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

该SGER提案是对建立内容指导方针和学习目标的迫切需求的回应，这些指导方针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由一组选定的实践者、纳米科学研究人员、科学教育研究人员和教学材料开发专家组成的会议，以确定纳米科学中的关键思想，并按照适合大学预科学习者的逻辑学习顺序对它们进行排序。一些nsf资助的项目目前正在开发纳米科学教学资源，这些项目面临着将这一新的跨学科主题与现有的科学教育标准联系起来的困难，而这些标准是传统中学科学课程的基础。拟议的项目将侧重于将纳米级内容与标准联系起来，为每个年级确定适合发展的内容，并制定在标准中包含新的跨学科内容的愿景。纳米科学学习目标的序列集的可用性也将告知nsf资助的纳米科学与工程研究中心的教育推广工作。该项目将通过面向从业者的国家科学基金会/ESIE基金会专著和面向科学和教育研究人员的学术期刊上的文章传播研究结果。所有材料都将发布在一个公众访问网站上。

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.