Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2)

I2U2：了解宇宙的互动通过提供框架，支持和加强美国大学和实验室的科学实验的教育和推广活动，在此基础上可以开发出丰富的连贯、协作的在线科学教育实验室组合。它维持着一个“教育虚拟组织”，支持参与的教师、学生和实验室内容开发人员，是一个可持续的计划，以提高K-12科学教育的结果。科学家、计算机科学家和教育工作者的I2U2合作直接解决了发展和维持科学队伍的紧迫国家优先事项，并促进公众对我们国家科学计划的复杂合作的欣赏和支持。I2U2开发和维护各种学科的教育实验室的虚拟在线组合，并提供工具和支持服务，帮助开发人员创建这些教育资源。这些实验室通过使用国家网格网络基础设施为教育开辟了新的天地，就像科学越来越多地使用网格一样。这笔赠款提供资源，以完成对试点“电子实验室”的评估和改进，并支持开发正规和非正规教育的原型在线实验室和资源。这些在线实验室的教育内容利用了NSF资助的一系列研究项目的科学知识，这些项目始于物理学，但远远超出了物理学的范畴。

I2U2: Interactions in Understanding the Universe supports and strengthens the education and outreach activities of scientific experiments at U.S. universities and laboratories by providing the framework on which a rich portfolio of coherent, collaborative online science education laboratories can be developed. It maintains an "educational virtual organization" that supports participating teachers, students, and laboratory content developers, and is a sustainable program to enhance the outcome of K-12 science education. The I2U2 collaboration of scientists, computer scientists and educators directly addresses the urgent national priority to grow and sustain the scientific workforce, and to promote the public's appreciation of and support for the complex collaborations of our national scientific programs. I2U2 develops and maintains a virtual online portfolio of educational laboratories for a diverse range of disciplines and provides tools and support services to assist developers in creating these educational resources. These laboratories break new ground by using the national Grid cyberinfrastructure for education in the same way that science increasingly uses the Grid. This grant provides resources to complete evaluation and enhancement of a pilot "e-Lab", and to support the development of prototype online labs and resources for formal and informal education. The educational content of these online labs leverages the science of a range of NSF-funded research projects, beginning with but reaching far beyond physics.