A PARTNERSHIP LINKING FORMAL INFORMAL EDUCATION

(摘自申请者摘要)：华盛顿大学(吴)教职员工 而吴科学外展处的工作人员将与来自 圣路易斯主要非正式科学机构，即圣路易斯 科学中心、圣路易斯动物园和密苏里州植物园 生成八个以探究为基础的教学单元，旨在实现 正式(基于课堂)和非正式(基于ISI)之间的强大协同 研究性学习体验。八大生物和生物医学 为这些单元选择的每个主题都是为了利用 这三个杰出的ISIS提供了独特的教育资源， 同时解决当地教师表达的迫切需求 谁关心达到新的国家科学教育标准 (NSE)。每个单元将在垂直整合的中学生产，并 高中版，并将旨在帮助教师传达“大 NSE中确定的主要主题领域之一的“想法”，使用 调查性方法，并利用其中一个ISIS的资源 激发学生的兴趣，增加课堂调查。每个单元 将由首席调查员(首席调查员)、 联席主任、项目协调员、吴教授专家、来自 参赛的ISI，一所中学和一名高中教师，阿武 研究生和项目评估员。随着部队为现场做好准备 测试，每个人将被介绍给一组合作的教师在 工作坊(在参与的政府新闻处举行，他们将在会上预览 他们的学生可以在三军情报局和 在教室里，听一位吴教员关于最近和 在该主题领域的前瞻性研究进展，并将有 有机会与他人建立联系。每个老师都将离开 所有书面材料(教师版和学生版)的工作坊， 物资、三军情报局联系人等，将需要在#年实施该单位 没有不适当的耽搁就走进了教室。各类专业评估 将在每个单元的开发、测试和修改的所有阶段进行， 主要的重点是评估教育影响。

(Adapted from applicants abstract): Washington University (WU) faculty members and the staff of the WU Science Outreach office will join with educators from the major informal science institutions (ISIs) of St. Louis, namely, the St. Louis Science Center, the St. Louis Zoo, and the Missouri Botanical Garden, to generate eight inquiry-based instructional units designed to achieve a powerful synergy between formal (classroom-based) and informal (ISI-based) investigative learning experiences. The eight biological and biomedical topics selected for these units have each been chosen to exploit the distinctive educational resources available at these three outstanding ISIs, while at the same time addressing urgent needs articulated by local teachers who are concerned about meeting the new National Science Education Standards (NSES). Each unit will be produced in vertically integrated middle school and high school versions, and will be designed to help teachers convey the "big ideas" in one of the major topic areas identified in the NSES, using an investigatory approach, and exploiting the resources of one of the ISIs to engage student interest and augment the classroom investigations. Each unit will be developed by a team comprising the Principal Investigator (PI), the co-Director, the Program Coordinator, a WU faculty expert, a staff member from the participating ISI, a middle school and a high school teacher, a WU graduate student and the program evaluator. As units become ready for field testing, each will be introduced to a group of cooperating teachers at a workshop (held at the participating ISD in which they will preview the investigations that will be available for their students at the ISI and in the classroom, hear a presentation by a WU faculty member about recent and prospective research advances in the topic area, and will also have an opportunity to network with one another. Each of the teachers will leave the workshop with all of the written materials (teacher and student versions), supplies, ISI contacts, etc., that will be required to implement the unit in the classroom without undue delay. Professional evaluations of various types will be made at all stages of development, testing and revision of each unit, with major emphasis being placed on evaluating the educational impact.