Promoting Teachers' and Young Learners' Engagement of Transportation Issues
This project will develop, implement, and distribute standards-aligned curriculum that focuses on real-world transportation issues to include stormwater runoff and erosion mitigation and air quality issues. The curriculum will serve as educative curriculum materials (ECM) for teachers as they engage students with research-based instruction focused on Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) and transportation industry research and recommendations, science content ideas (e.g., water cycle, erosion), and non-science considerations (e.g., economic, ethical, social, legal). The curriculum will also profile the authentic work of TTI researchers, other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals, and the characteristics of their work. Research will be conducted on how professional and curriculum development affects knowledge bases and practices, and how implemented curriculum impacts students’ knowledge of science and engagement of real-world societally important scientific issues.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $75,000.00
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Contract Numbers:
69A3552348329
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
1111 Rellis Parkway
Bryan, Texas United States 77807 -
Project Managers:
Ocon, Monica
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Performing Organizations:
Texas A&M University, College Station
College Station, TX United States 77840 -
Principal Investigators:
Herman, Benjamin
Kinskey, Melanie
- Start Date: 20250601
- Expected Completion Date: 20260530
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
- Source Data: 02-18-TTI
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Curricula; Environmental impacts; High schools; Social factors; Transportation
- Geographic Terms: Texas
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Environment; Society; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01976221
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CARTEEH)
- Contract Numbers: 69A3552348329
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 13 2026 2:13PM