EAGER:MAKER: Piloting a BioDesign Maker Space and Curriculum for K-12 STEM Learning

EAGER:MAKER：为 K-12 STEM 学习试点 BioDesign Maker 空间和课程

• 批准号: 1723559
• 负责人: Neal Overstrom
• 金额: $ 27.91万
• 依托单位: Rhode Island School of Design
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1723559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; MAKER; Piloting; BioDesign; Maker

Researchers from the Rhode Island School of Design will create a BioDesign Maker Space, providing an immersive environment for K-12 students and other learners to engage in hands-on design projects that cultivate a working knowledge of biology and natural systems. The space will leverage strategies from biophilic design, including features and patterns observed in the natural world shown to improve student focus, productivity and wellbeing. A BioDesign curriculum, developed for use in the space, will explore the use of ecosystem services to design solutions to urban issues such as air and water pollution and food security. Students from area public schools will receive the cumulative benefits of learning in a biophilic space and an approach to STEM learning that emphasizes practical, inquiry-based, design and design thinking methods. The intellectual merit of this initiative is in its bio-centric approach to the design and construction of learning, living and work environments, leading to improvements in human and environmental health. Through new perspectives on the presence of nature in human spaces, and the power of studio/Makerspace pedagogy, the proposed effort introduces an innovative approach to STEM education that identifies the human-nature connection as integral to engaging students in STEM fields, and preparing them to meet social and environmental challenges. A catalog of BioDesign Maker Space strategies, as well as curriculum modules, will be widely disseminated.This project is a part of NSF's Maker Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) portfolio (NSF 15-086), a collaborative investment of Directorates for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Engineering (ENG).

罗德岛设计学院的研究人员将创建一个BioDesign Maker Space，为K-12学生和其他学习者提供一个身临其境的环境，让他们参与实践设计项目，培养生物学和自然系统的实用知识。该空间将利用生物亲生设计的策略，包括在自然世界中观察到的特征和模式，以提高学生的注意力、生产力和幸福感。为在太空中使用而开发的生物设计课程将探索利用生态系统服务来设计解决城市问题的方案，如空气和水污染以及粮食安全。来自地区公立学校的学生将获得在生物空间学习的累积好处，以及强调实用、基于探究的设计和设计思维方法的STEM学习方法。这一倡议的智力价值在于其以生物为中心的方法来设计和建设学习、生活和工作环境，从而改善人类和环境健康。通过对人类空间中自然的存在以及STUDIO/Makerspace教学法的力量的新视角，拟议的工作引入了STEM教育的创新方法，确定人与自然的联系是让学生参与STEM领域并使他们做好应对社会和环境挑战的不可或缺的组成部分。生物设计制造者空间战略目录以及课程模块将被广泛传播。该项目是NSF制造者亲爱的同事信(DCL)组合(NSF 15-086)的一部分，该组合是计算机与信息科学与工程(CEISE)、教育与人力资源(EHR)和工程(ENG)的合作投资。