Integration of Computer and Multimedia Technology into Traditional Science Lab Curricula

该项目将在多切斯特县切萨皮克学院的剑桥卫星中心开发一个模型科学实验室。通过使用创新的实践方法以及直接使用多媒体、数据处理和模拟软件，这个实验室将被用来让学生参与科学和技术，帮助他们建立一个科学知识库，并鼓励他们在科学或工程领域走上职业道路。教师们将修改目前在基础生物和物理科学教学中采用的方法，以提供一个更好的学习环境，以激发学生的自然好奇心，作为设计实验的起点。剑桥卫星中心位于多切斯特县，那里的人口中有27.9%是非洲裔美国人。1991年，来自多切斯特县的所有首次全日制新生中有41%就读于切萨皮克学院，该县79%的兼职本科生也是如此。预计这笔赠款将显著改善从居住在该地区的目标少数群体中招募理科候选人的工作。

This project will develop a model science lab at Chesapeake College's Cambridge Satellite Center in Dorchester County. Through the use of innovative, hands-on approaches as well as the direct use of multi-media, data manipulation and simulational software, this laboratory will be used to involve students in science and technology, help them to establish a science knowledge base from which to work, and encourage them to follow a career path in a science or engineering field. Faculty will revise the approach currently employ in teaching the basic biological and physical sciences to provide an enhanced learning environment that will call upon students' natural curiosity as a starting point in the design of experiments. The Cambridge Satellite Center is located in Dorchester County, whose population is 27.9 percent African- American. In 1991, 41% of all first-time, full-time freshmen from Dorchester County attended Chesapeake College, as did 79 percent of all part-time undergraduates in the County. It is anticipated that this grant will markedly improve the recruitment of science candidates from a targeted minority population that resides in the area.