Aerospace Concepts for Elementary Education Majors

基础教育专业的航空航天概念

• 批准号: 9455346
• 负责人: Bruce Carroll
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-02-15 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9455346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Aerospace; Concepts; Elementary; Education; Majors

There is a critical need to improve the quality of science instruction in elementary school classrooms. We address this need by having College of Engineering faculty offer a course for elementary education majors that focuses on current engineering topics and, more importantly, to present material in such a way that future teachers will be able to use the material in their classrooms. This is accomplished by first introducing the scientific principles of an engineering topic, then providing instruction in an appropriate teaching method, and finally completing the topic with a laboratory session that involves projects that can be used in an elementary classroom. The course is being developed by engineering and education faculty in collaboration with elementary school teachers. We will offer each topic as a module to facilitate portability to the elementary classroom and to allow offering the course for either one, two, or three credit hours. We are targeting pre-service elementary majors although the course is suitable for in-service teachers and could be easily tailored to accommodate middle-school participants. We are collaborating with College of Education faculty to overlap this course with their existing science teaching methods course. We expect that participants will be more confident with science topics and, using our material, will be able to teach science more effectively. Dissemination of the developed materials will occur via presentation at professional meetings within the state and nationally. In addition, we are creating a textbook to accompany the course. We will evaluate the effectiveness of the course by interviewing participants and College of Education faculty.

在小学教室中提高科学教学质量的迫切需要。我们通过让工程学院的教职员工为基础教育专业的课程提供了一门专注于当前工程主题的课程，更重要的是，以一种未来的教师能够在课堂上使用材料的方式，提出了材料。这是通过首先介绍工程主题的科学原理，然后在适当的教学方法中提供教学来实现的，最后通过实验室会议完成该主题，该实验室会议涉及可以在小学课堂中使用的项目。 该课程是由工程和教育教师与小学教师合作开发的。 我们将提供每个主题作为一个模块，以促进小学教室的便携性，并允许提供一个，两个或三个学分的课程。尽管该课程适用于服务教师，但我们的目标是为期服务，并且可以轻松量身定制以容纳中学参与者，但我们正在攻击职前专业。 我们正在与教育学院的教师合作，将本课程与他们现有的科学教学方法课程重叠。 我们希望参与者对科学主题更有信心，并使用我们的材料能够更有效地教科学。发达材料的传播将通过在州内和全国内的专业会议上进行介绍。此外，我们正在创建一本教科书以陪同课程。我们将通过采访参与者和教育学院的教师来评估课程的有效性。