Extending Science Education: Teaching With and About Technology

科技创新博物馆将在其位于加州圣何塞的设施中开展一个为期三年的项目“扩展科学教育：用技术和关于技术的教学”。每年来自加州北部和南部的20名中学和20名高中科学教师将与行业专家和博物馆工作人员一起学习最新的创新和发展，参加暑期工作坊活动，参观工业研究和发展设施，包括幕后参观和在博物馆的动手实验室，复制生物、计算机科学、化学、物理、在参与者的学校教授数学。基于这些实际应用的“挑战活动”将由40个四人小组开发，每个小组从教师参与者为期两周的夏季研讨会开始，然后由该教师和其他三位科学教师组成的小组完成和实施。除了至少半天的培训访问和项目人员和行业专家的“必要”咨询外，他们还将得到参与者、项目人员和行业专家的年中电话会议的支持。传播包括120名参与者中的每一位都收到所有120项挑战活动的出版物，并在向所有教师和社区成员开放的春季博览会上亲自介绍他们的项目。由博物馆、学区和工业分摊的费用占国家科学基金会预算贡献的88.7%。

The Tech Museum of Innovation will conduct at its facilities in San Jose, CA a three-year project "Extending Science Education: Teaching With and About Technology". Twenty middle school and twenty high school science teachers per year from northern and southern California will work with industry experts and museum staff to learn about latest innovations and developments, having access to industry research and development facilities through summer workshop activities including behind-the-scenes tours and hands-on labs at the Museum that replicate industry applications useful in biology, computer science, chemistry, physics, and mathematics taught at participants' schools. "Challenge activities" based upon these real-world applications will be developed by each of forty, four-person teams beginning in the two-week summer workshop for the teacher-participant and then completed and implemented by a team formed by that teacher with three other teachers of science. They are supported by a mid-year teleconference of participants, project staff, and industry experts in addition to at least one half-day coaching visit and "as- needed" consultation by project staff and industry experts. Dissemination includes each of the 120 participants receiving the publication of all 120 challenge activities as well as presenting their projects in person at a spring fair open to all teachers and community members. Cost sharing by the museum, school districts, and industry accounts for 88.7% of the NSF budget contribution.