Light Inquiry Through Experiments: Project LITE

通过实验探究光：Project LITE

• 批准号: 0125992
• 负责人: Kenneth Brecher
• 金额: $ 49.95万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-04-01 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0125992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Light; Inquiry; Through; Experiments; Project

Physics (13)This project continues work begun under Award No. 9950551.The project is developing, evaluating, and disseminating educational devices, software, and curriculum materials that center on the nature of light, optics, color, and perception. The major innovation of the project is the introduction of "homelabs" about light into college science courses. These inquiry-based, quantitative laboratory experiences are designed for students to perform in their own homes. Many of these activities take advantage of the unique properties of computers, allowing students to use inexpensive optical materials to manipulate, explore, and study the light coming from their monitors. In the Project LITE "proof-of-concept" phase (funded through NSF Award No. 9950551), the investigators conducted the initial development and testing of a number of these homelabs.The basic educational goal of the homelabs is to encourage individualized hands-on (and "eyes-on") learning. The use of homelabs also seeks to alleviate a major resource problem faced by many large, introductory-level, non-majors university science courses, arising from the limited availability of laboratory space, equipment, and teaching assistants.Project LITE materials are being developed and tested at Boston University. The national impact of individual homelabs is being extended by integrating them into community college, university, and high school courses in astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, and psychology, as well as into science courses for pre-service teachers. The homelabs are also useful for distance education, home learning, and adult continuing education.

物理学（13）本项目是在第9950551号奖励下开始的工作的继续。该项目正在开发、评估和传播以光的性质、光学、颜色和感知为中心的教育设备、软件和课程材料。该项目的主要创新之处是将关于光的“家庭作业”引入大学科学课程。这些基于探究的定量实验室体验专为学生在自己家中进行而设计。许多这些活动都利用了计算机的独特特性，允许学生使用廉价的光学材料来操纵、探索和研究来自显示器的光。在LITE项目的“概念验证”阶段（由NSF奖第9950551号资助），研究人员进行了一些homebooks的初步开发和测试。homebooks的基本教育目标是鼓励个性化的动手（和“眼睛”）学习。使用homestrams也试图缓解一个主要的资源问题所面临的许多大型，入门级，非专业的大学科学课程，所产生的有限的实验室空间，设备和教学assistant.Project LITE材料正在开发和测试在波士顿大学。个人homests的国家影响正在扩大，将其纳入社区学院，大学和高中的天文学，生物学，化学，地球科学，物理学和心理学课程，以及入职前教师的科学课程。家庭教师也可用于远程教育、家庭学习和成人继续教育。