Enriching American Science Education and Global Understanding Through New Technologies

通过新技术丰富美国科学教育和全球理解

• 批准号: 9350523
• 负责人: Merrill Ridd
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: EDU-TEC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-08-01 至 1995-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9350523&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enriching; American; Science; Education; Global

9350523 Ridd A growing world-wide supply of environmental data, the availability of sophisticated and inexpensive computer-based hardware, and the development of user-friendly, flexible software makes possible the development of modules which can put students in touch with the world at any scale from the locality of the student to the world at large. Many national and international organizations are networked and committed to collecting and sharing increasing volumes of Earth-environmental data. There is a growing awareness of global change and environmental stress and the responsibility humans have for these conditions and their amelioration. Students can and should be part of the quest to explore these questions in new ways. Through hands-on, image analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) digital map manipulation, secondary school students can overlay remote-sensed data to see vital relations at the interface between humans and the natural world. Two modules, of two weeks duration, are developed in this pilot project: One is global in perspective such as decertification or tropical deforestation; the other concerns local conditions such as water use. The modules are developed by teachers, science educators and scientists working together and are field tested in diverse locations. The software runs on a 386 equivalent computer with enough memory to accommodate ArcView files and 4 MB of RAM. The project is governed by a national advisory board and has two external evaluators to document the effects on students and teachers. ***

小行星9350523 世界范围内不断增加的环境数据供应，先进而廉价的计算机硬件的可用性，以及用户友好、灵活的软件的开发，使得开发模块成为可能，这些模块可以使学生在任何规模上与世界接触，从学生所在地到整个世界。 许多国家和国际组织已联网，并致力于收集和分享越来越多的地球环境数据。 人们日益认识到全球变化和环境压力以及人类对这些条件及其改善的责任。 学生可以而且应该成为以新的方式探索这些问题的探索的一部分。 通过实际操作、图像分析和地理信息系统数字地图操作，中学生可以叠加遥感数据，了解人与自然界之间的重要关系。 在这个试验项目中，开发了两个为期两周的单元：一个是全球性的，如去认证或热带森林砍伐;另一个是当地条件，如水的使用。 这些模块由教师、科学教育工作者和科学家共同开发，并在不同地点进行实地测试。 该软件运行在386等效计算机上，具有足够的内存来容纳ArcView文件和4 MB RAM。 该项目由一个国家咨询委员会管理，并有两名外部评估人员记录对学生和教师的影响。 ***