The Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative: Teaching Engineering in the Middle Schools

建议编号：0230609 PRINCIPAL调查员：Richards，Larry研究名称：弗吉尼亚大学主校区TITLE：弗吉尼亚中学工程教育倡议：在中学教授工程学NSF收到日期：06/04/2002摘要该奖项将为中学教师开发强调设计的工程教材。这是一个长期多学科项目的第一阶段：弗吉尼亚中学工程教育倡议(VMSEEI)。这将把选定的工程概念和程序注入到现有的科学和数学课程的背景中。工程学院需要开发方法来吸引和留住学生。中学是我们开始失去潜在学生的时候。在这些年级，他们做出的选择是打开或关闭通往高级科学和数学的大门。如果我们从中学开始，我们可以让学生意识到工程，并激励他们追求他们在工程项目中取得成功所需的科学和数学。跨学科的教员团队已经到位，工科学生、教育学研究生和优秀的当地科学教师也是如此。正在从当地(夏洛茨维尔\阿尔贝马勒)和地区(弗吉尼亚州中部)学校招聘更多的中学教师，弗吉尼亚大学库里教育学院的培训教师将参与这一项目。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230609PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Richards, LarryINSTITUTION NAME: University of Virginia Main CampusTITLE: The Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative: Teaching Engineering in the Middle SchoolsNSF RECEIVED DATE: 06/04/2002AbstractThe award will develop engineering teaching materials which emphasize design for teachersin middle schools. This builds upon the first stage of a long-term multidisciplinary project: the Virginia Middle Schools Engineering Education Initiative (VMSEEI). This will infuse selected engineering concepts and procedures into the context of preexisting science and mathematics classes.Engineering schools need to develop ways to attract and retain students. Middleschool is when we start to lose potential students. In these grades, they make choices thateither open or close the doors to advanced science and mathematics. If we start in middleschools, we can make students aware of engineering, and motivate them to pursue thescience and mathematics they need to succeed in engineering programs.The interdisciplinary faculty team is in place, as are engineering students, educationgraduate students and exceptional local science teachers. Additional middle school teachers are being recruited from local (Charlottesville\Albemarle) and regional (Central Virginia) schools, and teachers-in-training at the Curry School of Education at UVa will participate in this project.