BSCS Science: An Inquiry Approach -- A Phase II Proposal

在第一阶段，BSCS开发了两个学期的教学材料——一个为九年级，一个为十年级——使用评估驱动的开发过程。基于课堂的实地试验证明，学生在不同的学校环境和不同的能力群体中都有显著的学习成绩。BSCS还开发了针对国家科学教育标准的6-11年级教材的课程框架。每年学生学习生命、地球/空间和物理科学的基本概念。此外，每年都有一个关于科学探究的短单元和一个为学习者提供应用理解和整合科学的新环境的单元。在这个项目中，BSCS完成了九年级和十年级的基于研究的模块开发，并继续为十一年级工作，以便以多学科方法解决高中科学标准，使学生比传统的更深入地了解地球/空间科学和物理科学。除了学生材料外，还开发了注释教师版本和教师资源CDROM。为实施多学科科学制定了全面的教师发展指南，并为学区提供了全面的实施支持。

Under Phase I, BSCS has developed two semesters of instructional materials -- one for grade nine and one for grade ten -- using an assessment-driven development process. Classroom based field trials produced evidence that students had significant gains in student learning across different school settings and different ability groups. BSCS also developed a curriculum framework for materials for grade 6-11 that addresses the National Science Education Standards. Each year students learn fundamental concepts in life, Earth/space and physical science. In addition, in each year, there is a short unit on scientific inquiry and a unit that presents the learner with a new context for applying understandings and integrating the sciences. In this project BSCS completes the research based module development for grades nine and ten, and continues the work for grade eleven, so that the standards for high school science are addressed in a multidisciplinary approach that exposes students to both Earth/space science and physical science to greater depth than traditionally. In addition to the student materials, annotated teacher editions and a teacher resource CDROM are developed. A comprehensive teacher development guide for implementing multidisciplinary science is produced along with comprehensive implementation support for school districts.