High Altitude Ballooning in Undergraduate STEM Curriculum: Preparing for Widespread Implementation

CCLI类型2摘要1047557该项目是以前的类型1项目的延伸，通过高海拔研究平台（HARP）在本科课程中使用高空气球。 本科生能够设计和建立自己的实验，他们发射到近太空20英里以上的地球表面。学生在各种STEM类（工程，化学，生物，数学，计算机科学，物理，气象学，天文学，地球科学等）通过在近太空旅行提供的独特的现实世界条件（温度，压力，大气成分，湿度，紫外线，宇宙辐射，光照强度，下面的地球视图等的极端变化）进行学习。 当气球通过独特的传感器上升和下降时，数据每秒都以真实的时间流传输给学生。 完整的系统可从StratoStar Systems，LLC获得。 教师能够在激励学生的环境中使用真实世界的动手项目来实现课程学习目标。总的来说，它为学生提供了机会，通过制定假设，设计实验来测试假设，在气球发射过程中进行实验，分析数据，得出关于原始假设的结论并展示他们的发现，来参与完整的科学方法。 目前正在将HARP的原型实施到中学教师的本科教育科学方法课程中。 未来的教师正在开发六年级到八年级的科学和数学课程，使用流媒体视频和数据来现场测试课程。 代表50多所学院和大学的教师参加了HARP的使用和纳入本科课程的研讨会，其中26所学院已经获得了HARP系统。 目前正在制定建立全国学校网络的计划，以促进不断传播和交流教材。

CCLI Type 2 ABSTRACT 1047557This project is an extension of a previous Type 1 project on the use of high altitude balloons in the undergraduate curriculum via the High Altitude Research Platform (HARP). Undergraduate students are able to design and build their own experiments that they launch into near space 20 miles above the earth's surface. Students in various STEM classes (engineering, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, physics, meteorology, astronomy, earth science, etc.) are engaged in learning through the unique real-world conditions that traveling to near space provides (extreme variations in temperature, pressure, atmospheric composition, humidity, UV, cosmic radiation, light intensity, views of the earth below, etc.). Data is streamed to the students in real time every second as the balloon ascends and descends via the unique sensors. The complete system is available from StratoStar Systems, LLC. Faculty are able to attain course learning objectives using real-world, hands-on projects in an environment that motivates students. Overall, it provides the opportunity for students to engage in the complete scientific method by formulating a hypothesis, designing an experiment to test the hypothesis, performing the experiment during a balloon launch, analyzing the data, drawing conclusions about their original hypothesis and presenting their findings. Prototyping the implementation of HARP into undergraduate education science method classes for preservice middle school teachers is underway. The future teachers are developing sixth through eighth grade science and mathematics lessons using streaming video and data to field test the lessons. Faculty members representing over fifty colleges and universities have attended workshops of the use and incorporation of HARP into the undergraduate curriculum and over twenty six of these institutions have acquired a HARP system. Plans are being developed for a National network of schools to foster ongoing dissemination and exchange of curricular materials.