Teach about US: Educational Outreach Project - Bridging the American Studies and Science Classrooms: Going Green Meets STEM

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Beschreibung

TeachAboutUS is an intercultural online learning platform for use in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and science classrooms in Germany. It is the product of an ongoing, multi-year partnership among the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Leuphana University Lüneburg, and the LIFE non-profit organization with support from our U.S.-based partner, the Transatlantic Outreach Program (TOP) in Washington D.C. Local partners include the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Berlin, the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth, and Research; the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); and the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry for Schools and Further Education.
The TeachAboutUS online platform features two innovative programs: “The U.S. Election Project” (every four years) and “Going Green−Teaching for Sustainability” (annually) as well as a blog written by high school and college students in the U.S. and Germany. Both school projects offer virtual and direct access to experts, hands-on teacher training, a fully developed curriculum-based on web 2.0 innovative teaching tools, and a student project competition.
TeachAboutUS has grown steadily since its inception in 2012. In 2016, more than 3,000 teachers and students participated. The goal of Going Green is to foster interest in innovative sustainability research across the curriculum including the humanities, languages and STEM subjects, to encourage civic engagement, and to provide professional experience for young people. In addition to offering the regular extended curriculum for the 2017-18 academic year, a project week addressing renewable energy from a science and cultural studies perspective will be introduced. Students will explore the challenges of energy systems in the 21st century, the science behind renewable energy, and ways to implement them in the local context. We especially encourage partnerships between EFL and STEM/MINT classes.
The TeachAboutUS team received the Hans Eberhardt Piepho Prize in 2013 for innovative teaching ideas and the Land of Ideas Award in 2015. Positive feedback from teachers and students has demonstrated that our innovative approach is not only important, but also fun! Check out TeachAboutUS and learn more about how to participate and to subscribe to our monthly newsletter at http://teachaboutus.org.
StatusAbgeschlossen
Zeitraum24.02.1730.09.18

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  1. Michael Besser

Publikationen

  1. Ideological Stances in Yoruba Nation Secessionist Discourse in Nigerian Virtual Communities
  2. Building a bridge between school and university
  3. QUANT - Question Answering Benchmark Curator
  4. Students' Time Allocation and School Performance
  5. Sustainable engineering education in research and practice
  6. How health message framing and targets affect distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic
  7. A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management
  8. Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations
  9. Impacts of entrepreneur’s error orientation on performance: A cross-culture comparison
  10. Speaking about vision, talking in the name of so much more
  11. Synchronic and Diachronic Pragmatic Variability
  12. The self-sabotage of conservation
  13. Globalization and the societal consensus of wealth tax cuts
  14. Discrimination at work: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment. An empirical study of the influence of perceived discrimination on work-related behaviours among people with and without a migration background
  15. Influence of Torsion on Precipitation and Hardening Effects during Aging of an Extruded AZ91 Alloy
  16. Vermittlungstheologie II. Dogmatisch
  17. Spielt Charlie Parker in den Wind oder mit ihm?
  18. From the environmental state to the sustainability state? Conceptualization, indicators, and examples
  19. Action and action-regulation in entrepreneurship: Evaluating a student training for promoting entrepreneurship
  20. Wege in eine bessere Zukunft der Hochschulen
  21. Threshold stress during tensile and compressive creep in AE42 magnesium alloy
  22. General conclusions
  23. Tuning into Things
  24. Facing complex crime
  25. Public service media, innovation policy and the ‘crowding out’ problem
  26. Does a smile open all doors? Understanding the impact of appearance disclosure on accommodation sharing platforms
  27. Space-focused stereotypes and their potential role in group-based disparities in social work services
  28. High-Volume Resistance Training Improves Double-Poling Peak Oxygen Uptake in Youth Elite Cross-Country Skiers and Biathletes
  29. A Performance Motivator in one Country, A Non-Motivator in Another?
  30. Logic as a Medium
  31. Experimental-numerical study of laser-shock-peening-induced retardation of fatigue crack propagation in Ti-17 titanium alloy
  32. Farewell to the party model?
  33. Zinc and cadmium accumulation in single zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos - A total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry application
  34. Kosmopolitismus
  35. Debattieren im Unterricht
  36. A review of ecosystem service benefits from wild bees across social contexts
  37. European hospitals as a Source for Platinum in the Environment in Comparison with Other Sources
  38. Reconciling Analytics with Holistic Thinking in Business Sustainability Decision-Making
  39. The priority value of scrubland habitats for carnivore conservation in Mediterranean ecosystems
  40. Modern Micropolitics of Antipopulism
  41. Datenbasierte Selbst- und Fremdevaluation
  42. Developments in Qualitative Mindfulness Practice Research