Integration of Computer and Multimedia Technology into Traditional Science Lab Curricula

该项目将在多切斯特县切萨皮克学院的剑桥卫星中心建立一个模型科学实验室。通过采用创新的动手方法，以及直接使用多媒体、数据处理和模拟软件，该实验室将用于让学生参与科学和技术，帮助他们建立科学知识基础，并鼓励他们走上科学或工程领域的职业道路。教师将修改目前在基础生物和物理科学教学中使用的方法，以提供一个增强的学习环境，将学生天生的好奇心作为实验设计的起点。剑桥卫星中心位于多切斯特县，那里27.9%的人口是非裔美国人。1991年，多切斯特县41%的全日制新生和79%的非全日制本科生进入了切萨皮克学院。预计这笔拨款将显著改善从居住在该地区的目标少数民族人口中招募科学候选人的情况。

This project will develop a model science lab at Chesapeake College's Cambridge Satellite Center in Dorchester County. Through the use of innovative, hands-on approaches as well as the direct use of multi-media, data manipulation and simulational software, this laboratory will be used to involve students in science and technology, help them to establish a science knowledge base from which to work, and encourage them to follow a career path in a science or engineering field. Faculty will revise the approach currently employ in teaching the basic biological and physical sciences to provide an enhanced learning environment that will call upon students' natural curiosity as a starting point in the design of experiments. The Cambridge Satellite Center is located in Dorchester County, whose population is 27.9 percent African- American. In 1991, 41% of all first-time, full-time freshmen from Dorchester County attended Chesapeake College, as did 79 percent of all part-time undergraduates in the County. It is anticipated that this grant will markedly improve the recruitment of science candidates from a targeted minority population that resides in the area.