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City-As-Lab

Learn how to engage urban students with their environment through innovative initiatives and partnerships with local organizations. Explore the field of geology in NYC and its relevance to residents, focusing on air quality and GIS applications. Join us in empowering the next generation of environmental leaders! |

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City-As-Lab

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  1. Rebecca Boger Brooklyn College City-As-Lab

  2. How do you connect urban students to the environment?

  3. Working with partners • Gateway National Park • American Museum of Natural History • Prospect Park Alliance • BCUE • GLOBE NYC Metro • + others

  4. Lots of opportunities

  5. Some initiatives in the geology department • GK-12 NSF project • Teacher Academy • Course redesign and creation

  6. GK-12 Project • 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

  7. Teachers Preparatory Academy of Urban Planning Brooklyn Academy of Science and Environment Science, Technology and Research Academy for Environmental Leadership school main site additional site GK-12 City-As-Lab Sites

  8. Teacher Academy • CUNY and NYU program • Intensive program to prepare NYC math and science teachers • Initiated program/course revisions at Brooklyn College

  9. GEO 1 redesign • Currently a traditional survey course • Required for all geology majors, including TA students for Earth sciences • Received funding from the Teacher Academy • Including GLOBE • GIS - MyWorld

  10. Geo 1 • 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

  11. Introduction to GIS • Project-based • Collaborative learning • Find and use real data • Mixture 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

  12. They did… • 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?

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