means of engaging students and providing a novel method to link current climate change in the Arctic to Middle-Holocene Warming—a topic that might seem to be remote and seemingly unrelatable. The project explored whether superheroes could be a hook for introducing and retaining new science, vocabulary, and introducing scientists as role models. We recognized that the training and skills our scientists possess are akin to super-skills, and the scientists themselves could be easily viewed as superheroes. For the project, we transitioned our scientists into superheroes, each with a unique super-skill needed for uncovering past Arctic climate change. In this paper, we focus on one of those researchers, Ph.D. candidate Estelle Allan, to demonstrate how this curriculum was developed using our superhero as the center point. Our project’s educa-tional instruction incorporates both real scientific data and a STEAM interdisciplinary approach (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Mathematics) to bring complex scientific concepts and cutting edge research into the classroom, while the integration of art facilitates the delivery of accessible information with long-term retention (Ghanbari 2015). We have worked with approximately 300 teachers in workshops introducing our superheros, posters, and curriculum and have tested the material with multiple middle school and high school groups with great success. We ran pre- and post-tests with over 100 high school students and include our findings in the ‘Results’ section. The results have indicated that presenting scientists as superheroes makes challenging science topics more attainable to students. All the project curriculum is freely downloadable from the project website (https://blog.Ideo.columbia edu/snowonice/education-resources-scientists-are-superheroes/). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Climate change Current - The Journal of Marine Education Arctic Arctic Ocean Center Point ENVELOPE(173.160,173.160,52.926,52.926) Current: The Journal of Marine Education 34 1 22 |
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The Snow On Ice project developed curricular materials using scientists depicted as superheroes as a means of engaging students and providing a novel method to link current climate change in the Arctic to Middle-Holocene Warming—a topic that might seem to be remote and seemingly unrelatable. The project explored whether superheroes could be a hook for introducing and retaining new science, vocabulary, and introducing scientists as role models. We recognized that the training and skills our scientists possess are akin to super-skills, and the scientists themselves could be easily viewed as superheroes. For the project, we transitioned our scientists into superheroes, each with a unique super-skill needed for uncovering past Arctic climate change. In this paper, we focus on one of those researchers, Ph.D. candidate Estelle Allan, to demonstrate how this curriculum was developed using our superhero as the center point. Our project’s educa-tional instruction incorporates both real scientific data and a STEAM interdisciplinary approach (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Mathematics) to bring complex scientific concepts and cutting edge research into the classroom, while the integration of art facilitates the delivery of accessible information with long-term retention (Ghanbari 2015). We have worked with approximately 300 teachers in workshops introducing our superheros, posters, and curriculum and have tested the material with multiple middle school and high school groups with great success. We ran pre- and post-tests with over 100 high school students and include our findings in the ‘Results’ section. The results have indicated that presenting scientists as superheroes makes challenging science topics more attainable to students. All the project curriculum is freely downloadable from the project website (https://blog.Ideo.columbia edu/snowonice/education-resources-scientists-are-superheroes/). |
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