What's the BIG Idea?: Science and Mathematics for Children in Your Public Library

什么是大创意？：公共图书馆中的儿童科学和数学

• 批准号: 0514746
• 负责人: Sally Anderson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Vermont Center for the Book
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0514746&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: What; BIG; Idea; Science; Mathematics

"What's the BIG Idea?" will infuse STEM content and concepts into librarians' practice in order to establish the public library as the site of ongoing, developmentally appropriate, standards-based STEM programming for young children and their families. This project will facilitate the infusion of STEM content and concepts into all aspects of library service -- programming, collections development, displays, newsletters, and bibliographies. Science educators and advisors will review and critique the project's STEM content. Building on prior NSF-funded projects, an experienced team of STEM developers and trainers will provide librarians with the content, skills and processes needed to stimulate innovative STEM thinking. Vermont Center for the Book (VCB) will train and equip librarians from three different library systems -- Houston, Texas, the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System in New York and statewide in Delaware. The strategic impact of this project is ongoing STEM programming for children and families in large, small, urban and rural libraries. VCB will investigate these questions, among others: How can the public library become a STEM learning center? What information, knowledge, training and materials do librarians need to infuse appropriate science and mathematics language and process skills into their practice and programming? Who are the community partners who can augment that effort? How can the answers to these questions be disseminated nationally?Innovation stems from: 1) STEM content to incorporate into their current practice and 2) skills and processes to create their own STEM programming. In addition, the results will be transferable to a wide range of libraries throughout the nation. The Intellectual Merit lies in augmenting librarians' current expertise so that they can incorporate STEM content and materials into all aspects of the library, a universal community resource. The Broader Impact lies in creating a body of content and approaches to programming that librarians all over the country can use to infuse mathematics and science language and content into their interactions with peers, children, families and the community. This will allow inquiry into what and how new informal STEM knowledge and practice can be effectively introduced into a variety of library settings.

”什么是大的想法？“将把STEM内容和概念注入图书馆员的实践中，以使公共图书馆成为为幼儿及其家庭提供持续的、适合发展的、基于标准的STEM项目的场所。该项目将促进STEM内容和概念注入图书馆服务的各个方面-编程，馆藏开发，显示，通讯和书目。科学教育工作者和顾问将审查和批评该项目的STEM内容。在之前NSF资助的项目的基础上，经验丰富的STEM开发人员和培训师团队将为图书馆员提供激发创新STEM思维所需的内容，技能和流程。佛蒙特州图书中心（VCB）将培训和装备来自三个不同图书馆系统的图书馆员--德克萨斯州休斯顿、纽约的克林顿-埃塞克斯-富兰克林图书馆系统和特拉华州的全州图书馆系统。该项目的战略影响是在大型、小型、城市和农村图书馆为儿童和家庭持续开展STEM方案。VCB将调查这些问题，其中包括：公共图书馆如何成为STEM学习中心？图书馆员需要什么样的信息、知识、培训和材料，才能将适当的科学和数学语言和过程技能融入他们的实践和编程中？谁是能够加强这一努力的社区伙伴？如何在全国范围内传播这些问题的答案？创新源于：1）将STEM内容纳入当前实践，2）创建自己的STEM编程的技能和流程。此外，结果将转移到全国各地的图书馆。知识价值在于增强图书馆员目前的专业知识，使他们能够将STEM内容和材料纳入图书馆的各个方面，这是一个普遍的社区资源。更广泛的影响在于创建一套内容和编程方法，全国各地的图书馆员可以使用这些内容和方法将数学和科学语言和内容融入他们与同龄人，儿童，家庭和社区的互动中。这将允许调查什么以及如何新的非正式STEM知识和实践可以有效地引入到各种图书馆设置。