Project "SEED": Science Education through Experiments and Demonstrations

项目种子是一个33个月的计划，由东北大学赞助 大学加强中级科学教师使用 在课堂上进行实验、演示和项目。 它基于一个公认的概念，即 理解基本概念需要广泛的先验知识， 这些项目的具体例子。 工作 与一个由科学监督员组成的咨询小组合作， 波士顿市区和郊区的协调员 学校，一个全面的计划已经制定，以培训 教师将示范和实验纳入 个人的教学风格。 的主要成分 项目种子是一个为期四周的夏季计划，为两个 暑期，包括讲习班、研讨会和实地考察， 经验 为期12天的研讨会将侧重于 演示和实验， 学生的具体经验与基本概念， 所有科学基础的物理定律 涵盖的主题 包括：长度和时间;面积和体积;质量和密度; 压力和天气;力、功和能;运动;地球 和太阳系;元素和化合物;光学;热 和温度;以及电和磁。 每个 研讨会将涉及各种活动， 可以适应各种教学情况， 课程。 参与者还将帮助建立博物馆式的 展品 这些展品将被设计成给学生们 与科学愉快的互动，激发他们的兴趣， 好奇心，并为他们提供一些实践经验， 否则可能无法获得。 帮助参与者 在工作坊活动和博物馆项目将是两个 从去年夏天选出的实习教师 车间方案。 已与公众作出安排， 公用事业、私营公司和政府实验室， 特别研讨会和图尔斯旅游，旨在将课程 日常工业和科学实践的材料。 那里 还将举办研讨会并参观研究实验室， 东北大学。在夏季计划之前，两个 将与与会者举行研讨会和现场参观， 评估他们的个人需要、兴趣和长处， 提供给他们的设施。 在暑期项目结束后， 参与的教师将与 项目工作人员制定一套目标， 在课堂上讨论创意。 后续研讨会和网站 将进行访问以帮助教师满足他们的要求 具体目标。 形成性评价程序将是 用来帮助老师评估他们的教学 受益于该计划。 美国国家科学基金会在该项目中所占的份额为 326，169美元，与206，952美元的 机构。 这构成了超过63%的匹配。

Project SEED is a 33 month program sponsored by Northeastern University to enhance middle level science teachers' use of experiments, demonstrations and projects in their classes. It is based on the well-established notion that an understanding of the basic concepts requires extensive prior experience with concrete examples of these projects. Working with an advisory group of science supervisors and coordinators from both urban and suburban Boston-area schools, a comprehensive program has been developed to train teachers to incorporate demonstrations and experiments into their individual teaching styles. The principal component of Project SEED is a four-week summer program, held for two summers, which involve workshop sessions, seminars and field experiences. Twelve day-long workshop sessions will focus on demonstrations and experiments that will give middle-school students concrete experience with the basic concepts and physical laws that underlie all of science. Topics covered include: length and time; area and volume; mass and density; pressure and weather; force, work and energy; motion; earth and the solar system; elements and compounds; optics; heat and temperature; and electricity and magnetism. Each workshop session will involve a variety of activities that can be adapted to a diversity of teaching situations and curricula. Participants will also help build museum-style exhibits. These exhibits will be designed to give the students a joyful interaction with science, spark their interest and curiosity and to provide them with some hands-on experiences which may not otherwise be available. Aiding the participants in the workshop activities and the museum projects will be two teacher interns who have been selected from previous summer workshop programs. Arrangements have been made with public utilities, private corporations and government laboratories for special seminars and tours aimed at connecting curricular material to everyday industrial and scientific practice. There will also be seminars and visits to research laboratories at Northeastern University. Prior to the summer program, two seminars and site visits will be held with the participants to assess their individual needs, interests and strengths, and the facilities available to them. After the summer program, the participating teachers will meet individually with members of the Project staff to develop a set of goals for implementing workshop ideas in their classes. Follow-up seminars and site visits will be conducted to help the teachers meet their specific goals. A formative evaluation procedure will be used to help the teachers assess how much their teaching benefited from the program. The NSF share of the project is $326,169 which is being matched by $206,952 from the institution. This constitutes a match of more than 63%.