Teaching Hands-On Investigative Biology in High School "On AShoestring"

人们迫切需要在高中课程中更多地纳入实践中的调查科学。然而，目前的学校预算往往缺乏资金来购买足够的材料和设备来实践科学。解决这一问题的一个直接办法是编制和分发一份有效的实际操作调查活动的实验室手册，这些活动只需要很少或不需要资金就能实施。全国生物教师协会(NABT)的工作人员计划招聘优秀的、有经验的高中教师来编写和实地测试这些活动，根据需要对这些活动进行修改，以满足特殊群体的学生，包括肢体残疾、天才和弱势群体。NABT工作人员将监督该项目的所有阶段，生物学家和科学教育工作者将审查材料以确保其质量。然后，最成功的活动将通过邮寄和在职讲习班分发给全国各地的高中生物教师。该项目的目标是增加生物学教学的过程，而不是收集事实。该项目的目标是通过(1)向教师提供以过程为导向的生物学，使实践调查生物学的教学成为可能。高中生物教师和他们的学生将从这个项目中受益。

A strong need exists for more inclusion of hands-on investigative science in the high school curriculum. Current school budgets, however, often lack of money to purchase adequate materials and equipment for hands-on science. One immediate remedy for the problem is the production and dissemination of a laboratory manual of effective hands-on investigative activities that require little or no money to implement. The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) staff plans to recruit excellent, experienced high school teachers to write and field test these activities, modifying them as needed for special populations of students, including the physically disabled, gifted, and disadvantaged. NABT staff members will oversee all phases of the project, and biologists and science educators will review materials to assure their quality. The most successful activities will then be distributed to high school biology teachers throughout the country through mailings and in-service workshops. The goal of the project is to increase the teaching of biology as a process rather than as a collection of facts. The objectives of the project are to enable the teaching of hands-on investigative biology by (1) providing teachers process-oriented biology. High school biology teachers and their students will benefit from this project.