Bridges, Bicycles, and Traffic - Thematic Physical Science Lessons

正如荷兰物理课程开发项目（PLON）所指出的那样，物理科学课程应该旨在激发学生积极参与科学研究。其中一种方式是为12至18岁的学生开发桥梁、交通与安全（包括自行车）和交通（包括碰撞）等主题科学单元。在20世纪80年代早期，该项目的工作人员合作了三种不同的互动视频光盘（IV）活动，为大学物理课程开发光盘。这些光盘项目是《塔科马海峡大桥坍塌之谜》、《以自行车为特色的能量转换》和《物理与汽车碰撞》。在过去的八年中，阿姆斯特丹大学物理系一直在开发一种科技开放学习环境（steal），将基于微型计算机的实验室（MBL）设备和课程引入荷兰的高中物理教室。该项目将成立一个两国指导委员会，以创建统一的主题物理科学，可供美国和荷兰的高中生使用。来自印刷PLON单元的基本物理科学概念将与MBL活动支持的交互式视频光盘（IV）课程结合在一起，这些活动使用了stolen计算机接口和设备。由此产生的主题物理科学课程将包括当代科学课程材料的三个创新方面的最佳特征：有趣和相关的应用，交互式视频课程和基于微电脑的实验室活动。

As stated so well by the Physics Curriculum Development Project of the Netherlands (PLON), physical science lessons should aim to stimulate students to be actively involved in the study of science. One way PLON units did that was to develop thematic science units on Bridges, Traffic and Safety (which includes bicycles), and Traffic (which includes collisions) for use with students from age 12 to 18 years. During the early 1980s, the staff of this project collaborated on three different interactive videodisc (IV) activities to develop discs for college physics courses. These disc projects were The Puzzle of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse, Energy Transformations Featuring the Bicycle, and Physics and Automobile Collisions. For the past eight years, the Department of Physics Education of the University of Amsterdam has been developing a Scientific and Technological Open Learning Environment (STOLE) that brings micro- computer based laboratory (MBL) equipment and lessons into the high school physics classrooms of the Netherlands. This project will form a bi-national steering committee to create unified thematic physical science that can be used by high school students in both the United States of America and the Netherlands. The basic physical science concepts from the printed PLON units will be brought together with the interactive videodisc (IV) lessons supported by MBL activities using the STOLE computer interfaces and apparatus. The resulting thematic physical science lessons will include the best features of these three innovative aspects of contemporary science curricular materials: interesting and relevant applications, interactive video lessons, and micro-computer based laboratory activities.