UT SPICA - University of Toledo Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy

UT SPICA - 托莱多大学天文学教学能力支持计划

• 批准号: 9055459
• 负责人: Bernard Bopp
• 金额: $ 27.81万
• 依托单位: University of Toledo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-04-15 至 1995-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9055459&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UT; SPICA; University; Toledo; Support

This project will strengthen and extend support of science education by offering a series of Summer Institutes in Astronomy for science teachers at secondary and elementary levels. This Institute will take place at the University of Toledo (UT), and will use facilities of the Ritter Observatory and Ritter Planetarium on the University of Toledo Campus. The workshops/institutes will take place during the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1993, and will last for three weeks (the first workshop is scheduled for July 22- August 9, 1991). Twenty-five teachers will be selected for each workshop. The teachers will be selected on the basis of their backgrounds and recommendations by their department head or principal. These teachers will be "leaders" who will learn from the UT experience and in turn lead astronomy workshops at local and regional levels for other teachers interested in using astronomy in their courses. The University of Toledo workshop programs will be modeled on the very successful Support Program for Instructional Competency in Astronomy (SPICA) conducted by the Center for astrophysics at Harvard University. It is a prime goal of the UT-SPICA program to use materials and instructional techniques developed by the original (Science Teaching through its Astronomical Roots) STAR-SPICA programs and disseminate them to the teaching community. Cost sharing equals 34% of the NSF award.

该项目将通过为中小学科学教师提供一系列天文学暑期学院，加强和扩大对科学教育的支持。该研究所将设在托莱多大学(UT)，并将使用托莱多大学校园里特天文台和里特天文馆的设施。讲习班/研究所将在1991年、1992年和1993年夏季举行，为期三个星期(第一期讲习班定于1991年7月22日至8月9日举行)。每个工作坊将选出25名教师。教师将根据他们的背景和他们的系主任或校长的推荐来挑选。这些教师将是“领导者”，他们将从德克萨斯大学的经验中学习，并反过来在当地和地区层面为其他有兴趣在其课程中使用天文学的教师领导天文研讨会。托莱多大学的研讨会计划将仿照哈佛大学天体物理中心开展的非常成功的天文学教学能力支持计划(SPICA)。UT-Spica项目的主要目标是使用最初的(通过天文根源进行科学教学)STAR-Spica项目开发的材料和教学技术，并将其传播给教学社区。费用分摊相当于NSF奖励的34%。