The Science of Atoms and Molecules: Enabling the New Secondary Science Curriculum

许多学校已经修改了高中理科课程的顺序，按物理、化学和生物的顺序进行。原子和分子科学是补充材料，约占课程作业的10%，并提供对原子尺度现象的中心及其在每个学科中的影响的渐进理解。通过升级分子工作台中开发的计算模型，这些材料允许学生体验原子世界，并建立可用于理解和预测宏观现象的模型。围绕分子生物学的概念，发展了原子和分子的基础物理学，以便在化学中进一步发展。学生对这些概念的理解被用来解决分子生物学中的想法。对于这三门学科中的每一门学科，每一门学科都有两个主题，每个主题持续两节课的时间，分别针对四个方面：运动与能量、原子与分子、电荷和光。专业发展教师需要使用这些材料，并将其有效地整合到他们的课程中，评估也是如此。

Many schools have revised the sequence of high school science courses to be taken in the order physics, chemistry and biology. The Science of Atoms and Molecules is supplemental material, constituting about 10% of the course work and providing a progressive understanding of the centrality of atomic scale phenomena and their implications in each discipline. Upgrading the computational models developed in the Molecular Workbench, the materials allow students to experience the atomic world and build models that can be used to understand and predict macroscopic phenomena. Focused on the concepts of molecular biology, the basic physics of atoms and molecules is developed so that it can be further developed in chemistry. Student understanding of these concepts is leveraged to address ideas in molecular biology. For each of the three disciplines, two topics of two class period duration are developed for each of four strands: motion and energy, atoms and molecules, charge, and light. Professional development teachers need to use the materials and integrate them effectively into their courses is also developed as are assessments.