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Keep On Keepin ’ On. Laura Whitmore Hughes Scholars Program. The Challenges of Science Outreach in Local Schools. William Inskeep LRES. Hughes Scholar HUB. WHY OUTREACH ?. Project Approach. Successes. Initial Challenges. Preparation complications. Running Late Timing
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Keep On Keepin’ On Laura Whitmore Hughes Scholars Program The Challenges of Science Outreach in Local Schools
William InskeepLRES Hughes ScholarHUB
Initial Challenges • Preparation complications. • Running Late • Timing • Difficult to facilitate • Like a library, and literally, a library • Volunteers • Content breadth
Follow Up • What is climate • Human induced vs naturally induced • Greenhouse gasses • Primary sources of greenhouse gasses
Planning for Spring Semester BELGRADE INTERMEDIATE WHITTIER ELEMENTARY LONGFELLOW ELEMENTARY
Impressions from Teachers “We have made a deliberate, conscious, meta-cognizant decision to put science on the backburner for the reason to put reading and math forward. That is the result of a minority group struggling with literature and math.” “We don’t teach science because we teach to the test and science isn’t scored…” “Because of the NCLB Act students do not know how to work in groups. … Teachers don’t give up time to allow for outside presentation because of mandated teaching limits due to prescribed curriculum.”
Acknowledgments • Hughes Undergraduate Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute , support from the Complex Biological Systems SURP • Martha Sellers • Kylie Perlinski • Jerry Lince(5th Grade Teacher) and Belgrade Intermediate School. • Volunteers • Jacob Simon • Hallie OinesAnthony Rampello • Bill Inskeepand Laboratory