GIRLS AT THE CENTER

9552559美国富兰克林研究所和女童子军将开发、实施和评估“女孩在中心”，这是一项家庭外展计划，将促进以女孩为中心的家庭学习。将促进地方科学和技术中心与女童军理事会之间的伙伴关系。这是一个多组成部分的方案，将增加女孩及其家庭对基础科学原理和过程的了解和兴趣。科学/技术中心将作为东道主，在学年期间举办一系列以家庭为导向的活动。这些以博物馆为基础的活动将得到以家庭为基础的活动的补充。这些活动将遵循建构主义教育理论，涵盖生态学、能源学和人类生理学等广泛的科学学科以及科学职业机会。它们将与女童子军表彰(徽章)计划的要求联系起来。它是建立在之前美国国家科学基金会资助的一个项目的成功基础上的，该项目名为“女童军理事会和博物馆的国家科学伙伴关系”，预计在资助期内将覆盖全美25个地点的75,050名女孩和112,575名成年人。它将被制度化，并将继续在这些地点运作，并在NSF资助期后扩展到其他地点。

9552559 McCreedy The Franklin Institute and the Girl Scouts of the USA will develop, implement, and evaluate "Girls at the Center," a family outreach program that will foster girl-centered, learning within the context of the family. Partnerships will be promoted between local science and technology centers and Girl Scout Councils. It is a multi- component program that will increase girls' and their families' understanding of and interest in basic science principles and processes. Consisting of a series of family-oriented activities that coincide with the school year, science/technology centers will serve as the hosts. These museum-based activities will be supplemented by home-based activities. The activities will follow the constructivist theory of education and will cover a broad menu of scientific disciplines including ecology, energy, and human physiology as well as science careers opportunities. They will be linked to the requirements for the Girl Scout recognition (badges) program. It is building on the success of a previously NSF funded project "National Science Partnerships for Girls Scout Councils and Museum" and is expected to reach 75,050 girls and 112,575 adults in 25 sites across the US during the funding period. It will be institutionalized and will continue to operate in those sites as well as expand to other sites after the NSF-funded period.