NSF Program Pairs K-12 Teachers with MSU Researchers

MichiganPolicy.com
Written by Xin Yu
Monday, 31 May 2010 22:29

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide $2.65 million grant to team Michigan State University (MSU) graduate students with K-12 science teachers from 11 area school districts. This new GK-12 Bioenergy Sustainability Project will fund eight graduate fellowships per year for five years, which is designed to provide classroom support for local teachers while making college students better science communicators. The fellows collaborate with K-12 teachers to design and help supervise student "inquiry activities" exploring ecologically sustainable energy production. A goal of this project is to help future scientists become better at communicating their science, to be able to explain their research results in a popular way to different audiences instead of those absurd terminologies. And a happy byproduct of the NSF grant is that it also benefits local students and teachers, since nationally they are struggling to make K-12 science education more effective.

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