Multimedia Simulations of Field Experiments in Ecology

该奖项提供资金用于开发野外生态实验的多媒体模拟，以提高本科生物学课程学生的科学过程技能。为了完成模拟，控制视盘的计算机将提供集成的真实和动画图像以及适当的声音。选择用于模拟的环境对于大多数本科生来说将是无法访问的，因为危险，并且因为大量的时间和经济需求。这项发展在为身体残障学生提供实地体验方面应该特别有用。在模拟中，学生设计实验来验证假设，从存储在视频光盘上的图像中收集数据，然后根据原始假设分析和解释数据。

This award provides funds for the development of a multi-media simulation of field ecology experiments to enhance the scientific process skills of students in undergraduate biology courses. To accomplish the simulation, a computer controlling a video disk will provide integrated real and animated images in combination with appropriate sound. The environment chosen for the simulation would be otherwise inaccessible to most undergraduate students because of danger and because of significant time and financial demands. The development should be of particular use in providing field experience to physically handicapped students. In the simulation, the student designs experiments to test hypotheses, collects data from images stored on the video disk, and then analyses and interprets the data in terms of the original hypotheses.