The Global Laboratory II

我们建议继续发展和探索通过强调学生研究来加强学生的科学学习。这一方法成功的关键是技术，包括：使用低成本MBL现场监视器、探头和仪器的学生野外站；实验生长室；以及软件工具。在该项目迄今开发的材料和技术的基础上，我们计划在1992年9月开始的为期两年的现场测试中，对我们的方法进行仔细的评估和继续开发。这产生的关于所采用的技术和战略的作用的数据将回答关于我们方法的力量和可行性的重要问题。我们教学战略的主要组成部分是：1)关注全球生态；2)建立学校研究站，提高技术能力；3)为学生和教师提供一套易于实施的全球生态观察和实验；4)促进学生研究技能的发展；5)通过远程计算和其他共享经验，创建一个学生研究人员社区。在全球实验室项目的这一阶段，我们的工作将集中于支持和评估实地测试，开发填补我们提供实验全球生态能力空白的技术，开发支持课程材料，以及创建教师支持战略。

We propose to continue to develop and explore the enhancement of student learning of science through an emphasis on student research. Key to the success of this approach are technologies including: student field stations using low-cost MBL field monitors, probes, and instruments; experimental growth chambers; and software tools. Building on materials and technology developed so far in the project, we plan a careful evaluation and continued development of our approach in a two-year field test starting September, 1992. The data this yields about the role of the technologies and strategies employed will answer important questions about the power and feasibility of our approach. The major components of our instructional strategy are to: 1) focus on global ecology; 2) establish school research stations with increasing technological capacity; 3) offer students and teachers a suite of observations and experiments in global ecology that can be easily implemented; 4) foster the development of student research skills: and 5) create a community of student researchers knit together through telecomputing and other shared experiences. Our work in this phase of the Global Lab project will concentrate on supporting and evaluating the field test, developing technologies that fill gaps in our ability to offer experimental global ecology, developing supporting curricula material, and creating teacher support strategies.