Workshop Physical Science: Project Based Science Education for Future Teachers, Citizens, and Parents

物理科学研讨会：面向未来教师、公民和家长的基于项目的科学教育

• 批准号: 9555188
• 负责人: Priscilla Laws
• 金额: $ 18.32万
• 依托单位: Dickinson College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-02-01 至 2000-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9555188&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Physical; Science; Project; Based

The Workshop Physical Science Project is a major effort to increase the effectiveness of science education for our future K-8 teachers, parents, and citizens by developing a sequence of introductory laboratory courses in physical science. We seek to integrate guided inquiry with student- directed projects in order to help students acquire a better understanding of what practicing scientists actually do. This hands-on approach is aimed at changing the focus of introductory science courses from covering a large number of topics-which promotes memorizing facts and formulae- to helping students develop science process skills that will give them the confidence to undertake future investigations independently. A modular design of the curricular materials will provide ample flexibility for instructors at other colleges and universities to adapt the program to their own environments. These materials will be developed for use in teacher preparation programs, general studies courses for non-science majors, and courses designed to inspire freshmen and sophomores to pursue science as a major. This proposed four-year project began in September 1994 under a three-year grant from the Charles A. Dana Foundation, with the expectation that additional funds would be solicited for its completion. We are asking FIPSE to underwrite approximately half of the costs for project years two and three, and all of the costs for year four. This will allow us to create and evaluate cutticular materials for a two- semester course sequence and to complete a two-year pilot test of the materials at three different institutions, Dickinson College, the University of Nebraska, and Moorhead State University in Minnesota. In addition, a portion of the funds will be used to initiate an active dissemination program in the fourth year of the project involving talks, articles, and workshops, as well as consultations with several institutions interested in using the materials.

该车间物理科学项目是一项重大努力，以提高科学教育的有效性，为我们未来的K-8教师，家长和公民通过开发一系列的物理科学入门实验室课程。 我们寻求将引导式探究与学生指导的项目相结合，以帮助学生更好地了解实践科学家实际上在做什么。 这种实践方法旨在改变入门科学课程的重点，从涵盖大量主题（促进记忆事实和公式）到帮助学生发展科学过程技能，使他们有信心独立进行未来的调查。 课程材料的模块化设计将为其他学院和大学的教师提供充分的灵活性，以适应他们自己的环境。 这些材料将被开发用于教师准备计划，非科学专业的一般研究课程，以及旨在激励新生和大学生追求科学作为一个主要的课程。 这一拟议的四年期项目于1994年9月开始，由Charles A.达纳基金会，预计将为完成该项目筹集更多资金。 我们要求FIPSE承担项目第二年和第三年大约一半的费用，以及第四年的所有费用。 这将使我们能够为两个学期的课程序列创建和评估切割材料，并在三个不同的机构，迪金森学院，内布拉斯加大学和明尼苏达州的穆尔黑德州立大学完成为期两年的试点测试。 此外，部分资金将用于在项目的第四年启动一个积极的传播方案，包括会谈、文章和讲习班，以及与对使用这些材料感兴趣的几个机构进行磋商。