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

这个项目是一个五年计划，将开发12个经过实地测试的开放式研究项目，生物教师可以使用这些项目作为生物一年级学生的调查科学项目。这些研究项目将由北卡罗来纳州研究三角公园和华盛顿特区的生物教师与实验室科学家合作开发。全国生物教师协会将协调该项目。1993年夏天，两名教师组成的12个小组将与一名来自大学或行业的科学家配对，在他们的实验室工作三个星期。在此期间，研究小组将与研究人员合作，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，然后在下一学年与自己的学生现场测试实验，并根据需要进行修改。一名特殊教育教师将与NABT工作人员合作，为有特殊需要的学生修改项目，然后这些项目将在全国范围内进行实地测试。然后，来自全国测试的输入将被用于进一步修改项目。然后，它们将被汇编成一本专著，供全国生物教师使用。项目成果将通过国家和州科学教师大会的在职讲习班以及在当地学区传播。费用分摊相当于NSF奖励的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.