Title:
Geoscience Education through Intelligent Tutors (GETIT)
Date:
September 14, 1995
Award
Number: 9450251
Award Link at
NSF: NSF Award
Abstract
Program
Manager: Gerhard L. Salinger, ESI Division of
Elementary, Secondary and Informal Science Education.
Start
Date: September 1, 1995
Principal
Investigator: Edward E. Geary
Sponsor:
Geological Society of America
Abstract:
"This geoscience project proposes to develop and disseminate an integrated ,interactive, multimedia, computer-based curriculum for middle school earth science students (grades 5-8). The program would enable students to explore real data for developing and testing hypothesis. Problems are posed by the curriculum and lesson sequences center on solving a specific earth science problem with designed software tools. A constructivists learning model is used. Students prepare their own workbooks in this project and evaluate their own progress. The GETIT lessonware would serve both as instruction software and as a research tool."