Physics and Life: Summer Institutes for Secondary Science Teachers

该项目名为“物理与生活：中学科学教师暑期学院”，计划在1989年、1990年和1991年为8-12年级的物理和生命科学教师举办一系列密集的暑期学院。他们将把科学和科学史结合起来，并通过强化的实验室培训加以加强。大约20名候选人将主要从明尼苏达州和中西部北部地区挑选出来，参加每个学院，至少有一半的名额将留给需要食宿的教师。教师将重复重要的历史实验，以了解科学概念的发展和物理与生物的相互丰富。其中许多实验将使用简单而廉价的仪器进行，教师可能会将其用作演示或实验室。在每个领域，历史研究都将在现代生物物理实验中达到顶峰。通过将这些课程的一部分纳入他们的学校课程，教师将展示不同科学及其实际应用之间的联系；提高学生对科学过程的理解，提高学生的实验技能和解决问题的能力，使学习更具娱乐性，从而增加科学课程的入学率，提高学生的科学水平。1989年的研究所将研究电力及其在生物和医学方面的应用。课程将基于从格雷和杜菲到杜博伊斯-雷蒙德和亥姆霍兹的作品和发现。1990年的研究所将专注于光学和视觉。课程将以从阿基米德到麦克斯韦的作品为基础。1991年的研究所将研究声学和听力。讨论和实验将基于从伽利略到亥姆霍兹的原创作品。费用分担大约是国家科学基金会要求的24%。

The project; Physics and Life: Summer Institutes for Secondary Science Teachers, proposes a series of intensive summer institutes for teachers of physics and life sciences, grades 8-12, to be held in 1989, 1990 and 1991. They will combine science and the history of science, amplified by an intensive laboratory training. Some twenty candidates will be selected primarily from around Minnesota and the upper mid-west to participate in each institute and at least half of the spaces will be reserved for those teachers who will require room and board. Teachers will repeat important historical experiments in order to understand the development of scientific concepts and the mutual enrichment in physics and biology. Many of these experiments will be conducted with a simple and inexpensive apparatus and may be used by teachers as demonstrations or labs. In each field, the historical study will culminate in modern biophysical experiment. By incorporating parts of these courses into their school curricula teachers will demonstrate the links between different sciences and their practical applications; enhance their students' understanding of the scientific process, improve their experimental skills and problem-solving techniques, make learning more entertaining, and as a result increase the enrollment into science courses and improve students' proficiency in science. The 1989 institute will be on electricity and its applications to biology and medicine. The course will be based on works and discoveries from Gray and Dufay, to Du Bois-Reymond, and Helmholtz. The 1990 institute will focus on optics and vision. The course will be based on works from Archimedes to Maxwell. The 1991 institute will be on acoustics and hearing. The discussion and experiments will be based on original works from Galileo to Helmholtz. Cost-sharing is approximately 24% of the National Science Foundation request.