Pilot Project: Research on Serious Games for Geoscience Education

试点项目：地学教育严肃游戏研究

• 批准号: 0608082
• 负责人: Brian Slator
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: North Dakota State University Fargo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0608082&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Project; Research; Serious; Games

Pilot Project: Research on Serious Games for Geoscience EducationThis award will expand the educational resources available through The Geology Explorer, an interactive virtual environment (IVE) developed at North Dakota State University for the purpose of teaching geoscience. The "Geology Explorer" program, in which students simulate landing on a newly discovered planet to identify rocks and minerals and model geologic relationships and structures, originated as a college level course now used at multiple universities. The software has been recently modified so as to be age appropriate for use in grades 6 through 12. During this project, two new geoscience modules that can be incorporated into secondary grade level Earth science, chemistry, or math classrooms are being designed and implemented. The first is a probability module using gold exploration as the motivating story. The second module is being developed in collaboration with local chemistry teachers. Standards-based curricula and assessments to support these new modules are also being developed. The effect these new modules have on students' ability to connect skills used in geoscience to those used in other career opportunities and science disciplines and students' attitudes regarding perceived relevance of math and science beyond high school is being evaluated. At the college level, rigorous evaluation has consistently demonstrated that IVE students perform higher on assessments than those exposed to more traditional instruction.

试点项目：用于地球科学教育的严肃游戏研究该奖项将通过“地质探索者”扩展可用的教育资源，这是北达科他州立大学为教授地球科学而开发的交互式虚拟环境（IVE）。在“地质探索者”项目中，学生们模拟在一颗新发现的行星上着陆，以识别岩石和矿物，并模拟地质关系和结构。这个项目最初是一门大学水平的课程，现在被多所大学采用。该软件最近进行了修改，使其适合6至12年级的学生使用。在这个项目中，正在设计和实施两个新的地球科学模块，它们可以被纳入中学地球科学、化学或数学课堂。第一个是概率模块，以淘金为激励故事。第二个模块是与当地化学教师合作开发的。支持这些新模块的基于标准的课程和评估也正在开发中。正在评估这些新模块对学生将地球科学技能与其他职业机会和科学学科技能联系起来的能力的影响，以及学生对高中以后数学和科学的感知相关性的态度。在大学阶段，严格的评估一致表明，IVE的学生比那些接受传统教育的学生在评估中表现更好。