Biology Take-Out: Hands-on Science Activity Kits

描述(由申请者提供)：科学套装是完整的、预先包装的、即用即用的产品-包括所有让学生参与实践科学学习的说明和用品。这些创新的科学工具包不需要教师准备，也不需要实验室设备。科学外卖工具包为教师提供了一种方便且经济高效的方式，通过实践活动让学生了解科学内容、应用和职业。SBIR第二阶段项目的目标是：提供证据，证明科学外卖试剂盒对高中生理解生物学概念和过程有积极影响；通过“教育者-演示者”领导的工作坊，提高教师对科学外卖试剂盒的认识；以及研究扩大科学外卖试剂盒开发和制造能力的方法。在这个第二阶段的SBIR项目中，我们将：“为八种不同的科学外卖工具包开发和现场测试可靠和有效的事前/事后评估，以确定科学外卖工具包对学生学习的影响。”创建一种将套件开发流程与评估开发流程相结合的方法。为提高教师对科学外卖工具包的认识和采用，开发和评估研讨会材料，这些材料将被30名“教育者兼演讲者”用来在全美的科学会议上领导科学外卖研讨会。开发和评估操作系统以扩大生产流程，同时保持成套设备的质量和成本效益。这个拟议的项目意义重大，因为科学外卖工具包增加了教师使用实践活动的机会，让不同的学生群体参与到理解科学内容、应用和职业的活动中来。该项目还将为教师提供由同行领导的优质专业发展计划，以使他们了解科学外卖工具包，并适应将这一新内容引入他们现有的课程。这一拟议的项目具有创新性，因为科学外带工具包使教师能够轻松地将实践科学经验和生物医学概念整合到其现有课程的各种主题领域中。此外，科学外卖工具包的创新特性将增加忙碌的教师采用这些新课程材料的可能性，这将进一步扩大这一项目对学生学习的影响。 公共卫生相关性：该项目与公共卫生的相关性在于，科学外卖实验室活动工具包将为教师提供亲身实践生物实验室经验的途径，以帮助他们的学生掌握科学主题，发展他们的科学推理技能，并增加他们对科学和科学事业的兴趣。这个项目将创建和实地测试教育材料，以促进学生对生物概念的理解。这些信息将使教师能够帮助他们的学生更好地了解涉及他们健康的决定。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Science Take-Out kits are complete, prepackaged, ready-to-use products - including all instructions and supplies for engaging students in hands-on science learning. These innovative science kits do not require teacher preparation, and they do not require laboratory equipment. Science Take-Out kits provide teachers with a convenient and cost-effective way for using hands-on activities to engage students in understanding science content, applications, and careers. The goals of this SBIR Phase II project are: to provide evidence that Science Take-Out kits have a positive impact on high school students' understanding of biology concepts and processes; to increase teachers' awareness of Science Take-Out kits through workshops led by "educator-presenters", and; to investigate methods for scaling up Science Take-Out's kit development and manufacturing capacity. During this Phase II SBIR project we will: "Develop and field test reliable and valid pre/post assessments for eight different Science Take-Out kits to determine the impact that Science Take-Out kits have on student learning." Create a method for integrating the kit development process with the assessment development process. "Develop and evaluate workshop materials that will be used by 30 "educator-presenters" to lead Science Take-Out workshops at science conferences throughout the United States in order to increase teacher awareness of and adoption of Science Take-Out kits." Develop and evaluate operating systems to scale up the manufacturing process while maintaining kit quality and cost effectiveness. This proposed project is significant because Science Take-Out kits increase teachers' use of hands-on activities to engage diverse student populations in understanding science content, applications, and careers. This project will also provide teachers with quality professional development programs led by peers in order to make them aware of Science Take-Out kits and comfortable with introducing this new content into their existing curriculum. This proposed project is innovative because Science Take-Out kits allow teachers to easily integrate hands- on science experiences and biomedical science concepts into various topic areas of their existing curriculum. In addition, the innovative characteristics of Science Take-Out kits will increase the likelihood of adoption of these new curricular materials by busy teachers, which will further expand the impact of this project on student learning. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The relevance of this project to public health is that the Science Take-Out laboratory activity kits will provide teachers with access to hands-on biology laboratory experiences to help their students' master scientific subject matter and develop their scientific reasoning skills as well as increase their interest in science and scientific careers. This project will create and field test educational materials to promote student understanding of biological concepts. This information will allow teachers to help their students become better informed for decisions involving their health.