Curriculum in Human Biology for the Middle Grades

斯坦福大学的一群科学家和科学教育工作者将为七年级和八年级学生设计一门为期两年的人类生物学课程，编写一份学生教材、一套学生活动和一本教师资源书。这门课程将包括人类生理学的大部分内容，以及与青少年成熟相关的人类学、心理学和社会学的主题。因为这门课程的重点是发展那些将要学习这些材料的年龄组，它应该被证明是高度激励性的。一组中学科学教师将在课堂上测试教材的早期版本，并在修订过程中提供反馈和帮助。计划每年为30人举办三个为期两周的暑期研习班，以促进改写过程。这门人类生物学课程的大学版本的开发得到了纽约卡内基公司的支持；这门课程现在每年提供给几百名斯坦福大学的本科生。卡内基还为当前项目的前期工作提供了支持，斯坦福人类生物学项目的工作人员也可以协助这项新任务。此外，该项目将受益于一组杰出的科学家和教育工作者的建议，他们已同意在该项目的咨询委员会任职。本课程的教师将受到其范围和某些要处理的主题的敏感性的挑战。项目工作人员将在两个层面上提供协助。所有收养的教师将能够获得一套录像带，为印刷材料提供背景资料。在基础课程内容方面需要更多帮助的教师将有机会参加一个专门针对这些材料的暑期学院。该项目需要三年的材料开发、测试和修订时间。评价将在这段期间结束之前开始，并在之后继续进行。在教科书销售版税收入的支持下，教师教育工作还将持续数年。艾迪生-韦斯利出版社的创新项目部将协助开发过程的所有阶段，并将出版和销售成品。公司还将分担教师教育活动的责任。

A group of scientists and science educators at Stanford University will develop a student text, a set of student activities, and a teacher's resource book for a two-year course in human biology designed for seventh and eighth graders. The course will include a large component of human physiology as well as topics in anthropology, psychology, and sociology that are relevant to the maturation of adolescents. Because the course focuses on the development of the very age-group that will study these materials, it should prove to be highly motivational. A team of middle-school science teachers will test early versions of the materials in class, and will provide feedback and assistance as revisions are made. A series of three two-week summer institutes for thirty participants per year has been planned to facilitate the rewriting process. The development of a college-level version of this human biology course was supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York; this course is now offered to several hundred Stanford under-graduates each year. Carnegie has also provided support for preliminary work on the current project, and the staff of the Stanford Human Biology Program is available to assist in the new task. In addition, the project will benefit from the advice of an eminent group of scientists and educators who have agreed to serve on the project's Advisory Board. Teachers of this course will be challenged by its scope and by the sensitivity of some of the topics to be treated. The project staff will assist on two levels. All adopting teachers will be able to acquire a set of videotapes designed to provide background for the print materials. Teachers who need more help with the fundamental course content will have an opportunity to participate in a summer institute that will focus specifically on these materials. The project time-line calls for three years of materials development, testing, and revision. Evaluation will begin before the end of this period and continue beyond. Teacher education efforts, in part supported by royalty revenue from textbooks sales, will continue for several additional years. The Innovative Projects Division of the Addison-Wesley Publishing house will assist in all phases of development process and will publish and market the finished products. The company will also share responsibility for the teacher education activities.