Modeling: Instructional Materials and Software for Theory Building

这个项目的目标是给7-12年级的学生提供理解复杂系统的工具和材料。学生将能够创建复杂情况的模型，并使用经验数据评估模型的正确性。简而言之，他们将能够建立和测试理论，并将这些技能应用于科学。这一目标将通过一个三阶段项目来实现，该项目将开发功能强大、速度快的软件包，以及使用该软件的一系列教学材料，这些软件包具有良好的用户界面，允许轻松创建和测试模型。该项目为这项工作的第一阶段提供资金，在此期间将开发、测试和发布原型软件和材料。编写的课程材料将通过时事通讯、研讨会、教师讲习班、专业介绍和商业出版物广泛传播。这些材料将由技术教育研究中心(TERC)与主要教育工作者和地区学校合作开发。该项目是与教学材料开发计划共同资助的。

The goal of this project is to give students in grades 7-12 tools and materials to understand complex systems. Students will be able to create models of complex situations and evaluate the correctness of their models using empirical data. In short, they will be able to build and test theories, and apply these skills to the sciences. This goal will be accomplished by a three phase project to develop powerful, fast software packages with good user interfaces that allow easy model creation and testing, together with a sequence of instructional material using this software. This project funds the first phase of this effort during which prototype software and material will be developed, tested and published. The resulting curriculum materials will be widely disseminated through newsletters, symposia, teacher workshops, professional presentations and commercial publication. The material will be developed by Technical Education Research Center (TERC) with the collaboration of leading educators and area schools. This project is funded jointly with the Instructional Materials Development Program.