BioKIDS: Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species

在四年级到八年级之间，美国学生的成绩和对复杂科学的理解相对于国际同龄人有所下降。对于城市学生来说，这种下降更加明显，在许多城市，标准化考试成绩仍然是全国最低的。通过BioKIDS，小学高年级的学生将接受一个协调的课程序列，这将支持他们在不同的环境中尽早解决自己设计的复杂科学问题，通常是多年，并根据自己的需求和目标提供量身定制的技术支持。学生对生物多样性和其他主题的学习和信念将被跟踪多年，以描绘深入和持续的研究性学习。证据标准将用于提供令人信服的晚期初级调查的例子，可以补充高风险的测试。混合技术将作为学习的变革推动者，并将嵌入到学习活动的许多方面。跨学科小组将会聚在一起，探讨在不同年龄的探究活动中表现复杂科学的有效方法。现有的与底特律城市和全国学校的多年合作关系将成为研究教师支持创新和扩大影响的重要合作伙伴。

Between fourth and eighth grade, American students' achievement and understandings of complex science decline relative to their peers internationally. For urban students these declines are even more pronounced and, in many cities, standardized test scores remain among the nation's lowest. Through BioKIDS, late elementary students will embrace a coordinated curricular sequence that will support them as they grapple with complex science questions of their own design early, often, for multiple years, in multiple contexts and with the support of technologies tailored to their own needs and goals.Student learning and beliefs in biodiversity and other topics will be tracked over multiple years to profile in-depth and sustained inquiry learning. Standards of evidence will be used to provide compelling examples of late elementary inquiry that can compliment high-stakes testing. Hybrid technologies will serve as change agents for learning and will be embedded into many aspects of the learning activities. Interdisciplinary teams will converge on effective means of representing complex science for inquiry activities at different ages. Existing multi-year relationships with urban Detroit and schools nationally will serve as essential partners in the study of teacher support for innovation and scaling towards large impact.