2006 — 2010 |
Das, Jayatri Redwing, Ronald Tinker, Elizabeth |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Mps - Ipse: Internships For Bringing Today's Science to Tomorrow's Scientists @ Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
This MPS Internships in Public Science Education (MPS-IPSE) award to Penn State University, University Park is to develop innovative museum materials and home-based science projects focused on nanotechnology and thereby increase appreciation and understanding of the materials science. This project, a renewal of an earlier one (# 0324780), is supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in MPS and will be carried out through partnership of the Penn State MRSEC program with the Franklin Institute, Cornell Center for Materials Research and Ithaca Sciencenter. With this award, research scientists, graduate students and exhibit development personnel from partner institutions will develop 60-minutes cart-based interactive shows 'Material Discovery Projects' that will explore the micromechanisms for the macro behavior of materials. The project is expected to advance the understanding of material science through the development of innovative museum shows and at-home activities. The interactive shows that are being developed will strengthen the connections between the partner institutions, and likely lead to additional future collaborations. Faculty and researchers in the partner institutions will have the opportunity to take their research ideas from the laboratory and deliver them to the general public.
Broader Impact: This program provides interns with experiences that improve their understanding of the process of science and the experience of communicating cutting edge research ideas to the public. These graduate students (mostly pre-service K-12 teachers) work closely with scientists and professionals in public science education and gain skills that they can later use in their classrooms. The interns' efforts and products will affect hundreds of thousands of individuals each year through museum programs at the Franklin Institute and Ithaca Sciencenter, K-12 workshops, public events, the project website and the presentations of museum shows nationwide.
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0.951 |
2013 — 2015 |
Das, Jayatri Farah, Martha J (co-PI) [⬀] |
R25Activity Code Description: For support to develop and/or implement a program as it relates to a category in one or more of the areas of education, information, training, technical assistance, coordination, or evaluation. |
Neuroscience in Your World: a Partnership For Neuroscience Education Across The
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neuroscience in Your World: A Partnership for Neuroscience Education Across the K-12 Spectrum. The Franklin Institute Neuroscience in Your World is an innovative collaboration between The Franklin Institute and the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania to engage K-12 students and teachers in learning about the importance of neuroscience in their world. The proposed work will create a tiered set of learning experiences that frame core concepts of neuroscience in the relevant context of students' worldview at different developmental stages. Aligning cognitive goals and social development across the K-12 spectrum, the project will build the framework for a learning progression that, at younger grades, reaches a very broad audience at an introductory level of scientific content and, at higher grades, targets increasingly focused audiences with deeper levels of experience. Program content will focus on topics in brain function, learning, social behavior, and societal impacts of neuroscience, emphasizing personal aspects of health and behavior that influence how we perceive and interact with the world around us. The project will include a combination of field trips to and programs delivered at The Franklin Institute, courses implemented at nearby high schools and a digital toolkit of educational materials and teacher professional development resources that will be distributed online. Summative evaluation will determine the effects of the project components on participating students and teachers from the Philadelphia region. Evaluation methods will include pre-post student surveys, teacher surveys, and on-site observations, using for comparison either a waiting group for field trip evaluation or a simulcast group for on-site course evaluation. The suite of programs developed through this project will create the foundation for a successful and sustainable infrastructure for neuroscience education in Philadelphia and beyond.
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0.913 |