Kids and Data: Measuring and Interpreting Global Change

在这个项目中，我们将把我们先前的建模和基于微机的实验室项目的教育进展扩展到地球科学，这些项目主要在数学和物理科学方面产生。这个项目将把重要的、当前的科学问题带入中学课堂。首先，我们将关注全球变化的科学问题。我们将利用当前的科学研究和技术，并在适当的时候将这些发展转化为适合儿童的工具和活动。我们的目标是通过与实践研究人员的广泛接触和合作，捕捉当前国家和国际努力应对全球变化的兴奋。我们计划通过为学生提供参与建模、数据分析和实验测量的机会，使全球变化问题更容易被学生理解。为此，我们计划开发数值模拟，复杂的数据分析工具，以及用于数据采集的新传感器和系统。该项目将开发和评估纳入这些进步的课堂材料，开展研究，增加我们对学生如何最好地利用这些发展的理解，并将为广泛传播我们的工作提供现实的机制。该项目涉及广泛的个人、机构和企业之间的密切合作。这项工作将由一个杰出的专家研究人员和教育工作者小组指导。

In this project, we will extend to the earth sciences the educational advances of our prior Modeling and Microcomputer Based Lab projects that have generated primarily in mathematics and the physical sciences. This project will bring important, current scientific issues into the secondary school classroom. Initially, we will focus on scientific issues of global change. We will take advantage of current scientific research and technology, and transfer these developments where appropriate to tools and activities suitable for kids. We aim to capture the excitement of current national and international efforts addressing global change through extensive contact and collaboration with practicing researchers. We plan to make issues of global change accessible to an understandable by students by providing opportunities for them to participate in modeling, data analysis, and experimental measurements. To this end, we plan to develop numerical simulations, sophisticated data analysis tools, and new sensors and systems for data acquisition. The project will develop and evaluate classroom material for incorporating these advances, undertake studies that increase our understanding of how students can best use these developments, and will provide realistic mechanisms for wide dissemination of our work. The project involves close collaboration among a broad range of individuals, institutions, and businesses. The work will be guided by an outstanding panel of expert researcher and educators.