Encouraging High School Student Research in Biology Through Teacher - Scientist Partnerships

该项目是一个为期五年的计划，将开发12 经过实地测试的开放式研究项目， 被生物学教师作为调查性科学项目， 一年级生物学学生 研究项目将是 由生物学教师与实验室合作开发 北卡罗来纳州三角研究园的科学家们， 在华盛顿，华盛顿特区。 全国协会 生物学教师将协调该项目。 12个小组将由两名教师和一名科学家组成 在他们的实验室工作 在1993年夏天的三个星期里。 在此期间 该团队将与研究人员合作开发一种简单， 低成本，开放式的研究项目，可用于 他们的教室。 教师将获得实践经验 科学家实验室的程序， 然后用他们自己的学生进行实地测试 在下一学年，并根据需要进行修改。 一名特殊教育教师将与NABT工作人员合作， 为有特殊需要的学生修改项目， 然后将在全国范围内对项目进行实地测试。 输入 全国性的测试将用于修改 项目进一步。 然后将它们编译为 将提供给生物教师的专著 全国范围 项目成果将通过以下途径传播： 国家和州科学教师在职讲习班 会议和当地学区。 成本分摊相当于NSF奖励的16.8%。

This project is a five year program that will develop twelve field tested, open-ended research projects that can be used by biology teachers as investigative science projects with first year biology students. The research projects will be developed by biology teachers working with laboratory scientists at the North Carolina Research Triangle Park and in the Washington, D.C. area. The National Association of Biology Teachers will coordinate the project. Twelve teams of two teachers will be paired with a scientist from a university or industry and work in their laboratory for three weeks during the summer of 1993. During this time the team will work with the researcher to develop a simple, low cost, open-ended research project that can be used in their classroom. The teachers will gain hands-on experience with the procedures in the laboratory of the scientist and then field test the experiment with their own students during the following academic year and modify it as needed. A special education teacher will work with the NABT staff to modify the projects for students with special needs, and the projects will then be field tested nationwide. Input from the nationwide testing will then be used to modify the projects further. They will then be compiled into a monograph which will be made available to biology teachers nationwide. Project results will be disseminated through inservice workshops at national and state science teacher conventions and in local school districts. Cost sharing equals 16.8% of the NSF award.