Enhancing Children's Understanding of Science Through Collaborative Creation of Animated Pictoral Models

这个项目的目标是帮助孩子们理解科学现象，允许他们和他们一起工作的成年人创建和操作动画图像模型。该项目结合了建模的深入研究及其对小学环境的影响，以及先进计算技术的发展，即图形重写系统，使模型创建比现在容易得多。该技术将支持互动式课堂讨论，在课堂讨论中，可以根据学生的问题和建议创建、操作和比较模型。它还将支持学生个人或团队在他们自己选择的主题上的项目工作。＊＊＊

9453091 Lewis The goal of this project is to help children understand phenomena in science by allowing them and the adults with whom they work to create and manipulate animated pictorial models. The project combines intensive study of modelling and its impact in an elementary school setting with the development of advanced computing technology, the pictorial rewrite system, that make model creation dramatically easier than it is today. The technology will support interactive classroom discussion, in which models can be created, manipulated, and compared in response to student questions and suggestions. It will and also support project work by individual students or teams working on topics of their own selection. ***