Biology Take-Out: Hands-on Science Activity Kits

描述（由申请人提供）：科学外卖包是完整的，预先包装，即用型产品-包括所有的说明和用品，让学生参与动手科学学习。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。科学外卖包为教师提供了一个方便和具有成本效益的方式，使用动手活动，让学生了解科学内容，应用和职业。该SBIR第二阶段项目的目标是：提供证据证明科学外卖工具包对高中生理解生物学概念和过程具有积极影响;通过由“教育者-演示者”领导的研讨会提高教师对科学外卖工具包的认识;以及调查扩大科学外卖工具包开发和制造能力的方法。在第二阶段SBIR项目期间，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前/后评估，以确定科学外卖工具包对学生学习的影响。“创建一种方法，将试剂盒开发过程与评估开发过程相结合。“开发和评估研讨会材料，这些材料将由30名“教育者-演讲者”使用，在美国各地的科学会议上领导科学外卖研讨会，以提高教师对科学外卖工具包的认识和采用。“开发和评估操作系统，以扩大生产过程，同时保持套件质量和成本效益。这个拟议的项目是重要的，因为科学外卖工具包增加教师的动手活动的使用，以吸引不同的学生群体在理解科学内容，应用和职业。该项目还将为教师提供由同行领导的高质量专业发展计划，以使他们了解科学外卖包，并将此新内容引入现有课程。这个拟议的项目是创新的，因为科学外卖包允许教师轻松地将动手科学经验和生物医学科学概念融入现有课程的各个主题领域。此外，“科学教材套”的创新特色，亦会增加忙碌的忙碌采用这些新教材的机会，从而进一步扩大这项计划对学生学习的影响。 公共卫生相关性：这项计划与公共卫生的相关性在于，科学外卖实验室活动套件将为教师提供生物实验室实践经验，以帮助学生掌握科学主题，培养他们的科学推理能力，并提高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学生更好地了解涉及其健康的决定。

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.