Great Explorations in Math and Science: Disseminating Activity-Based Science Nationwide

劳伦斯科学馆将利用这笔赠款启动一项为期三年的传播工作，旨在将以活动为基础的科学课程《数学与科学大探索》（GEMS）引入全国的中小学课堂，并帮助确定这种传播模式的有效性。GEMS是一个由30个教师指导的系列活动，这些活动既令人兴奋又有趣，又符合学校科学的内容和过程目标。GEMS的活动得到了课堂教师的广泛测试和改进。它们可以用来补充或取代现有的课程，并且只需要容易获得的材料。将通过向全国2000名已经在课堂上实施以活动为基础的教材或对改善小学科学教学感兴趣的教师和教师教育工作者举办的介绍讲习班进行宣传。

The Lawrence Hall of Science will be launching with this grant a three year dissemination effort designed to bring Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS), an activity-based science curriculum, into elementary and middle school classrooms nationwide, and to help determine the effectiveness of such a dissemination model. GEMS is a series of thirty teacher's guides to activities that are exciting and fun yet meet the content and process objectives of school-based science. GEMS activities have been extensively tested and improved by classroom teachers. They can be used to supplement or replace existing curricula, and require only easily accessible materials. Dissemination will be through orientation workshops to 2000 individual teachers and teacher educators across the nation who already implement activity-based materials in the classrooms or who are interested in improving the teaching of elementary school science.