RAPID: The Science of Atoms and Molecules Project

原子和分子科学（SAM）项目创建了24个活动，跨越三年的物理第一高中科学课程。这些活动包括四个主题：运动和能量、电荷、结构和光。本研究的目的是确定一年的SAM活动暴露对次年SAM活动表现的影响程度，以及学生回忆前几年SAM活动概念并将其应用于不同学科的新活动的程度。本研究亦探讨现时教师专业发展在使用自主资产管理活动方面的充分性。通过电子方式和随机选择的20名学生和一些老师的访谈，收集了300多名前几年参加过SAM单元，现在正在学习生物学的学生的数据。这些数据是根据学生和教师之前的SAM活动经验和学生之前的评估来分析的。积极的结果将为如何使用计算机建模来教授重要的科学概念提供证据，这些概念可以在随后的课程中建立起来。

The Science of Atoms and Molecules (SAM) project creates 24 activities that span three years of a Physics First high school science curriculum. The activities cover four general themes: motion and energy, charge, structure, and light. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which exposure to SAM activities in one year influences performance on SAM activities in a subsequent year and the extent to which students can recall concepts from SAM activities from prior years and apply them to new activities in a different discipline. The study also examines the adequacy of present teacher professional development of teachers in the use of SAM activities. The data from over 300 students who have engaged in SAM units in prior years and are now studying biology are collected electronically and through interviews with a random selection of 20 students and some teachers. The data are analyzed accounting for student and teacher prior experience with SAM activities and students' prior assessments. Positive results would provide evidence for the how to use computer modeling to teach important science concepts that can be built on in subsequent courses.