Coupled Core Science Courses for Integrative Learning

跨学科：99该项目正在为非理科专业的学生开发一系列相互结合的跨学科核心科学课程，并正在创建核心科学资源中心，以加强核心科学课程的设计、交付和评估。为了提高学生的科学素养，正在围绕广泛的主题开发跨学科的核心科学课程。例如，名为人类表现极限的主题将运动物理学课程与营养化学课程结合在一起。新的核心科学资源中心正在与学术卓越中心合作，开发、交付和审查现有的和新的核心科学课程。教师参加有重点的研讨会，设计结合课程，包括创造性的实验室体验、课堂活动和数据分析项目，让学生参与科学研究，并将科学知识与其他类型的知识联系起来。例如，学生们正在使用体育物理学中的手持式加速计，环境科学中的环境气体监测器，以及化学、能源和环境中的太阳能工具包，以收集数据，使他们能够提出关于自然世界的探索性问题。通过为评估活动创造持续的环境，教师能够实施被认为是提高学生学习能力的关键的教学方法。该项目建立在一项更大的机构战略规划倡议的基础上，旨在整合核心课程中的课程，并为那些对科学教学感兴趣的人利用综合教与学树立了榜样。

INTERDISCIPLINARY: 99The project is developing a series of coupled interdisciplinary core science courses for non-science majors and is creating a Resource Center for Core Science to enhance the design, delivery and evaluation of core science courses. In order to increase the science literacy of students, coupled interdisciplinary core science courses are being developed around broad themes. For example, the theme named The Limits of Human Performance couples the course Physics of Sport with the course Chemistry of Nutrition. The new Resource Center for Core Science is partnering with the Center for Academic Excellence to develop, deliver, and review existing and new core science courses. Faculty attend focused workshops to design coupled courses that include creative laboratory experiences, classroom activities, and data analysis projects that engage students in doing science and in connecting scientific knowledge with other types of knowledge. For example, students are using hand-held accelerometers in Physics of Sport, environmental gas monitors in Environmental Science, and solar power kits in Chemistry, Energy and the Environment, to gather data that allows them to ask probing questions about the natural world. By creating an ongoing environment for assessment activities, faculty are able to implement teaching methods recognized as key to enhancing student learning. This project builds on a larger institutional strategic planning initiative that aims to integrate courses across the core curriculum and serves as a model for those interested in the teaching of science using integrative teaching and learning.