Weather, Climate, and Global Change: Linking Models and Data in Science Education

天气、气候和全球变化：连接科学教育中的模型和数据

• 批准号: 9973179
• 负责人: Paul Horwitz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2003-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9973179&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Weather; Climate; Global; Change; Linking

This project uses advanced data collection and simulation technology to help students link models to data. In the context of collecting temperature data and modeling heat flows, students will work their way up from simple objects, characterized by a single temperature, to larger and larger systems that exhibit increasingly complex behaviors. We will create technology that enables the simultaneous collection and analysis of data from multiple, spatially separated but otherwise identical probes. We will also implement a modeling and simulation tool with which students can describe their models to the computer, run them as simulations, and compare the results to the experimental data they have collected. We will work with seventh and eighth grade students at two schools, one urban and one suburban. We will continue to evaluate the knowledge, thought patterns, and attitudes toward science of these students as they enroll in science courses in high school. Our goal is to help students recognize that neither theories nor experiments embody ultimate truth in science, that either may be iteratively revised to account for anomalies, and that the creation of scientific knowledge is ultimately driven by this interplay.

该项目使用先进的数据收集和模拟技术，帮助学生将模型与数据联系起来。在收集温度数据和对热流建模的背景下，学生将从以单一温度为特征的简单对象向上发展到表现出越来越复杂行为的越来越大的系统。我们将创造能够同时从多个空间上分离但在其他方面相同的探测器收集和分析数据的技术。我们还将实现一个建模和仿真工具，学生可以使用该工具向计算机描述他们的模型，将它们作为模拟运行，并将结果与他们收集的实验数据进行比较。我们将与两所学校的七年级和八年级学生合作，一所城市学校，一所郊区学校。我们将继续评估这些学生在高中学习科学课程时的知识、思维模式和对科学的态度。我们的目标是帮助学生认识到，理论和实验都不能体现科学的终极真理，两者都可以反复修改以解释异常情况，科学知识的创造最终是由这种相互作用推动的。