Collaborative Research: Biocomplexity and the Habitable Planet -- An Innovative Capstone Course for High School

合作研究：生物复杂性和宜居星球——高中创新顶点课程

• 批准号: 0628171
• 负责人: Gillian Puttick
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: TERC Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0628171&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Biocomplexity; Habitable; Planet; Collaborative; Research; Biocomplexity; Habitable; Planet

This project will develop a set of instructional materials that engages students, teachers and their parents in the science of coupled natural human (CNH) systems. Teacher guides, a website and family/community materials accompany the four student modules (which focus on an urban watershed, an urban/agricultural system, Amazonia and a polar system). The curriculum provides material for a yearlong capstone course; individual modules can be used as replacement units. In an era of global human impact on the environment, understanding the "complex fabric of relationships" between humans and the environment is of unique urgency for all citizens. It is no longer possible to study "natural" systems without considering human interactions. There is a need for high school materials that reflect this critically important fact, and that also support students to engage in authentic investigations of systems phenomena. To address this need, Biocomplexity draws on current research by the Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and other CNH Biocomplexity grantees as the basis for the materials. Biocomplexity is inquiry-based. Student materials scaffold activities to support all students -- particularly those from historically underserved backgrounds -- to learn successfully. Curriculum design is informed by research on progression in student learning of scientific content and reasoning. Developed using the "backward design" approach, Biocomplexity ensures that instructional strategies promote learning the key ideas. Biocomplexity is an "educative curriculum:" teacher materials provide extensive and practical support that increasing teachers' content knowledge and pedagogical skills. This proposal promises to effectively link the high school classroom with important current science and at the same time extend and strengthen the learning of core scientific and mathematical concepts, in the context of an innovative curriculum incorporating authentic scientific inquiry and using a case-based approach. Furthermore, the project will make a significant contribution to educational research on students' understanding of models and their use in science inquiry. This curriculum makes a unique contribution to the field because of its grounding in current research on Biocomplexity. Its focus on CNH systems, situated in urban, rural and other settings, results in problem-based cases in applied science that will compel the interest of students from all backgrounds. Students experience authentic scientific inquiry, exploring the same fundamental ideas that engage scientists and researchers. Informed by the best recent research -- both scientific and educational -- the curriculum will reflect the growing importance of science unifying insights from many fields of biological inquiry. Community elements serve to develop strong ties between school, parents and communities. The partnership with researchers at LTERs and elsewhere will have positive synergistic outcomes for the LTERs' education programs, while connecting a new range of nationally important research centers with high school classrooms across the country.

该项目将开发一套教学材料，使学生，老师及其父母在耦合自然（CNH）系统的科学中。 教师指南，网站和家庭/社区材料伴随着四个学生模块（该模块的重点是城市流域，城市/农业系统，亚马逊和极地系统）。 该课程提供了为期一年的顶峰课程的材料；单个模块可以用作替换单元。 在全球人类对环境的影响时代，了解人类与环境之间的“关系的复杂结构”对所有公民都是独特的紧迫性。 不考虑人类互动的情况下，不再可能研究“天然”系统。 需要高中材料来反映这一至关重要的事实，这也支持学生对系统现象进行真实的调查。 为了满足这一需求，生物复杂性借鉴了长期生态研究（LTER）站点和其他CNH BioComplexity Gusthes作为材料的基础的当前研究。 生物复杂性是基于查询的。学生材料脚手架活动，以支持所有学生，尤其是那些在历史悠久的背景下的学生 - 成功学习。 课程设计是通过对学生学习科学内容和推理的进步的研究来告知的。 生物复杂性使用“向后设计”方法开发，可确保教学策略促进学习关键思想。 BioComplexity是“教育课程：”教师材料提供了广泛而实用的支持，以提高教师的内容知识和教学技能。该提案有望有效地将高中教室与当前重要的科学联系起来，同时在融合了真实的科学询问并采用基于案例的方法的创新课程的背景下，扩展并加强了核心科学和数学概念的学习。 此外，该项目将为学生对模型的理解及其在科学探究中的使用做出重大贡献。 该课程为该领域做出了独特的贡献，因为它在当前的生物复杂性研究中基础。 它的重点是位于城市，农村和其他环境中的CNH系统，导致应用科学的基于问题的案例，这将迫使来自所有背景的学生的兴趣。 学生经历了真实的科学询问，探讨了吸引科学家和研究人员的基本思想。 在科学和教育的最佳研究中，该课程将反映出科学从许多生物探究领域统一见解的重要性。 社区因素有助于在学校，父母和社区之间建立牢固的联系。与LTER和其他地方的研究人员的合作关系将对LTERS的教育计划产生积极的协同成果，同时将一系列全国重要的研究中心与全国高中教室联系起来。