2012 Physics Research & Education GRC

这个项目是组织一次重要的会议，以告知、激励和激励本科物理教师开发和使用基于天文学的材料用于他们的教学，从而活跃和丰富本科物理教学大纲。在这次会议上，天文学和物理研究人员将向与会者概述现代天文学和天体物理学的重大发现和技术，并在演讲过程中确定特别适合作为有效和有吸引力的本科物理教学的背景的主题；其他发言者将描述天文学和物理教育研究对如何成功地将天文学应用于物理教学有何看法；第三组发言者将描述目前利用天文学教授物理的努力。其中一个目标是激励参与者为本科物理课程的教学制作高质量的材料。这些目标的智力成就将为学生带来物理学和天文学之间的长期相互关系。通过发展作为天文学和天体物理学发现和技术基础的物理学，物理学教授将帮助学生更好地理解物理学的基本原理。学生们还将了解天文学如何将暗物质和暗能量等潜在的新物理学带入人们的视野。第二，现在对宇宙及其正在进行的发展有了一个普遍接受的宏伟愿景。所有的学生都应该知道这一观点，而物理专业的学生也应该知道证明这一观点的物理原理。这次会议将向物理教授们建议在他们的课程中传达这一愿景的新方法。第三，天文学和空间科学的发现依赖于从物理学基础研究发展而来的技术。这种研究协同效应并不是天文学独有的，但天文学提供了许多案例，清楚地表明研究发现如何导致科学进步，以及对更广泛社会有用的应用。阐明基础研究和实际结果之间的联系是科学教学中具有智力价值的一部分。这次会议将向与会者展示这些联系的可教的例子。更广泛的影响物理教育工作者队伍的形成可能会产生广泛的影响--这一干部队伍将包括代表人数较少的少数族裔教职员工、女性、博士后和研究生--他们将寻求产生广泛的新教材，并将新内容纳入本科物理教学大纲。这种显著的变化可以导致教育更多的人，他们理解支持我们当前宇宙观的推理，如果这些人成为更多接受现代宇宙论权威的人的信息来源和理性论点的来源，结果可能是赋予现代科学以广泛的社会影响的可信度。

This project is the organization of a major conference to inform, inspire, and motivate teachers of undergraduate physics to develop and use astronomy based materials for their teaching and thereby invigorate and enrich the undergraduate physics syllabus. At this conference, astronomy and physics researchers will give participants an overview of the remarkable discoveries and technologies of modern astronomy and astrophysics, and in the course of their presentations identify topics particularly suitable as contexts for effective and engaging undergraduate physics instruction; other speakers will describe what astronomy and physics education research have to say about how to successfully adapt astronomy to the teaching of physics; and a third group of speakers will describe current efforts to use astronomy to teach physics. One of the aims is to inspire participants to produce high-quality materials for teaching in undergraduate physics courses.Intellectual Merit Achievement of the goals will bring before students the longstanding interrelationship of physics and astronomy. By developing the physics that underlies the discoveries and technologies of astronomy and astrophysics, physics professors will help students better understand the basic principles of physics. Students will also see how astronomy brings into view potentially new physics such as dark matter and dark energy. Second, there is now a grand generally accepted vision of the universe and its ongoing development. All students should know this vision, and physics students should know the physics that justifies it. This conference will suggest to physics professors new ways to convey the vision in their courses. Third, the discoveries of astronomy and space science depend on technologies that have grown out of basic research in physics. Such research synergies are not unique to astronomy, but astronomy provides a number of cases that clearly show how research discoveries lead to advances in science and also to applications useful to the broader society. Illustrating connections between basic research and practical consequences is an intellectually valuable part of science teaching. This conference will show the participants teachable examples of these connections. Broader Impact There is potentially a broad impact from the formation of a cadre of physics educators -- a cadre that will include underrepresented minority faculty, women, post-docs, and graduate students -- who will seek to generate a wide range of new teaching materials and to bring new content into the undergraduate physics syllabus. Such a remarkable change can lead to the education of more people who understand the reasoning that supports our current view of the universe, and if these people become a source of information and rational argument for the larger part of the population who accept modern cosmology on authority, the result can be to give modern science a credibility with broad social impact.