A Workshop to Identify and Clarify Nanoscale Learning Goals; February 2006, Menlo Park, California

这个SGER提案是对迫切需要建立内容指南和学习目标的回应，这些内容指南和学习目标可以促进7-12年级学生纳米科学教学资源的开发。 所申请的资金将支持一个由从业人员、纳米科学研究人员、科学教育研究人员和教材开发专家组成的精选小组举行会议，以确定纳米科学的关键思想，并将其按照适合大学预科学习者的逻辑学习顺序进行排序。 目前开发纳米科学教学资源的几个NSF资助的项目面临着将这个新的跨学科主题与传统中学科学课程基础的现有科学教育标准联系起来的困难。 拟议项目将侧重于将纳米级内容与标准挂钩，为每个年级确定适合发展的内容，并为在标准中纳入新的跨学科内容制定愿景。 一套有序的纳米科学学习目标的可用性也将为NSF资助的纳米科学和工程研究中心的教育推广工作提供信息。 该项目将通过国家科学基金会/环境研究所基金会为从业人员编写的专著以及为科学和教育研究人员编写的学术期刊文章来传播研究结果。 所有材料都将张贴在一个公共网站上。

This SGER proposal is a response to the urgent need to establish content guidelines and learning goals that can facilitate the development of nanoscience instructional resources for students in grades 7-12. The requested funds would support a meeting of a select group of practitioners, nanoscience researchers, science education researchers and instructional materials development experts to identify the key ideas in nanoscience and order them in a logical learning sequence appropriate for pre-college learners. Several NSF-funded projects currently developing nanoscience instructional resources are challenged by the difficulty of connecting this new and interdisciplinary topic to existing science education standards that are the foundation of traditional secondary science curricula. The proposed project would focus on relating nanoscale content to the standards, identifying developmentally appropriate content for each grade level and developing a vision for the inclusion of new interdisciplinary content in the standards. The availability of a sequenced set of nanoscience learning goals would also inform the education outreach efforts of the NSF-funded Nanoscience and Engineering Research Centers. The project would disseminate findings through an NSF/ESIE Foundations monograph for practitioners and articles in scholarly journals for science and education researchers. All materials would be posted on a public access web site.