Teaching Hands-On Investigative Biology in High School "On AShoestring"

迫切需要在高中课程中更多地纳入动手探究科学。然而，目前的学校预算往往缺乏资金来购买足够的材料和设备进行动手科学。解决这一问题的一种直接办法是编写和散发一份实验室手册，介绍需要很少或根本不需要钱来执行的有效的动手调查活动。全国生物教师协会（NABT）的工作人员计划聘请优秀的、有经验的高中教师来编写和实地测试这些活动，并根据特殊学生群体（包括身体残疾、天才和弱势群体）的需要对其进行修改。NABT的工作人员将监督项目的所有阶段，生物学家和科学教育工作者将审查材料以确保其质量。然后，最成功的活动将通过邮寄和在职讲习班的方式分发给全国的高中生物教师。该项目的目标是提高生物教学作为一个过程，而不是作为事实的收集。该项目的目标是通过(1)为教师提供以过程为导向的生物学来实现动手探究性生物学的教学。高中生物老师和他们的学生将从这个项目中受益。

A strong need exists for more inclusion of hands-on investigative science in the high school curriculum. Current school budgets, however, often lack of money to purchase adequate materials and equipment for hands-on science. One immediate remedy for the problem is the production and dissemination of a laboratory manual of effective hands-on investigative activities that require little or no money to implement. The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) staff plans to recruit excellent, experienced high school teachers to write and field test these activities, modifying them as needed for special populations of students, including the physically disabled, gifted, and disadvantaged. NABT staff members will oversee all phases of the project, and biologists and science educators will review materials to assure their quality. The most successful activities will then be distributed to high school biology teachers throughout the country through mailings and in-service workshops. The goal of the project is to increase the teaching of biology as a process rather than as a collection of facts. The objectives of the project are to enable the teaching of hands-on investigative biology by (1) providing teachers process-oriented biology. High school biology teachers and their students will benefit from this project.