Powerplay: Kids Measuring Their Bodies' Responses to Physical Challenges

Powerplay：孩子们测量身体对身体挑战的反应

• 批准号: 7126880
• 负责人: CHERYL D MCCALLUM
• 金额: $ 25.86万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-27 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7126880
• 关键词: Powerplay; Kids; Measuring; Their; Bodies

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to nationally identified needs for new educational approaches related to children's fitness and diet, the Children's Museum of Houston (CMH) and Baylor College of Medicine (Baylor) propose to develop and disseminate a long-term exhibit entitled, "PowerPlay: Kids measuring their bodies' responses to physical challenges." The proposed Phase l/ll project will engage children and their families in inquiry-based investigations that promote understanding, positive attitudes, and healthy behaviors related to physical activity, diet, and the effects of exercise on the human body. Specific Aims are to: 1) engage children and families in physical challenges and related activities that prompt them to increase their physical activity; 2) enable children and families to plan and track their own physical activity and nutrition; and 3) facilitate children's and families' understanding of research and the research process. PowerPlay will develop, evaluate and make available the following products and services: 1) an interactive, long-term exhibit at CMH (4,500 square feet), PowerPlay, that engages visitors in a set of interconnected, novel, and rigorous full body physical challenges integrated into a complex, multi-story structure; 2) planning and tracking devices and strategies, PowerPlanners, for children and family members to record their bodies' responses to a host of physical activities, and record their progress on a password protected personal web log; 3) inquiry-oriented demonstrations and facilitated activities, PowerScience, developed and led by educators, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; 4) a pre/post museum field experience web resource containing six guided inquiry lessons (downloadable), professional development "virtual workshops," and opportunities to interact with other teachers who are using the lessons via facilitated discussion forums on the same site. At Baylor, the partnership will involve the Center for Educational Outreach, the Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Children's Nutrition Research Center, which is affiliated with Baylor's General Clinical Research Center at Texas Children's Hospital. The Houston Independent School District, the nation's seventh largest school district, also will collaborate in evaluations of the exhibit and related classroom components and in project dissemination. Project evaluation will encompass: front end assessments of project concepts and strategies; formative assessments that include prototyping of each exhibit component and field testing of classroom activities and professional development sessions; and summative assessments of immediate visitor responses to the exhibit and follow-up telephone interviews to achieve better understandings of impacts over time. Over its lifetime of at least 15 years, the exhibit is anticipated to engage more than six million visitors.

描述(由申请人提供)： 为了应对国家确定的与儿童健身和饮食相关的新教育方法的需求，休斯顿儿童博物馆(CMH)和贝勒医学院(贝勒)提议开发和传播一个长期展览，名为“力量游戏：孩子们测量他们的身体对身体挑战的反应。”拟议的L/11阶段项目将使儿童及其家人参与以调查为基础的调查，以促进对体育活动、饮食和锻炼对人体的影响的理解、积极态度和健康行为。具体目标是：1)让儿童和家庭参与体育挑战和相关活动，促使他们增加体育活动；2)使儿童和家庭能够规划和跟踪他们自己的体育活动和营养；3)促进儿童和家庭对研究和研究过程的理解。 PowerPlay将开发、评估和提供以下产品和服务：1)在CMH(4,500平方英尺)上进行互动的长期展览，Powerplay，吸引参观者参与一系列相互关联的、新颖的和严格的全身身体挑战，整合成一个复杂的、多故事的结构；2)规划和跟踪设备和战略，PowerPlanner，供儿童和家庭成员记录他们身体对一系列体育活动的反应，并在受密码保护的个人网络日志上记录他们的进展；3)以探究为导向的演示和促进活动，PowerScience，由教育工作者、研究生和博士后研究员开发和领导；4)博物馆前/后实地体验网络资源，其中包括六节有指导的探究课程(可下载)、专业发展“虚拟讲习班”，以及通过同一网站上便利的讨论论坛与正在使用这些课程的其他教师互动的机会。 在贝勒，合作伙伴关系将包括教育外联中心、协作和互动技术中心、生物医学研究生院和儿童营养研究中心，该中心隶属于德克萨斯州儿童医院贝勒综合临床研究中心。休斯顿独立学区是美国第七大学区，也将在对展览和相关课堂组成部分的评估以及项目传播方面进行合作。项目评估将包括：项目概念和战略的前端评估；形成性评估，包括每个展览组成部分的原型和课堂活动和专业发展会议的实地测试；以及对参观者对展览的直接反应和后续电话访谈的总结性评估，以更好地了解随着时间的推移产生的影响。在其至少15年的寿命中，展览预计将吸引600多万参观者。