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

SGER的这项建议是对建立内容指南和学习目标的迫切需要的回应，这些内容指南和学习目标可以促进为7-12年级的学生开发纳米科学教学资源。申请的资金将用于支持一组选定的从业人员、纳米科学研究人员、科学教育研究人员和教材开发专家的会议，以确定纳米科学的关键思想，并按照适合大学前学习者的逻辑学习顺序进行排序。美国国家科学基金会资助的几个目前正在开发纳米科学教学资源的项目面临着将这一新的跨学科主题与作为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。拟议的项目将侧重于将纳米级内容与标准联系起来，为每个级别确定适合发展的内容，并制定在标准中纳入新的跨学科内容的设想。一套有序的纳米科学学习目标的可获得性也将为国家科学基金会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NSF/ESIE基金会为从业人员撰写的专著和为科学和教育研究人员在学术期刊上发表的文章来传播研究成果。所有材料都将张贴在一个公共访问网站上。

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.