Material and Energy Flow in Engineered and Natural Systems: Textbook Proposal for a Focused Introductory Environmental Science Course Incorporating Laboratory & Computer Mode

工程和自然系统中的物质和能量流：关于包含实验室的重点环境科学入门课程的教科书提案

• 批准号: 0231358
• 负责人: Rachel Austin
• 金额: $ 7.49万
• 依托单位: Bates College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-05-15 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Material; Energy; Flow; Engineered; Natural

Public policy issues involving aspects of environmental science are characterized by their complexity and by the changing nature of the day's critical problem. Traditional environmental science textbooks that catalog current issues are useful in making students literate about today's problems but do little to prepare students to solve or think critically about tomorrow's undiscovered problems. We are developing and teaching a course structured to teach students how to conceptualize and tackle scientific problems in the environment. We wish to turn our work into a textbook that includes suggested laboratory/field projects designed to introduce students to experimental approaches and their constraints as well as suggested modeling problems using the user friendly modeling software Stella. We already have a conceptual core for our project, several successful laboratory/field exercises that incorporate sequential development of skills and sophistication, and a number of problems and cases. The aim of this project is to develop additional field/laboratory exercises; collect more current environmental data to support problems, laboratory modules and student inquiry; develop new problems; write additional computer models; write our ideas in chapter form; discuss our work with others and discuss the work of others with them; and develop and implement methods for judging our work's effectiveness

涉及环境科学方面的公共政策问题的特征是它们的复杂性和当天关键问题的不断变化。传统的环境科学教科书将当前问题分类对于使学生识字当今的问题很有用，但对学生做好准备解决或批判性地思考明天未发现的问题。我们正在开发和教授一门结构化的课程，以教导学生如何概念化和解决环境中的科学问题。 我们希望将我们的工作变成一本教科书，其中包括建议的实验室/现场项目，旨在向学生介绍实验方法及其限制，并使用用户友好的建模软件Stella提出建模问题。我们已经为项目提供了一个概念核心，几项成功的实验室/现场练习结合了技能和复杂性的顺序发展，以及许多问题和案例。该项目的目的是开发其他现场/实验室练习；收集更多当前的环境数据，以支持问题，实验室模块和学生查询；发展新问题；编写其他计算机模型；用章节形式写出我们的想法；与他人讨论我们的工作，并与他人讨论他人的工作；并开发和实施方法来判断我们的工作有效性