A PARTNERSHIP LINKING FORMAL INFORMAL EDUCATION

（改编自申请人摘要）：华盛顿大学（WU）教职员工 和吴科学推广办公室的工作人员将与教育工作者从 圣路易斯的主要非正式科学机构（ISI），即圣路易斯 科学中心、圣路易斯动物园和密苏里州植物园， 生成八个基于探究的教学单元，旨在实现 正式（基于课堂）和非正式（基于ISI）之间的强大协同作用 研究性学习经验。 八个生物和生物医学 为这些单元选择的主题都是为了利用 在这三个杰出的ISI提供独特的教育资源， 同时满足当地教师提出的迫切需求， 他们担心是否符合新的国家科学教育标准 （NSES）。每个单元将在垂直整合的中学和 高中版本，并将旨在帮助教师传达“大 在NSES中确定的主要主题领域之一，使用 解释性的方法，并利用其中一个ISIs的资源， 激发学生的兴趣，加强课堂调查。每个单元 将由主要研究者（PI）、 联合主任，计划协调员，一个吴教师专家，一名工作人员从 参与的ISI，一所中学和一名高中教师，一名WU 研究生和项目评估员。当部队准备好进入战场时 测试，每一个将被介绍给一组合作的教师在一个 工作坊（在参与计划的政府新闻处举行， 调查，将提供给他们的学生在ISI和在 课堂上，听取了一位吴老师关于最近和 该领域的前瞻性研究进展，也将有一个 有机会与彼此建立联系。每一位老师都会离开 所有书面材料（教师和学生版本）的研讨会， 电源、ISI触点等，执行该股所需的资源， 教室里没有不必要的拖延。各类专业评价 将在每个单元的开发、测试和修订的所有阶段进行， 主要重点是评估教育影响。

(Adapted from applicants abstract): Washington University (WU) faculty members and the staff of the WU Science Outreach office will join with educators from the major informal science institutions (ISIs) of St. Louis, namely, the St. Louis Science Center, the St. Louis Zoo, and the Missouri Botanical Garden, to generate eight inquiry-based instructional units designed to achieve a powerful synergy between formal (classroom-based) and informal (ISI-based) investigative learning experiences. The eight biological and biomedical topics selected for these units have each been chosen to exploit the distinctive educational resources available at these three outstanding ISIs, while at the same time addressing urgent needs articulated by local teachers who are concerned about meeting the new National Science Education Standards (NSES). Each unit will be produced in vertically integrated middle school and high school versions, and will be designed to help teachers convey the "big ideas" in one of the major topic areas identified in the NSES, using an investigatory approach, and exploiting the resources of one of the ISIs to engage student interest and augment the classroom investigations. Each unit will be developed by a team comprising the Principal Investigator (PI), the co-Director, the Program Coordinator, a WU faculty expert, a staff member from the participating ISI, a middle school and a high school teacher, a WU graduate student and the program evaluator. As units become ready for field testing, each will be introduced to a group of cooperating teachers at a workshop (held at the participating ISD in which they will preview the investigations that will be available for their students at the ISI and in the classroom, hear a presentation by a WU faculty member about recent and prospective research advances in the topic area, and will also have an opportunity to network with one another. Each of the teachers will leave the workshop with all of the written materials (teacher and student versions), supplies, ISI contacts, etc., that will be required to implement the unit in the classroom without undue delay. Professional evaluations of various types will be made at all stages of development, testing and revision of each unit, with major emphasis being placed on evaluating the educational impact.