Energizing Physics Teachers for the Twenty-First Century

激发二十一世纪物理教师的活力

• 批准号: 9752342
• 负责人: Ralph Zee
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-01 至 2002-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9752342&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Energizing; Physics; Teachers; Twenty; First

The College of Education and the College of Engineering at Auburn University (AU) propose to develop a comprehensive four part program to enhance physical science education at the K-12 level. The effort is based on a course entitled "Engineering Physics for Teachers" newly developed by the two principal investigators at AU. The course is designed to prepare teachers to meet national science standards via problem solving using dimensional analysis, appropriate graphing, logical reasoning and teamwork. The course theme of energy is taken from the 1995 "Alabama Course of Study: Science" developed by the State of Alabama Department of Education. Problems, demonstrations, and projects use energy-related technologies to which the general public can relate. The four efforts of this project are: (1) to refine and improve the existing course, (2) to expand the target audience to future and practicing teachers in Birmingham using real time video link with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, (3) to develop accompanying resource materials in the form of printed matter and CD-ROM, (4) to incorporate and integrate resources developed in the course into the "Science in Motion" van program, a successful state-wide K-12 outreach effort. The reform is aimed at: (1) providing teachers with information on state-of-the-art technologies so they can describe 21st century science in their classrooms, with special emphasis on energy usages in homes and automobiles, (2) integrating physics, mathematics and engineering with methods of teaching, (3) enhancing interest in science through projects that involve energy and engineering concepts, and (4) providing teachers with a systematic approach to quantitative problem solving. Implementation of the project tasks will benefit both pre-service and in-service science teachers throughout the state of Alabama.

教育学院和工程学院在奥本大学（Au）建议制定一个全面的四部分计划，以加强在K-12水平的物理科学教育。这项工作是基于一门课程，题为“工程物理教师”新开发的两位主要研究人员在Au。该课程旨在通过使用维度分析，适当的图形，逻辑推理和团队合作解决问题，使教师能够满足国家科学标准。能源的课程主题取自1995年由亚拉巴马州教育部开发的“亚拉巴马学习课程：科学”。问题、示范和项目使用与能源有关的技术，公众可以与之联系。该项目的四项努力是：（1）改进和提高现有课程，（2）利用与伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学的真实的实时视频链接，将目标受众扩大到伯明翰未来的和正在实习的教师，（3）以印刷品和光盘的形式开发配套的资源材料，（4）将课程中开发的资源纳入“运动中的科学”货车计划，这是一项成功的全州K-12推广工作。 改革的目的是：（1）为教师提供最先进技术的信息，使他们能够在课堂上描述21世纪的科学，特别强调家庭和汽车中的能源使用，（2）将物理，数学和工程与教学方法相结合，（3）通过涉及能源和工程概念的项目提高对科学的兴趣，（4）为教师提供系统的定量问题解决方法。项目任务的实施将使整个亚拉巴马州的职前和在职科学教师受益。