Life in the Universe - An Exciting Vehicle for Teaching Integrated Science

该项目建议为教师编制六份指南（三份 小学和中学各年级）。 每个指南将 包含约10个动手科学活动适合从 十到十二周的学习。 活动将呈现多个 科学和一些非科学学科， 通过一个研究学科联系和整合， SETI--“搜寻地外文明”。 的 每个指南中的活动都将以一个外观为开始 在地球、太阳系和宇宙中， 关于地球上的生命 本节以提问结束， 对其他地方生命可能性的想象 宇宙 在这样做的过程中，他们将展示生物学，地球， 科学、物理科学和其他标准课堂教学 科学从一个新的角度来看，他们可能的影响， 其他地方生命的存在。 他们还将整合 科学与一些非科学科目，如艺术，历史， 社会科学，以自然的方式， SETI/宇宙生命连接。 这些活动将 强调动手学习和学习是如何获得的， 作为主题，在某种程度上， 技能和批判性思维。 我们希望， 对SETI的年轻学生来说， 它规定的科目，将提高学生在 科学和维持他们的兴趣，寻求职业生涯中， 科学

This project proposes to develop six Guides for teachers (three each for elementary and middle-school grades). Each Guide will contain about ten hands-on science activities suitable for from ten to twelve weeks of study. The activities will present many sciences and some non-science disciplines that are naturally linked and integrated by a research discipline that uses all of them, SETI--"Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". The activities in each Guide will be organized to begin with a look at the Earth, solar system, and universe, then examine questions about life on Earth. This segments ends with questions and imaginative constructs on the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. In so doing, they will present biology, Earth science, physical science, and other standard classroom taught sciences from a fresh perspective of their possible bearing on the existence of life elsewhere. They will also integrate the sciences with some non-scientific subjects, such as art, history, and social sciences, in a natural manner specified by the SETI/LIFE-IN-THE-UNIVERSE connection. The activities will emphasize hands-on learning and how learning is acquired, as well as subject matter, in a way that develops both communication skills and critical thinking. We expect that the great interest to young students in SETI, with the natural integration of subjects that it mandates, will upgrade students skills in the sciences and sustain their interest in seeking careers in science.