MPWG: Experiment Based Physics for Girls in Elementary and Middle Schools

小行星9450533 该项目是一个合作的调查员，教授在物理系在密苏里州，和科学协调员的哥伦比亚公立学校系统。 第三年的资金将用于制定和实施一个以实验为基础的实践方案，该方案将向五、六、七年级的女孩介绍物理科学。 对于光学、声学、电学、磁学和力学以及能源/火箭等单位，将开发一系列模块。 每个人都将开发一个概念（例如，光的反射）通过一系列逻辑顺序游戏、简单的实验、小工具、玩具、艺术项目的构建以及使用简单的科学设备和"gee whiz"探索式展览的实验室实验。 通过向女孩们介绍观察和使用相同概念的各种不同方法，我们将让他们看到一个简单的概念是如何在逻辑基础上发展起来的，以理解复杂的科学现象。 通过这个项目，我们希望通过传达科学是有趣的来激励女孩，但更重要的是，让她们熟悉简单的科学设备，培养她们的建筑和实验技能，以及逻辑推理能力。 这项工作最初是为5年级和6年级设立的，作为一个课外项目，每周开会两次，为期四周。 到一九九三至九四学年结束时，在18间学校中，有7间会测试光学单元，而力学单元则会在两间学校测试。 音响和电/磁装置将于1994年秋季准备就绪，供测试。 该方案在女孩、家长和教师中很受欢迎，因此提出了一项建议，即扩大努力，将一些材料纳入5、6和7年级的常规课程， 将七年级学生纳入哥伦比亚的新中学。 该项目的扩大导致第三年增加了以下活动：（a）按年级重新组织教材，并将其分类为课程和课外或辅助课程;（B）将教材纳入5 - 7年级课程;（c）在新的中学开展辅助课程活动（d）培训5 - 7年级的教师;（e）为一个新的能源和火箭单元编制单元。 ***

9450533 Chandrasekhar The project is a collaboration between the investigator, a professor in the Physics Department at the University of Missouri, and the Science Coordinator of the Columbia Public School system. This third year funding will permit development and implementation of an experiment-based, hands-on program which will introduce girls in the 5th, 6th and 7th grades to the physical sciences. For units in Optics, Sound, Electricity, Magnetism and Mechanics, and Energy/Rockets, a series of modules will be developed. Each will develop a concept (e.g., the reflection of light) through a series of logically sequential games, simple experiments, building of gadgets, toys, art projects, and laboratory experiments using simple scientific equipment and "gee whiz" exploratorium-style exhibits. By introducing the girls to a number of different ways of observing and using the same concepts, we will allow them to see how a simple concept is developed on a logical basis to understand complex scientific phenomena. Through this program, we expect to motivate the girls by conveying that science is fun, but more importantly, familiarizing them with simple scientific equipment, developing their building and experimenting skills, and their capabilities of logical reasoning. This effort initially was set up for grades 5 and 6 as an extra-curricular program, meeting twice a week for four weeks. By the end of the 1993-94 academic year, the Optics unit will have been tested in seven of the eighteen schools, and the Mechanics unit in two schools. The Sound and Electricity/Magnetism units will be ready for testing in the Fall 1994. The popularity of the program among girls, parents, and teachers has resulted in this proposal to expand the effort to integrate some of the material into the regular curriculum for grades 5,6 and 7, in addition to to including the 7th graders in Columbia's new middle schools. The project's expansion led to the following additional acti vities for this third year: (a) reorganization of the material by grade levels and its classification as curricular and extra- or co-curricular; (b) integration of the material into the grades 5-7 curriculum; (c) establishing co-curricular activities in the new middle schools (grades 6-7); (d) training for teachers in grades 5-7; and (e) development of modules for one new unit on energy and rockets. ***