Description: "As students in 12th grade are learning to be new drivers, a book focusing on analyzing the forces involved in different types of car crashes may be timely and informative. First, the module presented in this book builds an awareness of the industry of car safety and how technological advances may not be all positive. Second, it gives students a deep understanding of how forces and velocity act at different angles to produce momentum and impact. Third, the module explores the history of safety features in cars and the impacts these features have on society in terms of government rules and individual rights.The module culminates by having students reverse engineer car crash scenarios to explain the factors the led to the crash for the sake of informing law enforcement officials"--
Brief description:
Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Science Education, Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Academy, and Faculty Research Fellow at NCSU. She has been awarded and managed over 75 million in external funding for research and programming across her career - all focused on making STEM for all students a reality. Dr. Johnson has served as an expert advisor to the Office of Science and Technology Policy and has led research and evaluation projects for NASA and the Department of Defense. Dr. Johnson has led several large-scale STEM initiatives, such as the STEM Road Map Curriculum Project and the Handbook of Research on STEM Education (2020), in which the second edition is in progress. Dr. Johnson currently serves as the elected Chair of the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) and the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Science Teaching and Learning. She is on the editorial board of the journal Trends in Higher Education and served as the Editor of the School Science and Mathematics research journal for a decade 2011-21.
Dr. Johnson has worked with thousands of teachers across the U.S. through professional development and training programs. She has also worked with over 50 schools leading their STEM School strategic planning process. Dr. Johnson has received many national awards for her research. Across her career she has published over 50 peer reviewed research articles, 33 books, and 9 book chapters, as well as dozens of evaluation reports for associated federal and state-level STEM evaluation projects. She has developed an industry partner network for the AI Academy comprised of over 100 organizations which are engaged in growing access for historically excluded and underserved individuals to high school instruction, adult workforce development, and college/career paths in artificial intelligence/IT.