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

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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. Testing for Economies of Scope in European Railways
  2. Application of stress intensity factor superposition in residual stress fields considering crack closure
  3. Ringen um Sinn
  4. Collaboration for a more sustainable agriculture – when does it work?
  5. Effect of Welding Speed on Friction Stir Welds of PM2000 Alloy
  6. Analysis of benzalkonium chloride in the effluent from European hospitals by solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography with post-column ion-pairing and fluorescence detection
  7. Carbon Management Accounting and Reporting in Practice
  8. The measurement of work ability
  9. Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess
  10. Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision
  11. Priming effects induced by glucose and decaying plant residues on SOM decomposition: A three-source 13C/14C partitioning study
  12. Das Essen und seine Genderscripte.
  13. Phantasmal Spaces
  14. The prospects of product carbon footprints in ERP systems
  15. Implementing education for sustainable development in the German school system
  16. Give and take frames in shared-resource negotiations
  17. The Effects of Altruism and Social Background in an Online-Based, Pay-What-You-Want Situation
  18. Framing climate uncertainty
  19. Reconceptualising Business-IT Alignment for Enabling Organisational Agility
  20. The Managerial Relevance of Marketing Science: Properties and Genesis
  21. Epistemologies of Diversity and Otherness
  22. Effects of pesticides on community structure and ecosystem functions in agricultural streams of three biogeographical regions in Europe
  23. Cultural influences on social feedback processing of character traits
  24. Land use modulates resistance of grasslands against future climate and inter-annual climate variability in a large field experiment
  25. Mathematics teachers’ domain-specific professional knowledge: conceptualization and test construction in COACTIV