Collaborative Research: GP-IN: Connected to Earth: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange for Advancing Earth Science Learning

Funded by NSF – GEOPAths (Pathways into the Geosciences – Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric Sciences) 

Earth Partnership is a collaborator on this project, awarded to UW Whitewater. Key project partners are the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

Project objectives: 

• Create learning communities of undergraduates and teachers, working with each other and together with Tribal knowledge keepers, educators, and resource managers.
• Expose undergraduate and grades 8-12 students and pre- and in-service teachers to immersive cultural and place-based experiences (including virtual experiences) in Hawai’i and/or Wisconsin to nurture their sense of place.
• Engage teams in Wisconsin and Hawai’i in cross-cultural knowledge exchange using robust digital field-based learning tools that also enhance accessibility. Teachers and students will learn to build and share their own virtual field sites with embedded cultural and scientific information.