PRIME Science

Prime Science提供“Salter‘s Science”的美国改编版，Salter’s Science是一个久经考验的英国中等年级多学科科学项目。这门科学是生命科学、地球科学和物理科学之间的平衡--而不是整合--发展概念理解，并将数学、技术和决策结合起来。这门科学严谨、有趣，对学生很有用。在为六年级到十年级提供结构的主要综合主题中，有太空中的地球、物质的性质等。每个单元都从一个应用程序开始。教师指南是针对一年级教师的，而不是针对他们所在专业的教学。包括学生的先入为主的概念、安全性、背景、介绍内容的方式和评估项目。40个单元中每个单元的视觉刺激、设计吸引人的学生补充材料包含应用程序、学生应该知道的内容、他们需要学习的内容以及他们可以做的活动的摘要。这些材料在美国各地的几个地点由教师和科学教育工作者测试和重写。加州大学伯克利分校的教授们审查了这些材料的内容准确性。英国开发商是设计团队的一员。改编不仅涉及语言翻译，还包括改变数据以引起美国观众的兴趣，并增加单元以满足当地的兴趣和框架。

PRIME Science provides an American adaptation of "Salter's Science"--a well-tested British multi-disciplinary science program for middle grades. The science is balanced - not integrated - between life, earth and physical science, developing conceptual understanding and integrating mathematics, technology and decision-making. The science is rigorous, interesting and useful to the student. Among the major integrative themes that provide structure for grades six through ten are the earth in space, properties of matter, etc. Each unit begins with an application. The teachers' guides are directed at first year teachers, not teaching in their major discipline. Included are student preconceptions, safety, background, ways of introducing the content and assessment items. The visually-stimulating, attractively-designed student supplements for each of the forty units contain the application, a summary of what students should know, what they need to learn and the activities the can do. The materials are tested and rewritten by teachers and science educators at several sites throughout the US. Professors at the University of California/Berkeley review the materials for content accuracy. The British developers are part of the design team. The adaptation involves not only language translation, but changing data to interest American audiences and adding units to meet local interests and frameworks.