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Title: The NIH Life Science Roadmap: Roadwork at the K12 Level


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The NIH Life Science Roadmap Roadwork at the
K-12 Level
  • Lorraine Mulfinger, Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry
  • Director, Juniata College Science In Motion
  • Member, PA Basic Ed / Higher Ed Science
    Technology Partnerships

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OVERVIEW
  • K-12 Science Education Roadmap
  • What is Good K-12 Science Education?
  • Why do Basic Ed / Higher Ed Partnerships make a
    difference?
  • How should K-12/undergraduate interchanges be
    built?
  • Where should the money come from?

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Good Science Education
  • National Science Education Standards
  • National Research Council, 1995 (NAS, NAE, NSF,
    NASA, USDoEd, NIH)
  • Student achievement in science and in other
    school subjects such as social studies, language
    arts, and technology is enhanced by coordination
    between and among the science program and other
    programsThe science programs should be
    coordinated with the mathematics program

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Good Science Education
  • National Science Education Standards
  • National Research Council, 1995 (NAS, NAE, NSF,
    NASA, USDoEd, NIH)
  • Founding principles are
  • Science is for all students.
  • Learning is an active process.
  • School science reflects the intellectual and
    cultural traditions that characterize the
    practice of contemporary science.
  • Improving science education is part of systemic
    education reform.

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Good Science Education
  • National Science Education Standards
  • National Research Council, 1995
  • Principals and Definitions
  • Science is for all students (EQUITY).
  • All students are capable of full participation
  • and of making meaningful
  • contributions in science classes.

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Good Science Education
  • National Science Education Standards
  • National Research Council, 1995
  • Principals and Definitions
  • Learning is an active process. (HANDS-ON)
  • Emphasizing active science learning means
    shifting emphasis away from teachers presenting
    information and covering science topics.

Kids learn science by doing science
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Good Science Education
  • National Science Education Standards
  • National Research Council, 1995
  • Principals and Definitions
  • School science reflects the intellectual
  • and cultural traditions that characterize
  • the practice of the contemporary science.
  • 70s Nuclear Science
  • 80s/90s Molecular Biology DNA
  • 00s Nanotechnology

Nanosurf? Products from nanoScience Instruments
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Good Science Education
  • National Science Education Standards
  • National Research Council, 1995
  • Principals and Definitions (REFORM)
  • Improving science education is part of systemic
    education reform.
  • The components include students and teachers
    schools with principals, superintendents, and
    school boards teacher education programs in
    colleges and universities, textbook publishers,
    communities of parents and of students, scientist
    and engineers science museums businesses and
    industry and legislators.

9
PA Academic Standards for Science and Technology
  • 3.6 3.7 Technology Education Devices
  • Students develop the ability to select and
    correctly use materials, tools, techniques, and
    processes to answer questions
  • These standards require students to design,
    create, use, evaluate and modify systems of
    Biotechnologies, Information Technologies, and
    Physical Technologies
  • Equipment (not just computers) access is
    essential to meeting these standards (The
    Nations Report Card, 2003)

10
How does inquiry take place in this classroom?
Where is the technology?
Where is the equity in meeting the standards?
Who is making the decisions?
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U.S. and State Government K-12 Education Systems
School Boards
  • Public education is a STATE mandate
  • Responsibility is delegated to local authorities
  • School boards are elected officials with no
    specified education or training

First God created morons that was for practice.
Then he created school boards. Mark Twain
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Basic Education/Higher Education Science
Technology Partnerships Catalysts for Systemic
Reform
13
  • PA Basic Ed/Higher Ed
  • Science Technology Partnerships
  • A consortium of 11 higher eds and 200 school
    districts
  • Funded by the Commonwealth of PA since 1997
  • Began as NSF-funded (1987-1997)Science In
    Motion pilot project at Juniata College
  • Mission Remove the Obstacles to Good Science
    Education

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RECONGNIZED SUCCESS
  • Featured by
  • ABC News with Peter Jennings
  • American Business Review feature with Morley Safer
  • Winner of the 2003 Innovations Award from the
    national Council of State Governments

