Collaborative Research: American Innovations in an Age of Discovery: Teaching Science and Engineering through 3D-printed Historical Reconstructions

合作研究：发现时代的美国创新：通过 3D 打印历史重建教授科学与工程

• 批准号: 1508319
• 负责人: Michael Littman
• 金额: $ 14.37万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1508319&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; American; Innovations; Age

Advanced manufacturing technologies, such as 3D printing, are transforming design and several fields of engineering. This innovative project will use 3D technology to help students learn about science and engineering through the history of inventions in the United States. As part of science and engineering classes, middle and high-school students will use 3D printing technology to recreate historically significant inventions, using digitized versions from the Smithsonian Institution (e.g., the Wright brothers' airplane - http://3d.si.edu). The project will create modules that will connect these significant inventions from the past with contemporary technologies, science, and engineering. Student teamwork will help participants understand the collaborative process of invention. The project will develop supporting materials for middle school science and engineering teachers. This project will advance efforts of the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). The module development will address calls in recent national reports and standards for the integration of engineering in science teaching and learning. The research questions and data collection/analysis will examine how the modules impact student knowledge of the concepts and if teachers can successfully implement them in classrooms. Data to be collected include students' work on the modules, interviews and focus groups with students, interviews with teachers, and classroom observation. Using comparison classrooms, the study will also use pre-tests and post-tests of students' content knowledge to understand the impact of the modules in the treatment classrooms on students' knowledge of science and engineering. The goal will be to document the impact of the modules on students' learning in science and engineering courses and to understand how historical inventions can be used to engage students in how scientific and engineering innovation happen. The implementation will include school districts with diverse populations of students in two states, providing a range of test sites for the materials.

先进的制造技术（例如3D打印）正在改变设计和几个工程领域。这个创新的项目将使用3D技术来帮助学生通过美国发明历史来了解科学和工程。作为科学和工程课程的一部分，中学和高中生将使用3D打印技术来重现历史上重要的发明，使用史密森学会的数字化版本（例如，赖特兄弟的飞机-http://3d.si.edu）。该项目将创建模块，将这些重要的发明与当代技术，科学和工程联系起来。 学生团队将帮助参与者了解发明的协作过程。该项目将为中学科学和工程老师开发支持材料。该项目将促进学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术经验的努力，以更好地理解和促进实践，从而提高学生的动力和能力，从而从事科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）领域的职业。该模块开发将解决最近国家报告和标准在科学教学中整合工程学的呼吁。研究问题和数据收集/分析将研究模块如何影响学生对概念的知识，以及教师是否可以在课堂上成功实施它们。要收集的数据包括学生在模块，访谈和与学生的焦点小组中的工作，与老师的访谈以及课堂观察。使用比较课堂，该研究还将使用学生的内容知识的预测试和后测试，以了解模块在治疗课堂上对学生对科学和工程知识的影响。目的是记录模块对学生在科学和工程课程中学习的影响，并了解如何使用历史发明来吸引学生参与科学和工程创新的方式。该实施将包括在两个州的学生人数不同的学区，为材料提供了一系列测试地点。