The Urban Environment as the Vehicle for Elementary School Science Teaching

这个为期三年的示范项目旨在教育纽约市大约15所学校的75名小学教师从城市环境中开发材料，作为他们四年级、五年级和六年级课堂科学教学的工具。该项目的独特目标是：(1)从城市环境中找出适合小学课堂学习的问题；(2)为教师提供机会，将儿童所处的城市环境中的文物和问题作为基础科学调查的原材料；(3)展示如何利用孩子们熟悉和重要的问题来激发纽约州基础科学的要求。参与计划的学校将在三年内继续参与计划，管理人员将积极参与，以确保在全校范围内传播。这个项目适合教师提升计划，因为它针对的是贫困的城市学生群体，也因为它计划培养一批教师骨干，这些教师将指导他们的同事，并与学校管理人员合作，计划在全校范围内推广该项目。​非国家科学基金费用分摊约占国家科学基金请求金额的78%。

This three-year demonstration project is designed to educate 75 New York City elementary school teachers from approximately 15 schools to develop materials from the urban environment as the vehicle for science teaching in their 4th, 5th and 6th grade classrooms. Objectives that are unique to the project are: (1) to identify issues from the urban environment which lend themselves to elementary classroom learning; (2) to provide opportunities for teachers to use artifacts and issues from the children's immediate urban environment as the raw material for elementary science investigation; and (3) to demonstrate how the NY State Elementary Science requirements can be motivated using issues which are both familiar and important to children. Participating schools will remain part of the project for all three years, and active involvement of administrators will be engaged to guarantee school-wide dissemination. This project is appropriate for the Teacher Enhancement Program because it targets a needy urban student population and because it plans to develop a cadre of master teachers who will mentor their colleagues and work with school administrators to plan school-wide dissemination of the project. Non-NSF cost-sharing is approximately 78% of the amount requested from NSF.