Transformative Robotics Experience for Elementary Students (TREES)

探索研究K-12计划（DRK-12）旨在通过研究和开发创新资源，模型和工具（RMT），显着提高学前班学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学。DRK-12计划中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究和先前的研究和开发工作的基础上，这些研究和开发工作为拟议的项目提供了理论和经验依据。这个项目，小学生的变革性机器人体验（TREES），旨在通过促进小学生在人形机器人中的学科参与和参与，更广泛地建立他们在机器人和计算机科学方面的内容知识，编程环境。来自合作学校的四年级和五年级学生将参加一个学期的课程，最终项目涉及将机器人带到一年级和二年级学生的教室，以展示机器人的能力，并促进他们与机器人和计算机科学的学科接触。在两年期间，该项目将涉及总共50名小学生，其中大多数来自布劳沃德县的低社会经济群体，那里非常需要建设技术能力。该项目将在包容性的课堂环境中进行，其中一些参与者将是患有自闭症的高功能学生和一些英语学习者（ELL），使该项目能够覆盖历史上在STEM领域代表性不足的多元化人群。使用基于设计的方法，这个探索性的EAGER项目正在将一种新的复杂技术的边界推向初级阶段。研究结果将促进我们对如何为机器人和计算机科学领域的不同小学生创造学习机会的理解，这些机会将通过培养学科参与来增加他们的内容知识，以便为他们未来在机器人，计算机科学和STEM领域的学习做好准备。

The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This project, Transformative Robotics Experience for Elementary Students (TREES), aims to build elementary age students' content knowledge in robotics and computer science more broadly by fostering their disciplinary engagement and participation within a humanoid robots-programming environment. Fourth and fifth grade students from a collaborating school will participate in a semester long course with a final project that involves bringing the robot to classrooms of first and second grade students to demonstrate the robot's capabilities and promote their disciplinary engagement with robotics and computer science. Over the 2-year period, this project will involve a total of 50 elementary students, the majority of whom are from low socio-economic groups in Broward County, where there is a great need for building technological capabilities. This project will be conducted in an inclusive classroom setting where some participants will be high functioning students with autism and some English language learners (ELLs), allowing the project to reach a diverse population that has historically been underrepresented in STEM fields. Using a design-based approach, this exploratory EAGER project is pushing the boundary of a new and complex technology into elementary grades. Results will advance our understanding of how to create learning opportunities for diverse elementary students in robotics and computer science that would increase their content knowledge by fostering disciplinary engagement in order to prepare them for future learning in robotics, computer science, and STEM fields.