Powerplay: Kids Measuring Their Bodies' Responses to Physical Challenges

Powerplay：孩子们测量身体对身体挑战的反应

• 批准号: 7126880
• 负责人: CHERYL D MCCALLUM
• 金额: $ 25.86万
• 依托单位: CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-27 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7126880
• 关键词: Powerplay; Kids; Measuring; Their; Bodies

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 15 years, the exhibit is anticipated to engage more than six million visitors.

描述（由申请人提供）： 为了应对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（Baylor）提议开发和传播长期展览的作品，“ Powerplay：“ Powerplay：孩子们”，他们测量了身体对身体挑战的反应。”拟议的阶段L/LL项目将与儿童及其家人进行基于询问的调查，以促进与体育锻炼，饮食以及运动对人体的影响有关的理解，积极的态度和健康行为。具体目的是：1）让儿童和家庭参与身体挑战和相关活动，促使他们增加身体活动； 2）使儿童和家庭能够计划和跟踪自己的体育锻炼和营养； 3）促进儿童和家庭对研究和研究过程的理解。 PowerPlay将开发，评估和提供以下产品和服务：1）在CMH（4,500平方英尺），PowerPlay的互动式长期展览中，使游客参与了一组相互联系，新颖和严格的全身身体挑战，这些身体挑战集成了一个复杂的多层结构； 2）计划和跟踪设备和策略，PowerPlanners，供儿童和家人记录其对许多体育活动的反应，并在密码保护的个人网log上记录他们的进度； 3）由教育工作者，研究生和博士后研究员开发和领导的，以询问为导向的演示和促进活动； 4）博物馆前/后的现场体验网络资源，其中包含六个指导询问课程（可下载），专业发展“虚拟研讨会”，以及与其他在同一网站上使用的课程使用这些课程的教师互动的机会。 在贝勒（Baylor），合作伙伴关系将涉及教育外展中心，合作和互动技术中心，生物医学研究生院和儿童营养研究中心，该中心隶属于贝勒（Baylor）在德克萨斯州儿童医院的一般临床研究中心。休斯顿独立学区是美国第七大学区，还将合作在展览和相关的课堂组成部分以及项目传播方面进行合作。项目评估将包括：项目概念和策略的前端评估；形成性评估，包括对每个展览组成部分的原型制作和课堂活动和专业发展课程的现场测试；以及对展览和后续电话访谈的直接访客回应的总结评估，以更好地理解随着时间的推移影响。在至少15年的一生中，预计该展览将吸引超过600万游客。