Fossil Finders: Using Fossils to Teach about Evolution, Inquiry and Nature of Science
化石发现者:利用化石教授进化论、探究和科学本质
基本信息
- 批准号:0733223
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 149.84万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:美国
- 项目类别:Continuing Grant
- 财政年份:2008
- 资助国家:美国
- 起止时间:2008-01-01 至 2012-08-31
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
The Fossil Finders project engages children in classrooms across the country in an authentic investigation of Devonian fossils. Goals include supporting children in the use of evidence in constructing explanations of natural phenomena, and motivating culturally and linguistically diverse groups of children to engage in learning science. The four-year project is a collaboration of Cornell University Department of Education and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in Ithaca, New York. Classrooms from two grade spans (5th/6th and 7th/8th) receive shipped samples of layers of shale from an Upstate New York outcrop. Deliverables include development and testing of an interactive website where children learn how to identify the fossils they find and add their own data to an emerging database. A key focus is on classrooms with a high proportion of underrepresented groups of children (English language learners, [ELL] and children whose race and gender are not well represented in the sciences). Developed materials involve cutting-edge STEM interdisciplinary science content, including environmental science, global climate change, variation, adaptation, biological evolution, and the fossil record. Two groups of pilot teachers receive professional development and contribute to materials development during summer work sessions and field test curriculum the following school year. Fossil Finders is assessing learning progressions of children and teacher understandings of evolutionary science concepts, nature of science, and inquiry. The project is helping children and teachers understand how scientists use evidence to build theory, enhancing abilities to do inquiry, and stimulating interest in paleontology, biology, and geology in target demographics (females, low SES, and ELL students). Fossil Finder's broader impacts include providing a viable national model for informal-formal partnerships in which natural history museums connect with classrooms; providing inquiry-based, authentic science experiences; and potentially broadening participation among underserved groups of students.
化石发现者项目让全国各地的孩子们在教室里对泥盆纪化石进行真实的调查。目标包括支持儿童在构建对自然现象的解释时使用证据,并激励不同文化和语言的儿童群体参与学习科学。这个为期四年的项目是康奈尔大学教育部和纽约伊萨卡古生物研究所(PRI)的合作项目。来自两个年级(5/6年级和7/8年级)的教室收到从纽约州北部露头运来的页岩层样本。可交付成果包括开发和测试一个互动网站,儿童在该网站上学习如何识别他们发现的化石,并将他们自己的数据添加到一个新兴的数据库中。一个关键的重点是有很高比例的代表不足的儿童群体(英语学习者,[ELL]和其种族和性别在科学中没有得到很好代表的儿童)的教室。开发的材料涉及尖端STEM跨学科科学内容,包括环境科学、全球气候变化、变异、适应、生物进化和化石记录。两组试点教师在暑期工作期间接受专业发展,并在下一学年的实地测试课程中为材料开发做出贡献。化石发现者正在评估儿童的学习进展和教师对进化科学概念、科学本质和探究的理解。该项目正在帮助儿童和教师了解科学家如何使用证据来建立理论,增强进行调查的能力,并在目标人口统计学(女性、低SES和ELL学生)中激发对古生物学、生物学和地质学的兴趣。化石探索者的更广泛影响包括为自然历史博物馆与教室连接的非正式-正式伙伴关系提供一个可行的国家模式;提供基于探究的真实科学体验;以及潜在地扩大服务不足的学生群体的参与。
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Barbara Crawford其他文献
Scaffolding Preservice Science Teachers' Evidence-Based Arguments During an Investigation of Natural Selection
- DOI:
10.1023/a:1022411822951 - 发表时间:
2002-01-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.300
- 作者:
Carla Zembal-Saul;Danusa Munford;Barbara Crawford;Patricia Friedrichsen;Susan Land - 通讯作者:
Susan Land
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{{ truncateString('Barbara Crawford', 18)}}的其他基金
Fossil Finders: Using Fossils to Teach about Evolution, Inquiry and Nature of Science
化石发现者:利用化石教授进化论、探究和科学本质
- 批准号:
1249157 - 财政年份:2012
- 资助金额:
$ 149.84万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
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