Extending Science Education: Teaching With and About Technology

创新科技博物馆将在其设施中进行 在加利福尼亚州的圣何塞，一个为期三年的项目“扩展科学 教育：使用技术和关于技术的教学”。 二十 中学和二十名高中科学教师， 来自北方和南方加州的一年将与 业界专家及博物馆工作人员，了解最新 创新和发展，有机会进入工业 通过夏季讲习班提供研究和发展设施 活动包括幕后图尔斯参观和亲身体验 博物馆的实验室， 在生物学、计算机科学、化学、物理学和 参与者学校教授的数学。 基于这些现实世界的“挑战活动” 应用程序将由40名，4人， 团队开始在为期两周的夏季研讨会， 教师参与，然后完成并实施了一个 由该教师与其他三名教师组成的小组， 科学他们得到了一个年中电话会议的支持， 参与者、项目工作人员和行业专家， 除了至少一个半天的辅导访问和“作为- 需要项目工作人员和行业专家的”咨询“。 传播包括120名参与者中的每一个 接受所有120项挑战活动的公布， 同时在春季博览会上亲自展示他们的项目 向所有教师和社区成员开放。 由博物馆、学区和行业分担成本 占NSF预算贡献的88.7%。

The Tech Museum of Innovation will conduct at its facilities in San Jose, CA a three-year project "Extending Science Education: Teaching With and About Technology". Twenty middle school and twenty high school science teachers per year from northern and southern California will work with industry experts and museum staff to learn about latest innovations and developments, having access to industry research and development facilities through summer workshop activities including behind-the-scenes tours and hands-on labs at the Museum that replicate industry applications useful in biology, computer science, chemistry, physics, and mathematics taught at participants' schools. "Challenge activities" based upon these real-world applications will be developed by each of forty, four-person teams beginning in the two-week summer workshop for the teacher-participant and then completed and implemented by a team formed by that teacher with three other teachers of science. They are supported by a mid-year teleconference of participants, project staff, and industry experts in addition to at least one half-day coaching visit and "as- needed" consultation by project staff and industry experts. Dissemination includes each of the 120 participants receiving the publication of all 120 challenge activities as well as presenting their projects in person at a spring fair open to all teachers and community members. Cost sharing by the museum, school districts, and industry accounts for 88.7% of the NSF budget contribution.