Collaborative Research: Rethinking How to Teach Energy: Laying The Foundations in Elementary School

该项目将开发一个3-5年级的学习进展，这将提供一个连贯的方法来教学能量在小学，并将在中学进一步学习奠定坚实的基础。这项工作借鉴并补充了正在开发和测试的调查项目（NSF奖0628245）的学习进展和课程。 该项目将确定一个关于能源的核心概念和原则的网络，这些概念和原则具有足够的基础性和普遍性，足以与关于能源的科学思想相兼容，但在五年级学生的范围内，可以让中学进行富有成效的学习。与教师合作，将对从城市课后计划中招募的三、四、五年级学生进行临床访谈和“教学访谈”，以确定核心思想的前身以及学习这些思想的障碍。 该项目将概述3-5年级的能源学习进展，同时考虑到研究结果以及相关标准，课程和科学教育文献。

This project will develop a grade 3-5 Learning Progression that will provide a coherent approach to teaching energy in elementary school and will lay a strong foundation for further learning in middle school. This work draws on and complements the learning progression and curriculum for matter being developed and tested in the Inquiry Project (NSF award 0628245). The project will identify a network of core concepts and principles about energy fundamental and general enough to be compatible with scientific ideas about energy, yet within reach of 5th graders, that could allow productive learning in middle school. In collaboration with teachers, clinical interviews and "teaching interviews" will be administered to 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, recruited from urban after-school programs, to identify precursors to the core ideas, as well obstacles to learning them. The project will outline a grade 3-5 learning progression for energy taking into account the findings as well as relevant standards, curricula, and science education literature.