Elementary School Neuroscience Literacy

描述（由申请人提供）： 目前的建议是以前的工作的延伸，涉及小学生的纵向活动为基础的神经科学教育计划的发展，跨越3至5年级。我们将该计划命名为“大脑探索者”，以传达开发活动的探究性，动手性和思维性。该计划的目标是创造引人入胜的科学教育活动，培养对人类神经系统奇迹的理解。通过这种教育丰富，我们假设学生将获得增强的自我意识，这将促进自尊和有助于健康生活方式的行为。此外，还提出了适合年龄的活动，以帮助这些小学年龄的儿童了解滥用药物对神经系统和身体的一些影响。在拟议的工作中，具体目标是创造资源和材料，以便在全国范围内传播该方案。这项工作将包括以印刷品和多媒体形式编写教师和学生指南，以促进活动的开展。三角研究所的多媒体专家将与Brain Explorers的工作人员合作，创建引人入胜的多媒体资源，以帮助实现我们的学习目标。为了帮助教师解决他们最负责的基本阅读，写作和数学技能的学习目标，我们将开发和系统化大脑探索活动的扩展，以促进基本学术技能的发展。系统地整合和链接Brain Explorer活动与提高基本学习目标的方法是一种可以促进该计划广泛采用的策略。人们普遍认识到需要改进科学教育方面的教师培训。因此，本申请的一个重要组成部分将是开发教师培训讲习班和资源，以提供与大脑探索者活动相关的广泛和基本的科学背景信息，并提供将允许教师有效地进行该计划的活动的培训。如果直接参加讲习班不切实际，预计“多媒体讲习班”将是接触广大教师的有效机制。因此，我们将开发视频和CD支持资源，以帮助教师培训。拟议的工作将在具有不同人口统计学特征的学校试点该计划，以指导资源和材料的开发，从而使大脑探索者计划在广泛的公立学校环境中传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current proposal is an extension of previous work involving the development of a longitudinal activity based neuroscience education program for elementary school students, that spans the 3rd through 5th grades. We have named the program "Brain Explorers" to convey the inquiry-based, hands-on, minds-on nature of activities developed. The objective of the program is to create engaging science education activities that will cultivate an understanding of the wonders of the human nervous system. Through this educational enrichment, we hypothesize that students will gain enhanced self-awareness, that will promote self-respect and behaviors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle. In addition age-appropriate activities are proposed to help these elementary age children understand some of the effects of drug abuse on the nervous system and body. In the proposed work, the specific aims are designed to create resources and materials that will allow national dissemination of the program. This work will include creation of teacher and student guides in print and multimedia formats to facilitate implementation of the activities. Multimedia specialist at Research Triangle Institute will work with the Brain Explorers staff to create engaging multimedia resources to help meet our learning objectives. To help teachers address learning goals in basic reading, writing, and math skills for which they are most accountable, we will develop and systematize extensions of Brain Explorers activities to promote basic academic skill development. Systematically integrating and linking Brain Explorer activities with approaches to enhance basic learning objectives is a strategy that could promote wide spread adoption of the program. The need for improved teacher training in science education is widely recognized. Accordingly, an important component of the present application will be to develop teacher training workshops and resources, to provide broad and basic science background information relevant to the Brain Explorers activities, and to provide training that will allow teachers to effectively conduct the activities of the program. It is expected that "multimedia workshops" will be an effective mechanism to reach a broad audience of teachers, if direct participation in workshops is impractical. We will therefore develop video and CD support resources to aid in teacher training. The proposed work will pilot the program in schools with diverse demographics, to guide the development of resources and materials that will allow dissemination of the Brain Explorers program in a wide range of public school settings.