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Build it Green!: Enhancing Middle School Science Education through an Energy Efficient Building Design Curriculum

打造绿色！：通过节能建筑设计课程加强中学科学教育

基本信息

批准号：
2201204
负责人：
Laura Zangori
金额：
$ 295.03万
依托单位：
University of Missouri-Columbia
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-09-01 至 2026-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2201204&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Build Green Enhancing Middle Science

项目摘要

To act on energy issues, students need a strong understanding of energy flow and energy efficiency. However, students rarely have opportunities to learn about how buildings, such as their own school, drive about 40% of energy use and global carbon emissions. Addressing this gap in science education, this project will design, pilot, and evaluate a 6-week middle school curriculum called Build it Green! (BIG!). Blending classroom experiences and interactive digital learning tools, the researchers will work with rural middle schools in Missouri to implement and test how following the story of energy flow in and out of a hypothetical school building enhances students’ understanding of energy systems in the science of green buildings. At the same time, the project partners with the Kummer Center for rural STEM education to support teachers’ understanding of engineering design principles, energy issues and place-based education. BIG! will be enacted in rural classrooms and engage approximately 600 middle school students over time. Its quasi-experimental approach focuses on assessing students' ability to construct and explain models of energy systems and on teachers’ use of newly developed digital instructional tools such as visualizations. Data to be collected includes students' drawn models of the energy systems in their school building, surveys of students’ attitudes and behaviors, student and teacher interviews, classroom observations, and teacher questionnaires. Student understanding of BIG!’s learning goals will be determined through their energy models, explanations, and related rubric systems. A key goal of the work is to compare student engagement and learning across the digital format of BIG! and an analog format of the curriculum which was tested in a previous project, Energy and Your Environment (EYE, DRL- 2009127). In this way, the project can inform understanding of the relative affordances and limitations of instruction on energy flow that uses simulations rather than actual building materials. The project’s multidisciplinary research team includes researchers in science education, education technology, architecture, and building science. The curricular unit is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards to foster energy literacy, modeling of energy use and flow, and systems thinking. The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

为了解决能源问题，学生需要对能量流和能源效率有深刻的理解。然而，学生们很少有机会了解建筑，比如他们自己的学校，是如何驱动约40%的能源使用和全球碳排放的。为了解决科学教育中的这一差距，该项目将设计、试点和评估一个为期6周的中学课程，名为Build it Green！(大)。将课堂体验和交互式数字学习工具相结合，研究人员将与密苏里州的农村中学合作，实施并测试如何遵循假想学校建筑的能量流入和流出的故事，提高学生对绿色建筑科学中能源系统的理解。与此同时，该项目与Kummer农村STEM教育中心合作，支持教师对工程设计原则、能源问题和就地教育的理解。大了!将在农村的教室实施，并逐步让大约600名中学生参与。它的准实验方法侧重于评估学生构建和解释能源系统模型的能力，以及教师对新开发的数字教学工具（如可视化）的使用。收集的数据包括学生绘制的学校建筑能源系统模型、学生态度和行为调查、学生和教师访谈、课堂观察和教师问卷。学生对BIG的理解！的学习目标将通过他们的能量模型、解释和相关的标题系统来确定。这项工作的一个关键目标是比较BIG!数字格式的学生参与度和学习情况。以及在之前的项目“能源与环境”（EYE, DRL- 2009127）中测试过的模拟课程格式。通过这种方式，该项目可以了解使用模拟而不是实际建筑材料的能量流指令的相对能力和局限性。该项目的多学科研究团队包括科学教育、教育技术、建筑和建筑科学方面的研究人员。课程单元与下一代科学标准相一致，以培养能源知识，能源使用和流动建模以及系统思维。探索研究K-12项目（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源、模型和工具（rmt），显著提高pre -12学生和教师对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，为拟议的项目提供了理论和实证依据。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。