LEAD with GUITARS in STEM

参与机构：辛克莱社区学院管家社区学院普渡大学项目描述该项目正在探索吉他的设计和制造，以更好地吸引原本可能与STEM主题无关的学生。它使用构建吉他的背景来探索困难的理论概念(例如，时间/频率域的关系)，并通过以下方式推进STEM学习：1)量化学生从实施新的STEM吉他课程中获得的学习收益，2)改进和扩展各种教师专业发展活动，以及3)专注于额外的课程开发活动，以纳入国家标准并解决行业参与者确定的技能差距。为期十天的教师专业发展学院正在进行，以吸引教师团队发现新的STEM学习工具/技术，并建立一个多样化的地区合作伙伴社区。BROADER重要意义在为期三年的努力过程中，超过19,000名学生受到影响，这是教师采用或调整通过该项目开发的课程的结果。教育工作者正在与他们的同行和专业发展学院的促进者合作，研究与制造吉他相关的STEM原则，并开发符合核心课程国家标准的应用STEM学习活动。教师是从服务不足的人群中招聘的，并正在准备一个网站，使高中生能够试验与该项目相关的物理、数学和工程设计/制造概念。该项目的网站为教育工作者提供了一个令人兴奋的STEM学习社区的广泛途径，使他们能够与参与课程实施和专业发展活动的其他专业人员保持联系。

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS:Sinclair Community CollegeButler Community CollegePurdue UniversityPROJECT DESCRIPTION The project is exploring the design and manufacturing of guitars to better engage students that otherwise may not be connected to STEM oriented subject matter. It uses the context of building a guitar to explore difficult theoretical concepts (e.g., relationship of the time/frequency domains) and advance STEM learning by: 1) quantifying the student learning gains that result from the implementation of the new STEM guitar curriculum, 2) improving and expanding a variety of faculty professional development activities, and 3) focusing additional curriculum development activities to incorporate national standards and address gaps in skills that are identified by industry participants. Comprehensive ten-day faculty professional development institutes are being conducted to engage faculty teams in the discovery of new STEM learning tools/techniques and build a diverse community of regional partners.BROADER SIGNIFICANCE More than 19,000 students are being impacted during the course of the three-year effort, as a result of faculty members adopting or adapting the curriculum developed through the project. Working with their peers and professional development institute facilitators, educators are studying the STEM principles associated with building guitars and developing applied STEM learning activities that are aligned with core curriculum national standards. Faculty are being recruited from underserved populations and are preparing a website to enable high school students to experiment with the physics, mathematics, and engineering design/manufacturing concepts that are associated with the project. The project's website offers educators widespread access to an exciting STEM learning community, allowing them to keep in contact with other professionals who are engaged in the curriculum implementation and professional development activities.