SBIR Phase I: Interactive Anatomy for Grade 7-12 Students and Teachers

这项小企业创新研究的第一阶段旨在将交互式解剖学学习环境从本科扩展到初中和高中。由于真实的实验室经验的成本和复杂性，初中和高中的生命科学教育受到严重限制。该项目将提供对强大数据源的简单访问，并提供用于操作数据以实现学习目标的工具。这种环境标志着将计算机技术应用于K-12年级解剖学和生理学课程的独特方法，特别是7-12年级，但适用于K-6年级。环境支持一种互动的工作模式，在这种模式中，学生们参与到观察、解释和行动的相同循环中，这是历史上“解剖和草图范式”的特征。这种环境允许学生在学习复杂的计算机技能、解决问题的技巧和健康科学内容的同时，制作他们调查的个人和独特的视觉记录。这项研究产生的工具将大大提高初高中教师和学生访问联邦政府资助的解剖学数据的能力，如国家医学图书馆的可见人体数据集，需要学习基本解剖学。提供这种体验实际上提高了整体的可及性，并且在儿童学习计划的早期提供这种体验可能会增加未来医疗保健专业人员的数量和质量。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I aims to extend an interactive anatomy-learning environment from undergraduate into middle school and high school settings. Life sciences education in middle and high school is severely limited because of the cost and complexity of authentic laboratory experiences. This project will provide easy access to powerful data sources with tools for manipulating the data for a learning objective. This environment marks a unique approach to the application of computer technology to the K-12 anatomy and physiology curriculum, specifically grades 7-12, but with applicability to K-6. The environment supports an interactive work model where students engage in the same cycle of observation, interpretation, and action that characterized the historic "dissect and sketch paradigm." This environment allows students to produce an individual and unique visual record of their investigations, while they learn sophisticated computer skills, problem-solving techniques, and health science content. The tools resulting from this research will greatly enhance the ability of middle and high school teachers and students to access federally funded anatomical data such as the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human data sets, needed to learn basic anatomy. Providing this experience virtually improves overall access, and providing it early in a child's learning program might increase the number and quality of health care professionals in the future..