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Obstacles to Good Science Ed
  • Lack of resources
  • Equipment supplies are expensive
  • (GC, Electrophoresis, Spectroscopy, Microscopy)
  • Isolation
  • Lack of professional development opportunities
    involving contemporary science (62 lt 3 hrs/yr)
  • Inability to collaborate with other teachers in
    the same content area
  • Lack of time
  • Full teaching schedules fail to allow time to
    develop or even to set up labs

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Solution Basic Ed/Higher Ed Sci Tech
Partnerships
  • Higher Education Institutions Provide
  • Teacher Training with HE Partners
  • Continuing Professional Development
  • Resources for the Classroom
  • Mobile Educator Support IN the Classroom
  • Cost Efficacy
  • Sharing of Expensive Resources
  • Infrastructure (facilities and personnel) already
    in place

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Partnerships for Good Science Ed
Science In Motion 1999 Assessment 4 Labs / Month
Statewide assessments underway
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What IS Good Science Ed?
  • Science In Motion Assessment Results
  • Students in project schools answered twice as
    many test questions correctly
  • SIM Students demonstrated higher-order thinking
    skills
  • SIM students are capable of using the techniques
    that modern scientists use.

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11 Pennsylvania Sites

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Programs in U.S.
  • Model Programs in 10 States

Statewide Programs
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Funding Sources for Basic Ed / Higher Ed
Partnerships
23
Funding for Basic Ed / Higher Ed Partnerships
The Ideal Pennsylvania Program...
  • 60 High Ed Partnerships should serve
  • 30,000 students, K-12
  • 8-12 Rural School Districts

OR
  • Part of a Single Urban School District

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Funding for Basic Ed / Higher Ed Partnerships
  • Each Partnership would have
  • Biology Van
  • Chemistry Van
  • Physics Van
  • Elementary Van

Interdisciplinary activities are a challenge to
incorporate in high schools where subjects are
taught compartmentally.
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Funding for Basic Ed / Higher Ed Partnerships
The funding for these projects would be an
average of 55 per year per child. 30,000
Students x 55 Per Child 1,650,000 Per Year
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US EDUCATIONAL SPENDING Per Pupil Spending
55 lt1 of total student spending
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SUSTANING FUNDINGFederal or State/Local Support?
NSF Mission To promote the progress of science
to advance the national health, prosperity, and
welfare and to secure the national defense.
PA State Constitution shall provide for the
maintenance and support of a thorough and
efficient system of public education PA
School Code (School Boards) review and approve
curriculum text books
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HOW IS SCIENCE FUNDED?The future of (MSPs)
120 M may move to USDoEd
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...and SCIENCE?Its all about THE TEST PA
will not test science until 2008.
READING, RITING RITHMATIC
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CONCLUSION Short Term
  • In the current climate, sustained funding will
    most likely be at the state level
  • Equity
  • Cost Efficacy (shared resources)
  • Constitutional Mandate States can enact
    legislation to raise necessary revenues
  • Science has a key role in workforce economic
    development state priorities

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CONCLUSION Long Term
  • Funding COULD occur at the federal level if
    science were made a national priority and was
    seen as important as reading and math
  • THERE IS A P.R. JOB TO BE DONE.

32
CRISIS SOLVED BY SCIENCE
  • Unemployment
  • Infrastructure Support
  • Medicine
  • Electrical Grid
  • Computer Networks
  • Anti-terrorism

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Space Exploration
Biomechanics
Higher Ed Outreach Paving the way for K-12
Education
Electronmicroscopy
Computational Biology Chemistry
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PA Basic Ed/Higher Ed Science and Technology
Partnerships
  • Statewide Project Coordinators
  • Dr. Lorraine Mulfinger
  • Dr. Don Mitchell
  • Juniata College
  • Huntingdon, PA 16652
  • 814-641-3566 or mulfinger_at_juniata.edu
  • www.scienceinmotion.org
  • internet links to other higher ed program
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