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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Updated
9 April 2008
Teacher
and Fellow Opportunities for 2008-2009 Academic Year
Application
Deadline: 24 March 2008
Fellow
Application (pdf)
Teacher Application
(pdf)
Meetings:
Fellow
Monthly Meeting on Monday 14 April, 5:00 pm at MSI Video Conference
Room
Fellow-Teacher Monthly Meeting on Monday 14 April, 5:30 pm at MSI
Video Conference Room
Upcoming
Field Trips:
FBISD, 5th Grade, 9:00 am - 1:00
pm, 7 May (Ada Anderson)
FBISD, 6th Grade, 8:30 am - 1:00 pm, 12 May (Cliff Strain)
FBISD,
6th Grade, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, 13 May (Terri Noack)
FBISD,
6th Grade, 8:30 am - 1:00 pm, 19 May (Cliff Strain)
Workshops:
Science,
Evolution, and Intelligent Design. Part I with Dr. Chris Bell. Saturday
29 March, 9:15-noon at UTMSI Video Classroom
Science,
Evolution, and Intelligent Design. Part II. Discussion.
Friday 18 April, 6:00-8:00 pm at UT Austin.
Edwards
Aquifer and Cave Field Trip with Jay Banner.
Saturday 19 April, 9:00 am-5:00 pm at UT Austin.
Science
and Learning:
Video conference course with Dr. Bob Duke. 24 January, 7 February,
26 February, 27 March, 15 April, 6-8 pm.
Recent
Events:
Port
Aransas ISD held a successful Science Night Feb. 12, at the H.G.
Olsen Elementary School cafeteria. Flour
Bluff ISD had their Science Night on Monday, 25 February from 5:30-7:30
pm.
Presentation to PAISD School Board occurred on Thursday, 17 January
at 6:00 pm.
Presentation to FBISD School Board occurred on Thursday, 28 February
at 6:00 pm.
Outreach
Lectures:
Port
Aransas: see the UTMSI
Web Site
Austin:
see the ESI
Web Site
Outreach
Lecture Sponsored Trip to Austin.
Depart Port Aransas at 1:00 pm on April
4, 2008. God,
Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial by Dr.
Kenneth Miller
Future
Symposium Dates:
UT-Austin GK-12 2007-2008 Symposium
Sunday, 8 June, 1:00-7:00 pm in Austin
Workshop
Dates (2008-2009 Program Participants Only):
Austin:
Friday-Sunday, 6-8 June
Port Aransas: Tuesday-Thursday, 9-12 June (participants must arrive
in Port Aransas by
7 pm Monday, 8 June)
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Upcoming
Meetings: http://www.gk12.org/meetings.php
Funded
for 2007-2011
Title: Continuing, GK-12: From
Aquifers to Estuaries - Tracing a Drop of Water via an Interactive
Program Linking UT Scientists with K-12 Students and Teachers
Institution: The University
of Texas at Austin
PI, Kenneth Dunton, Co-PI's Jay Banner, Jill Marshall, Chris Bell
and Michael Marder
Eight graduate Fellows, 16 classrooms, at least 16 teachers per
year, in the Austin, Flour Bluff, and Port Aransas school districts.
The program targets grades 5-8. The schools draw students from a
spectrum of urban to rural settings. NSF disciplines include marine
science, geological sciences, physics, chemistry, environmental
science, biology, geography, and mathematics.
Highlights of our project include: 1) Fellow-led field and classroom
learning experiences for K-12 students; 2) a graduate-level summer
field course for teachers; 3) joint summer teacher and Fellow training
in partnership with a nationally recognized pre-service training
program; 4) a new course on pedagogy for Fellows; 5) collaborative
development and implementation of teacher in-service training days
at under-performing schools; 6) dissemination of activities and
lesson plans developed by teacher-Fellow teams via comprehensive
websites, workshops, and publications; 7) innovative outreach lectures
and workshops; 8) 8-year sustainability for GK-12 activities and;
9) a GK-12 associates program to involve larger populations of graduate
students.
Intellectual Merit: The proposed program will build partnerships
between scientists and the K-12 community by focusing on interdisciplinary
environmental and watershed sciences. It will develop a solid framework
for interdisciplinary teaching about water in the physical and human
environments, making creative links between math, science, social
science, and technology. Unique learning activities will integrate
math, science, and GIS technology in the classroom with field experiences
in order to address important societal issues in inland and coastal
watersheds.
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