The Development of Advanced Modular Science Inquiries

9453959鲍尔为了使小学教师能够有效地教授和评估实践、探究性的科学教学，本项目将创建并试点测试4个模块，旨在提高和拓宽教师的科学内容知识。拟议的模块将由来自加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳市的教师和加州理工学院的科学家组成的团队开发和试点，并将由纽约州布法罗市、俄亥俄州克利夫兰市、华盛顿州Highline市和阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔市的学校系统合作伙伴进行实地测试。这些模块将有几个明显的特点。首先，每个课程都将基于大多数基于工具包的课程中常见的科学内容。其次，每个模块将由经验丰富的教师和科学家合作开发。第三，这些模块将被设计为由教师-科学家组成的团队在类似于示范性课堂的研究性学习社区中领导其他教师小组使用。材料最初将以桌面出版的方式出版，然后通过支持小学一级探究性科学教学的现有国家学校系统网络进行传播。费用分摊将是国家科学基金基金的10%。＊＊＊

9453959 Bower To enable elementary school teachers to teach and assess hands-on, inquiry-based science instruction effectively, this project will create and pilot-test 4 Modules designed to improve and broaden teacher science content knowledge. The proposed modules, to be developed and piloted by teams of teachers from Pasadena, California and scientists from Caltech, will be field tested by school system partnerships in Buffalo, New York, Cleveland, Ohio, Highline, Washington, and Huntsville, Alabama. The modules will have several distinct characteristics. First, each will be based on a science content common to most kit-based curricula. Second, each module will be developed by a collaboration of experienced teachers and scientists. Third, the modules will be designed to be used by teacher-scientist teams leading groups of other teachers in an inquiry-based learning community like that of an exemplary classroom. Materials will initially be published with desktop publishing and then disseminated via existing national networks of school systems engaged in supporting inquiry science instruction at the elementary school level. The cost sharing will be 10% of the NSF funds. ***