Encouraging High School Student Research in Biology Through Teacher - Scientist Partnerships

这个项目是一个为期五年的项目，将开发12个实地测试的开放式研究项目，这些项目可以被生物教师作为一年级生物学生的调查科学项目。这些研究项目将由生物教师与北卡罗来纳三角研究公园和华盛顿特区的实验室科学家共同开发。国家生物教师协会将协调该项目。12个由两名教师组成的小组将与一所大学或工业界的一名科学家配对，于1993年夏季在他们的实验室工作三个星期。在此期间，团队将与研究人员合作开发一个简单，低成本，开放式的研究项目，可以在他们的课堂上使用。教师将在科学家的实验室中获得实践经验，然后在下一学年与他们自己的学生进行实地测试，并根据需要对其进行修改。一名特殊教育教师将与NABT的工作人员一起为有特殊需要的学生修改这些项目，然后这些项目将在全国范围内进行实地测试。全国范围内的测试结果将用于进一步修改项目。然后，它们将被汇编成一本专著，供全国的生物教师使用。项目成果将通过国家和州科学教师大会以及当地学区的在职讲习班传播。费用分摊相当于国家科学基金会奖金的16.8%。

This project is a five year program that will develop twelve field tested, open-ended research projects that can be used by biology teachers as investigative science projects with first year biology students. The research projects will be developed by biology teachers working with laboratory scientists at the North Carolina Research Triangle Park and in the Washington, D.C. area. The National Association of Biology Teachers will coordinate the project. Twelve teams of two teachers will be paired with a scientist from a university or industry and work in their laboratory for three weeks during the summer of 1993. During this time the team will work with the researcher to develop a simple, low cost, open-ended research project that can be used in their classroom. The teachers will gain hands-on experience with the procedures in the laboratory of the scientist and then field test the experiment with their own students during the following academic year and modify it as needed. A special education teacher will work with the NABT staff to modify the projects for students with special needs, and the projects will then be field tested nationwide. Input from the nationwide testing will then be used to modify the projects further. They will then be compiled into a monograph which will be made available to biology teachers nationwide. Project results will be disseminated through inservice workshops at national and state science teacher conventions and in local school districts. Cost sharing equals 16.8% of the NSF award.