Powerplay: Kids Measuring Their Bodies' Responses to Physical Challenges

为了回应国家确定的与儿童健身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(贝勒)建议开发和 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的反应》 拟议的L/11阶段项目将使儿童及其家庭参与以调查为基础的调查， 促进与体育活动、饮食和健康行为相关的理解、积极态度和健康行为，以及 对人体的锻炼。具体目标是：1)让儿童和家庭参与体育挑战和相关 促使他们增加体力活动的活动；2)使儿童和家庭能够计划和跟踪他们自己的活动 体力活动和营养；3)促进儿童和家庭对研究和研究的理解 进程。 Power Play将开发、评估和提供以下产品和服务：1)互动、长期 在CMH(4,500平方英尺)，Powerplay展出，吸引参观者参观一套相互关联、新颖而严谨的完整 身体物理挑战集成到复杂的多层结构中；2)规划和跟踪设备以及 儿童和家庭成员的策略，PowerPlanner，记录他们的身体对一系列生理事件的反应 活动，并在受密码保护的个人网络日志上记录他们的进度；3)面向查询的演示和 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)a 博物馆前/后现场体验网络资源，包含六节指导性问答课程(可下载)，专业 开发“虚拟研讨会”，并有机会通过以下途径与使用课程的其他教师互动 促进同一网站上的讨论论坛。 在贝勒，合作伙伴关系将涉及教育外联中心、合作和互动中心 生物医学研究生院和儿童营养研究中心，这是 隶属于德克萨斯州儿童医院贝勒综合临床研究中心。休斯顿私立学校 美国第七大学区学区也将合作评估展览和相关 在教室组成部分和项目传播方面。项目评估将包括：前端评估 项目概念和战略；形成性评估，包括每个展品组成部分和领域的原型 对课堂活动和专业发展会议进行测试；以及对即刻进行终结性评估 参观者对展览的反应和后续电话采访，以更好地了解 时间到了。在其至少15年的寿命中，展览预计将吸引600多万参观者。

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 15years, the exhibit is anticipated to engage more than six million visitors.