A Core Course in Scientific Inquiry

科学探究核心课程

• 批准号: 9652981
• 负责人: Hugh Hudson
• 金额: $ 17.98万
• 依托单位: University of The Incarnate Word
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9652981&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Core; Course; Scientific; Inquiry

The science literacy of college graduates is not acceptable for today's technological society. To hold jobs and to be responsible, voting citizens, non-science graduates need fewer facts from specific science disciplines and more skills with which to understand, approach, and reason about science issues. This project will develop a science course designed to instill an awareness of how science is practiced and the skills needed to approach science issues with responsible confidence. While addressing a national need for increased science literacy, it will also fulfill the science requirement in the core curriculum. The primary audience for this new course will be students in the liberal arts, education, and the social sciences. The project will reach its desired goal by designing a course in which students carry out hands-on science activities in a controlled discovery environment. Students will not be given the content details in a formal lecture setting. Rather they will be given activities that bring out important variables in observed phenomena, instead of in theories. The course and its development will be guided by four objectives: to train students in the process of observation, to assist students in developing explanations for what they observe, to assist students to create models which will test their explanations, and to lead to students to apply their explanations to other examples. At the conclusion of this project a complete, stand alone one semester course in scientific inquiry will be packaged. There will be a full series of student activities that can be conducted in an 80 minute class period with preparatory material, further explanations for students and resource material for teachers.

对于当今的技术社会，大学毕业生的科学素养是不可接受的。 为了担任工作和负责任，投票公民，非科学毕业生需要从特定的科学学科中的事实和更多的技能来理解，接近科学问题的理由。 该项目将开发一个科学课程，旨在灌输对科学的实践方式以及以负责任的信心处理科学问题所需的技能。同时，它将满足科学素养提高的需求，还将满足核心课程中的科学要求。这项新课程的主要受众将是文科，教育和社会科学的学生。 该项目将通过设计一门课程来实现其期望的目标，在该课程中，学生在受控的发现环境中进行动手科学活动。在正式的演讲环境中，不会为学生提供内容详细信息。相反，他们将获得在观察到的现象中而不是理论中带来重要变量的活动。 该课程及其发展将以四个目标为指导：在观察过程中培训学生，以帮助学生为他们观察到的内容开发解释，以帮助学生创建模型，以测试他们的解释，并导致学生将其解释应用于其他示例。 在该项目结束时，将打包一个完整的，独立的科学询问课程。将有一系列的学生活动，可以在80分钟的课程中进行准备，并为学生提供进一步的解释以及对教师的资源材料。