A Year-Long Lab-Based Interdisciplinary Science Course for Non-Science Majors, Particularly Education Majors

跨学科（99）这个项目正在改编Trefil和哈岑的“科学：综合方法”，以及Stanionis的相关实验室手册（纽约，John Wiley and Sons，2000年），为非专业人员提供为期一年的课程。 大部分的适应性工作都是在实验室进行的。 该课程旨在弥补亨廷顿学院大多数非专业和教育专业学生在科学准备方面的严重不足。 它将取代以前提供的一门自然科学课程，这门课程已被证明是无效的。 新课程正在转移重点，强调更多的实验室工作和机会，让学生学习科学家如何通过直接经验进行研究。 新课程纳入了教学法方面的计划改革，包括与实验室做法和课程学习目标相一致的小组练习。 该课程将计算机技术融入课堂，利用现有的许多计算机动画和科学原理演示中的一些。 该课程的主要目标是教学生科学是如何工作的，并向普通观众解释科学材料。 该课程的影响将通过学生课程评估，入学跟踪，标准化测试和进入K-12教学的学生的后续数据相结合进行评估，以涵盖对学生教学和早期职业生涯的影响。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is adapting Trefil and Hazen's "The Sciences: an Integrated Approach," and the associated Laboratory Manual by Stanionis (New York, John Wiley and Sons, 2000) into a year-long course for non-majors. Most of the adaptive work is being made on the laboratory side of the course. The course is intended to redress serious deficiencies in the science preparation of most non-majors and education majors at Huntingdon College. It will replace a previously offered course in the natural sciences that has proven ineffective. The new course is shifting emphasis, stressing more laboratory work and opportunities for students to learn how scientists approach research through direct experiences. The new course is incorporating planned changes in pedagogy, including group exercises, that are compatible with laboratory practices and the learning objectives of the course. The course is incorporating computer technology in the classroom, by taking advantage of several of the many computer animations and demonstrations of scientific principles now available. The prime objective of the course is to teach students how science works, and to explain scientific material to a general audience. The impact of the course will be assessed by a combination of data from student course evaluations, enrollment tracking, standardized tests, and following-up with students who enter K-12 teaching, in order to cover the impact on student teaching and early career experiences in teaching.