EAGER: A Prototype WorldWide Telescope Visualization Lab Designed in the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment

pi正在开发和测试一个原型可视化实验室，旨在帮助中学生理解为什么从地球上观察月球似乎有阶段。这项工作是通过以下两方面的合作完成的：(i)开发了世界望远镜宇宙信息系统（WWT）的天文学家和世界望远镜大使计划，作为一种将天文学家的大数据和可视化能力带给儿童和学校的方式；（ii） WISE团队中的学习科学家，他们在利用人们如何学习开发技术丰富的中学科学课程方面有着悠久的历史。由WWT团队开发的天文学数据和可视化工具正在被整合到WISE的技术基础设施中，对于课程开发人员来说，它为促进学习的课程开发提供了框架，对于学习者来说，它为协作理解他们正在经历的事情提供了工具和资源。正在收集的数据将显示将这两个项目结合起来促进天文学学习的潜力。拥有900万次下载的世界望远镜计算机程序，以及自1998年以来由美国国家科学基金会资助的WISE环境，都是免费提供的，并被作为展示网络学习方法前景的例子。该项目有潜力展示正式结合两种现代技术的力量，一种是由工业开发的，另一种是由公共基金开发的，以加强在线学习和教育研究。在EAGER资助下开发的方法将为未来的公私伙伴关系提供一个范例，并为通过访问科学家的大数据和工具吸引学生和促进学习提供一个模式。它将为公众提供免费的软件来学习月相，并促进长期的合作伙伴关系，这可能会极大地影响初中生和高中生接触和学习天文学的方式，以及天文学家如何进行科学研究。

The PIs are developing and testing a prototype visualization lab designed to help middle schoolers understand why the moon appears to have phases when observed from Earth. The work is being done through a partnership between (i) astronomers who have developed the WorldWide Telescope Universe Information System (WWT) and the World Wide Telescope Ambassadors program as a way of bringing the big data and visualization capabilities of astronomers to children and schools and (ii) learning scientists on the WISE team who have a long history of using what is known about how people learn to develop technology-rich middle school science curriculum. Astronomy data and tools for visualization developed by the WWT team is being integrated into WISE's technological infrastructure, which, for curriculum developers, scaffolds the development of curriculum that promotes learning, and for learners, makes available tools and resources for collaboratively making sense of what they are experiencing. Data is being collected that will show the potential of bringing these two projects together for promoting astronomy learning.The WorldWide Telescope computer program, with 9 million downloads, and the WISE environment, funded by NSF since 1998, are both freely available and held up as examples showing the promise of cyberlearning approaches. This project holds the potential to demonstrate the power of formally combining two modern technologies, one developed in industry and the other with public funds, to enhance online learning and educational research. The approaches developed under this EAGER grant will offer an example for future private/public partnerships and a model for engaging students and promoting learning through access to the big data and tools of scientists, and it will result in free software for the public to use in learning about moon phases and catalyze a long-term partnership with potential for dramatically impacting the ways middle schoolers and high schoolers are exposed to and learn about astronomy and how astronomers do science.