Powerplay: Kids Measuring Their Bodies' Responses to Physical Challenges

为了响应国家确定的与儿童健康和饮食有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（Baylor）建议开发和 传播一个长期的展览，题为“权力游戏：孩子们测量他们的身体对身体的反应， 挑战“拟议的第一/第二阶段项目将使儿童及其家庭参与基于调查的调查， 促进理解，积极的态度，和健康的行为有关的身体活动，饮食，和影响 锻炼人体。具体目标是：1）让儿童和家庭参与身体挑战和相关的 促使他们增加身体活动的活动; 2）使儿童和家庭能够计划和跟踪自己的活动 体育活动和营养;以及3）促进儿童和家庭对研究的理解和研究 过程 PowerPlay将开发、评估并提供以下产品和服务：1）互动的、长期的、 展览在CMH（4,500平方英尺），PowerPlay，吸引游客在一套相互关联的，新颖的，严格的完整的 身体物理挑战集成到一个复杂的，多层结构; 2）规划和跟踪设备， 策略，权力计划，为儿童和家庭成员记录他们的身体的反应，以一系列的身体 活动，并在密码保护的个人网络日志上记录他们的进展; 3）以调查为导向的演示， 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）a 前/后博物馆实地经验网络资源，包含六个引导探究课程（可下载），专业 发展“虚拟研讨会”，并有机会与其他教师谁是使用的经验教训，通过 在同一网站上促进了论坛讨论。 在贝勒，合作伙伴关系将涉及教育推广中心，合作与互动中心 技术，生物医学科学研究生院和儿童营养研究中心， 附属于德克萨斯州儿童医院贝勒综合临床研究中心。休斯顿独立学校 学区，全国第七大学区，也将在展览和相关的评估合作 课堂组成部分和项目传播。项目评价将包括： 项目概念和战略;形成性评估，包括每个展览组件和领域的原型 课堂活动和专业发展课程的测试;以及对直接 参观者对展览的反应和后续电话采访，以更好地了解展览的影响 时间在其至少15年的生命周期中，预计展览将吸引超过600万游客。

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 15years, the exhibit is anticipated to engage more than six million visitors.