Collaborative Research: TeachEngineering - Hands-on Resources for K-12

该集合项目建立在广泛的K-12工程课程开发的基础上，由NSF GK-12计划资助，与几所工程学院合作创建一个在线工程资源数字图书馆（TeachEngineering集合），供K-12教师和工程学院教师在社区中进行推广。每个机构都已经与许多当地学区合作，以促进工程作为数学和科学融合的工具。课程和活动，介绍工程K-12学生，同时作为科学和数学概念的集成商将填充集合。 TeachEngineering集合中的课程和活动与青少年生活中的日常遭遇有关，从而为学生学习提供了背景。馆藏课程符合明确的最低质量标准，并符合国家科学、数学和技术教育标准。 可以用现成的材料以低成本建造活动-一种鼓励采用《汇编》的“小本工程”办法。该数据集还提供了一个进入若干“活实验室”的门户-装有传感器的结构、设施和流程，提供真实的在线数据。 项目小组还通过举办讲习班，培训教师和教职员工使用《汇编》，与最终用户进行接触。美国工程教育协会的参与保证了长期的可持续性，负责认证和测试新的课程组成部分，并在全国范围内传播和推广该系列。 合作者正在设计系统架构，开发搜索引擎，并与K-12教师合作改进和测试系统和内容，包括“生活实验室”组件。与其他NSDL集合的集成和互操作性正在解决。同时，集合内容正在标准化，将各种K-12工程课程转换为可搜索的，基于标准的文档，具有共同的外观和感觉。 在一组二级任务中，该团队正在填充和测试集合，将其集成到塔夫茨数字图书馆，完成初始内容的加载和测试，进行教师和教师研讨会，并将集合监督转移到ASEE。 将K-12工程外展课程从各个站点移动到统一和有用的图书馆，为K-12社区提供可访问的资源，并刺激工程教师和专业人员参与K-12教育。这项工作的更广泛的影响是在K-12外展中参与更多的工程项目，提供了更多的机会，以显着提高一般STEM素养，并扩大了渴望为未来工程做好准备的青少年群体。

This Collections project builds on extensive K-12 engineering curriculum developments funded by the NSF GK-12 program with several engineering colleges collaborating to create an on-line digital library of engineering resources (the TeachEngineering Collection) for use by K-12 teachers and engineering college faculty conducting outreach in their communities. Each institution is already partnered with numerous local school districts to promote engineering as a vehicle for math and science integration. Lessons and activities that introduce engineering to K-12 students while serving as integrators of science and mathematics concepts will populate the Collection. The lessons and activities in the TeachEngineering Collection relate to everyday encounters in the lives of youngsters, thus providing a context for student learning. Collections curricula meet explicit minimum quality criteria and are aligned with national science, mathematics and technology educational standards. Activities can be constructed at low cost with readily available materials -- an "engineering on a shoestring" approach to encourage adoption of the Collection. The Collection also provides a portal to several "living laboratories" -- structures, facilities and processes instrumented with sensors, providing data on-line in real time. The project team also is reaching out to end-users by promoting workshops that train teachers and faculty to use the Collection. The American Society for Engineering Education involvement guarantees long-term sustainability, with responsibility for certification and testing of new curricular components, and nationwide dissemination and promotion of the Collection. The collaborators are designing the system architecture, developing the search engine, and refining and testing the system and contents, including the "living laboratories" component, in collaboration with K-12 teachers. Integration and interoperability with other NSDL collections are being addressed. Concurrently, the Collection content is being standardized, converting a variety of K-12 engineering curricula into searchable, standards-based documents with a common look and feel. In a set of second-level tasks, the team is populating and testing the Collection, integrating it into the Tufts Digital Library, completing the loading and testing of the initial contents, conducting teacher and faculty workshops, and transferring the Collection oversight to ASEE. Moving K-12 engineering outreach curricula from individual sites to a unified and useful library provides accessible resources for the K-12 community and stimulates the involvement of engineering faculty and professionals in K-12 education. Broader impacts of this work are engaging more engineering programs in K-12 outreach, providing the expanded opportunities to dramatically increase general STEM literacy and expanding the pool of youngsters eagerly prepared for a future in engineering.