Investigating Astronomy: A Unique High School Curriculum for All Students

研究天文学：适合所有学生的独特高中课程

• 批准号: 0352180
• 负责人: Jodi Asbell-Clarke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: TERC Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0352180&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Astronomy; Unique; Curriculum; Students

Using a carefully designed sequence of hands-on activities, scientific images and visualizations, and long-term investigations, "Investigating Astronomy" addresses the national science education standards and state frameworks for the study of astronomy. The six modules can be used together for a year- or semester - long high school astronomy course or separately as part of Earth or physical science courses. The six modules address overarching ideas of gravitational attracting systems, energy transformation, structure of matter, space and time, evolution of the universe, how we know what we know and history of astronomy. Each module is driven by a challenge -- an overarching investigation -- that provides real-life application for the astronomical and physical content contained in the activities and offers students a venue for exploring the same fundamental ideas and concepts that engage scientists. These materials, to be available in English and Spanish, provide the first astronomy course developed especially for high schools. They are accompanied by a teacher guide, a teacher professional development website, and family and community materials, including connections to amateur astronomers. A research component embedded in the external evaluation measures the effect of scaffolding on student learning of scientific concepts.

“天文学研究”采用精心设计的一系列实践活动、科学图像和可视化以及长期调查，阐述了天文学研究的国家科学教育标准和国家框架。 这六个模块可以一起用于一年或一学期的高中天文学课程，也可以单独作为地球或物理科学课程的一部分。 这六个模块涉及引力吸引系统，能量转换，物质结构，空间和时间，宇宙演化，我们如何知道我们所知道的和天文学的历史的总体思想。 每个模块都是由一个挑战驱动的-一个总体调查-为活动中包含的天文和物理内容提供现实生活中的应用，并为学生提供一个探索科学家参与的相同基本思想和概念的场所。 这些材料将以英文和西班牙文提供，是专门为高中开设的第一门天文学课程。 同时还附有教师指南、教师专业发展网站以及家庭和社区材料，包括与业余天文学家的联系。 嵌入在外部评价的研究组成部分措施的脚手架对学生学习的科学概念的影响。