Biological Literacy Through Classroom Community

课堂社区的生物素养

• 批准号: 9156087
• 负责人: Jo Handelsman
• 金额: $ 7.77万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-04-15 至 1995-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9156087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biological; Literacy; Through; Classroom; Community

Biology teaching should incorporate the process of scientific inquiry, not just the information resulting from it. Only by involving students directly in scientific experimentation and intellectual debate can they be expected to develop the fundamental understanding of biology required for biological literacy. Engaging students in this process demands a classroom that motivates learning, teaches analytical skills as well as information, and captures the spirit of curiosity and questioning. To meet these demands for the broadest spectrum of students we will address three objectives. First, we will design and evaluate simple, low-cost experimental exercises that illustrate fundamental biological principles and can be conducted in an introductory course without a laboratory. Second, we will construct a set of exercises in scientific study skills that will address the difficulty, shared by many college students, of learning scientific material. The innovative aspect of our approach to study skills is that we will teach them in a forum that is tightly coupled with the biology instruction, which will provide for exchange between the biology instructor and the study skills instructor. Finally, drawing on cooperative learning approaches that are highly effective in other fields, we will develop exercises that can be used to involve all members of small or large classes in active thinking and learning. The product of this project will be a published manual that will explore the philosophy of building community in the classroom and will describe the exercises in experimentation, study skills, and cooperative learning that can be incorporated into introductory-level biology curricula.

生物教学应该包含科学探究的过程，而不仅仅是由此产生的信息。只有让学生直接参与科学实验和智力辩论，才能期望他们培养对生物学素养所需的基本生物学理解。让学生参与到这个过程中来，需要一个能激发学习的课堂，教授分析技能和信息，并抓住好奇和质疑的精神。为了满足最广泛的学生需求，我们将实现三个目标。首先，我们将设计和评估简单、低成本的实验练习，这些实验练习可以说明基本的生物学原理，并且可以在没有实验室的入门课程中进行。其次，我们将构建一套科学学习技巧的练习，以解决许多大学生在学习科学材料时所面临的困难。我们在学习技巧方面的创新之处在于，我们将在一个与生物教学紧密结合的论坛上教授这些技巧，这将为生物教师和学习技巧教师提供交流的机会。最后，借鉴在其他领域非常有效的合作学习方法，我们将开发可用于让小班或大班的所有成员积极思考和学习的练习。这个项目的成果将是一本出版的手册，它将探讨在课堂上建立社区的理念，并将描述实验、学习技巧和合作学习方面的练习，这些都可以纳入初级生物学课程。