Powerplay: Kids Measuring Their Bodies' Responses to Physical Challenges

描述（由申请人提供）： 为了满足全国对与儿童健康和饮食有关的新教育方法的需求，休斯顿儿童博物馆（CMH）和贝勒医学院（Baylor）提议开发和传播一个长期展览，题为“力量游戏：孩子们测量他们身体对身体挑战的反应。“拟议的第一/第二阶段项目将使儿童及其家庭参与基于调查的调查，促进对体育活动、饮食和运动对人体影响的理解、积极态度和健康行为。具体目标是：1）让儿童和家庭参与身体挑战和相关活动，促使他们增加身体活动; 2）使儿童和家庭能够计划和跟踪自己的身体活动和营养; 3）促进儿童和家庭对研究和研究过程的理解。 PowerPlay将开发、评估并提供以下产品和服务：1）在CMH举办互动式长期展览（4，500平方英尺），PowerPlay，吸引游客参与一系列相互关联，新颖，严格的全身物理挑战，整合到一个复杂的多层结构中; 2）规划和跟踪设备和策略，PowerPlanting，用于儿童和家庭成员记录他们的身体对大量体育活动的反应，并在密码保护的个人网络日志上记录他们的进展; 3）以探究为导向的演示和促进活动，PowerScience，由教育工作者，研究生和博士后研究员开发和领导; 4）前/后博物馆实地体验网络资源，包含六个引导探究课程（可下载），专业发展“虚拟研讨会”，以及通过同一网站上的促进讨论论坛与使用课程的其他教师互动的机会。 在贝勒，合作伙伴关系将涉及教育推广中心，协作和互动技术中心，生物医学科学研究生院和儿童营养研究中心，该中心隶属于贝勒在德克萨斯州儿童医院的综合临床研究中心。休斯顿独立学区，全国第七大学区，也将合作评估展览和相关的课堂组成部分，并在项目传播。项目评价将包括：对项目概念和战略的前端评估;形成性评估，包括每个展览组成部分的原型制作以及课堂活动和专业发展会议的实地测试;对参观者对展览的直接反应进行总结性评估，并进行后续电话访谈，以更好地了解随着时间的推移产生的影响。在其至少15年的生命周期中，预计将吸引超过600万游客。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to nationally identified needs for new educational approaches related to children's fitness and diet, the Children's Museum of Houston (CMH) and Baylor College of Medicine (Baylor) propose to develop and disseminate a long-term exhibit entitled, "PowerPlay: Kids measuring their bodies' responses to physical challenges." The proposed Phase l/ll project will engage children and their families in inquiry-based investigations that promote understanding, positive attitudes, and healthy behaviors related to physical activity, diet, and the effects of exercise on the human body. Specific Aims are to: 1) engage children and families in physical challenges and related activities that prompt them to increase their physical activity; 2) enable children and families to plan and track their own physical activity and nutrition; and 3) facilitate children's and families' understanding of research and the research process. PowerPlay will develop, evaluate and make available the following products and services: 1) an interactive, long-term exhibit at CMH (4,500 square feet), PowerPlay, that engages visitors in a set of interconnected, novel, and rigorous full body physical challenges integrated into a complex, multi-story structure; 2) planning and tracking devices and strategies, PowerPlanners, for children and family members to record their bodies' responses to a host of physical activities, and record their progress on a password protected personal web log; 3) inquiry-oriented demonstrations and facilitated activities, PowerScience, developed and led by educators, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; 4) a pre/post museum field experience web resource containing six guided inquiry lessons (downloadable), professional development "virtual workshops," and opportunities to interact with other teachers who are using the lessons via facilitated discussion forums on the same site. At Baylor, the partnership will involve the Center for Educational Outreach, the Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Children's Nutrition Research Center, which is affiliated with Baylor's General Clinical Research Center at Texas Children's Hospital. The Houston Independent School District, the nation's seventh largest school district, also will collaborate in evaluations of the exhibit and related classroom components and in project dissemination. Project evaluation will encompass: front end assessments of project concepts and strategies; formative assessments that include prototyping of each exhibit component and field testing of classroom activities and professional development sessions; and summative assessments of immediate visitor responses to the exhibit and follow-up telephone interviews to achieve better understandings of impacts over time. Over its lifetime of at least 15 years, the exhibit is anticipated to engage more than six million visitors.