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

这个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项目资助，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教师和工程学院的教职员工在他们的社区进行外展。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。向K-12学生介绍工程的课程和活动，同时作为科学和数学概念的整合者，将填充该集合。TeachEngineering系列中的课程和活动与年轻人的日常生活有关，从而为学生的学习提供了一个背景。集合课程符合明确的最低质量标准，并与国家科学、数学和技术教育标准保持一致。活动可以用现成的材料以低成本构建，这是一种“小本工程”的方法，鼓励采用该集合。该系列还提供了几个“生活实验室”的门户，这些实验室的结构、设施和过程配备了传感器，可以实时在线提供数据。项目团队还通过举办培训教师和教职员工使用集合的研讨会来接触最终用户。美国工程教育协会的参与保证了长期的可持续性，负责新课程组成部分的认证和测试，以及全国范围内的传播和推广。合作者正在与K-12教师合作，设计系统架构，开发搜索引擎，完善和测试系统和内容，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得到解决。同时，集合内容正在标准化，将各种K-12工程课程转换为具有共同外观和感觉的可搜索的、基于标准的文档。在一组第二级任务中，团队正在填充和测试集合，将其集成到Tufts数字图书馆中，完成初始内容的加载和测试，组织教师和教职员工研讨会，并将集合监督转移到ASEE。将K-12工程拓展课程从单独的网站转移到一个统一的有用的图书馆，为K-12社区提供了可访问的资源，并刺激工程教师和专业人员参与K-12教育。这项工作的更广泛影响是让更多的工程项目参与到K-12的推广中，提供更多的机会来大幅提高一般的STEM素养，并扩大渴望为未来的工程做好准备的年轻人的数量。

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.