NSF GK-12 Educational Activities and Future Directions

This program is based upon collaborative work supported by a National Science Foundation Grant No. 0841259; Colorado State University, Thomas Chen, Principal Investigator, Michael A. De Miranda and Stuart Tobet Co-Principal Investigators. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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This program is based upon collaborative work supported by a National Science Foundation Grant No. 0841259; Colorado State University, Thomas Chen, Principal Investigator, Michael A. De Miranda and Stuart Tobet Co-Principal Investigators. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Educational Activities – Translating Research in to New Classroom Content Project PI team meetings with

school Principals and key stakeholders each semester

Fellows and teachers co-planning in CSU research labs during summer and getting ready for the school year

Educational Activities – Teacher and Fellow Curriculum Innovations

Lesson plans /presentations- 32

Inquiry and design labs – 37

Engineering Inquiry & Design Project – Longitudinal Teams

Universal Lessons and videos “Implementing a Junior Fellow Project:

Overview "Introduction to Migration" "Introduction to Mathematical Modeling" "Introduction to Electrochemistry" “Introduction to Sensors”

Educational Activities – Inquiry/Design Project Implemented an inventive multi-

disciplinary Junior Fellows research experience project

Over 73 high school students participated

12 research teams lead by Junior Fellows, Mentored by CSU Fellows

Educational Activities – Projects Junior Fellows and teams were

challenged to solve a cross disciplinary problem that mirrored the GK-12 project research

Educational Activities – Projects

Fellows and teachers co-developed four universal lesson Project overview video Instructional videos – 4 Student inquiry labs Enduring understanding note pages and worksheets Teacher guide and instructions for implementation and project

overview video

http://csu-gk12.engr.colostate.edu/

Educational Activities – Capstone Activity Students Presented Research Posters at CSU Annual

Explore Engineering Day

Attended by Teachers Parents CSU Faculty Guests

Educational Activities – Student Assessment – Pre-Post Test

Educational Activities – Student Assessment – Pre-Post Test Results

Students who engaged in the whole and mature integrated STEM inquiry and engineering design problem significantly different treatment effects on post test compared to pre test scores

• Applied Conceptual Connections, d= .41• Applied Conceptual Understanding d=.41• Problem Solving Sophistication d= .39

Educational Activities – Outreach GK-12 students and teachers participated in Annual ISTeC High

School Day Industry sponsored Workshops Contests Education and industry fair Additional planning and team building for teachers, fellows

and students

Educational Activities – Outreach National CSU GK-12 project selected to present workshop at Annual GK-12

National Conference Fellows and teachers collaborated to present interdisciplinary

Junior Fellow Project Over 45 fellows and teachers from other GK-12 projects

attended Participants received DVD on how to implement project

Including lessons, timelines, surveys, Junior Fellow application forms, and assessment rubrics

Educational Activities – Outreach International

CSU GK-12 fellows travel to Slovenia and meet with teachers Teachers from Slovenia begin to use lesson, labs, and

projects on CSU GK-12 website Fellows participate in Skype with Slovenian teachers Cooperation continuing and ongoing to build teacher-to-

teacher bridges

Educational Activities - Industry Summer workshop and planning

weeks that included industry tour to Avago Technologies where teachers and fellows were walked through the microchip fabrication process.

Educational Activities – Future Directions Build on our continued effort to bring

new STEM content into our classrooms

Strengthen teacher-to-teacher connections with Pueblo Central High School teachers

Strengthen teacher-to-teacher connections with Slovenia School teachers

Expand multi-teacher trans-disciplinary inquiry and design projects that; Engage students in complex inquiry

and design problems that require integration of co-dependent knowledge construction and fusion

Teachers using content border-crossings to “connect content dots”

New STEM learning progression Additional student assessment of

newly learned STEM content