Brownfield Action: Digital Worlds and Inquiry-based Learning ¡ A New Teaching Model

棕地行动：数字世界和探究式学习新的教学模式

• 批准号: 0341315
• 负责人: Peter Bower
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Barnard College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-15 至 2006-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0341315&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Brownfield; Action; Digital; Worlds; Inquiry

Earth System Science (40) The Brownfield Action project is creating, testing, and evaluating a hydrology module based on a highly successful pedagogical model for teaching introductory environmental science called Brownfield Action (BA). BA is an interactive web-based learning simulation, in which students explore and solve real-world environmental problems in a three-dimensional digital space. Used as the laboratory component of Barnard College's environmental-science course for four years, BA challenges students to investigate fictional groundwater contamination by reconstructing a detailed narrative from diverse forms of evidence, including sociohistorical and scientific data. As a Proof-of-Concept test of the modularization of the BA curriculum, the PIs are creating and testing this module in a hydrology course at Connecticut College. The new module is being constructed around a Phase Two delineation of the contaminant plumes that are embedded in the BA digital world. The instructor is using the web-based interactive feature to introduce students to the BA interface, database, base maps, historically relevant documentation, and to the assignment. Students are using all the tools available in BA (e.g., excavation, ground penetrating radar, and drilling and push technology) to obtain data. The intellectual merit of the project lies in its integration of interdisciplinary information through inquiry-based, learner-centered knowledge construction within a multimedia environment. Dissemination of BA will have a broad impact on public knowledge of environmental science by bringing these methods to instructors who teach non-science majors, women, and minorities.

地球系统科学 (40) Brownfield Action 项目正在创建、测试和评估一个水文模块，该模块基于一个非常成功的教学模型，用于教授入门环境科学，称为 Brownfield Action (BA)。 BA是一种基于网络的交互式学习模拟，学生在三维数字空间中探索和解决现实世界的环境问题。四年来，文学学士学位作为巴纳德学院环境科学课程的实验室组成部分，要求学生通过从不同形式的证据（包括社会历史和科学数据）中重建详细的叙述来调查虚构的地下水污染。 作为文学学士课程模块化的概念验证测试，PI 正在康涅狄格学院的水文学课程中创建并测试该模块。新模块是围绕 BA 数字世界中污染物羽流的第二阶段描述而构建的。讲师使用基于网络的交互功能向学生介绍 BA 界面、数据库、底图、历史相关文档和作业。学生正在使用文学学士中提供的所有工具（例如挖掘、探地雷达以及钻推技术）来获取数据。该项目的智力优势在于它通过多媒体环境中基于探究、以学习者为中心的知识构建来整合跨学科信息。 BA 的传播将把这些方法带给教授非科学专业的教师、女性和少数族裔，从而对环境科学的公众知识产生广泛的影响。