Modeling: Instructional Materials and Software for Theory Building

该项目的目标是为7-12年级的学生提供工具， 理解复杂系统的材料。 学生将能够 创建复杂情况的模型，并评估 他们的模型使用经验数据。 简而言之，他们将能够建立 测试理论，并将这些技能应用于科学。 这一目标将通过一个三阶段项目来实现， 强大、快速的软件包，具有良好的用户界面， 简单的模型创建和测试，以及一系列 使用此软件的教学材料。 该项目资助 这是这项工作的第一阶段，在此期间，原型软件和材料 将被开发、测试和发布。 由此产生的课程 将通过通讯、专题讨论会 教师研讨会，专业介绍和商业 出版物 该材料将由技术教育研究中心开发 （TERC）与领先的教育工作者和地区学校的合作。 该项目与教学材料共同资助 发展计划。

The goal of this project is to give students in grades 7-12 tools and materials to understand complex systems. Students will be able to create models of complex situations and evaluate the correctness of their models using empirical data. In short, they will be able to build and test theories, and apply these skills to the sciences. This goal will be accomplished by a three phase project to develop powerful, fast software packages with good user interfaces that allow easy model creation and testing, together with a sequence of instructional material using this software. This project funds the first phase of this effort during which prototype software and material will be developed, tested and published. The resulting curriculum materials will be widely disseminated through newsletters, symposia, teacher workshops, professional presentations and commercial publication. The material will be developed by Technical Education Research Center (TERC) with the collaboration of leading educators and area schools. This project is funded jointly with the Instructional Materials Development Program.