Enhancing the Teaching of Project-Based Science

这项建议的目的是利用基于项目的科学作为一种工具来改进科学的教与学，使学生变得更有知识、更有思想、更有动力学习科学。该项目的工作人员将与中小学高年级教师合作，将大学教师的理论和研究知识与教师的专业教学知识融合在一起。由于不同类型的学生对基于项目的科学的问题和潜力感兴趣，参与的教师中将有一半来自为大量低收入、少数群体和高风险群体提供服务的学校。该项目将为希望使用基于项目的科学教学的教师开发和传播各种增强材料。这些辅助材料将基于教师在实施基于项目的科学时面临的问题和他们设计的解决方案的详细描述。它们将包括成功的项目设计和实施的核心组成部分，如介绍项目和项目生命周期中的教学战略等关键事件的插图。这些材料将通过一系列媒体表达，从书面文件到以计算机为基础的超媒体项目支助环境，使教师能够搜索和使用信息来实施、修改和生成项目。

The aim of this proposal is to use project-based science as a vehicle to improve science teaching and learning so that students will become more knowledgeable, thoughtful, and motivated to learn science. The staff of the project will work collaboratively with upper elementary and middle school teachers to meld the theoretical and research based knowledge of university faculty with the professional teaching knowledge of teachers. Because of an interest in the problems and potential of project-based science for different types of students, half of the participating teachers will be drawn from schools which service a substantial number of low-income, minority, and high risk groups. The project will result in the development and dissemination of a variety of enhancement materials for teachers who want to use project-based science instruction. These support materials will be based on the detailed accounts of problems that teachers face and the solutions they devise as they implement project-based science. They will include central components of successful project design and implementation such as illustrations of key events like introducing the project and instructional strategies in the life cycle of a project. The materials will be expressed through a range of media from written documents to a computer-based hypermedia project support environment that will allow the teachers to search and use information to implement, modify and generate projects.