TY - GEN
T1 - Incorporating authentic scientific research and the nature of science into the high school classroom
AU - Strunk, A.
AU - Gamez Warble, K.
AU - Nemanich, Robert
AU - Culbertson, Robert
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - The true nature of scientific research, often neglected in science education and pre-service teacher training, is critical to student conceptual understanding of how science works. Many education students leave school with the naive view that science is a collection of facts rather than a dynamic process of inquiring into nature. The ASU Math and Science Teaching Fellows (MSTF) program gives in-service math and science teachers an opportunity to experience scientific research by immersion in active research groups in state-of-the-art laboratories. With a better understanding of what science looks like in actual research laboratories, these teachers implement direct instruction in the Nature of Science in their classrooms. Research that was conducted by teachers in a nanoscience laboratory and how they plan to implement their experiences into their high school classes will be presented.
AB - The true nature of scientific research, often neglected in science education and pre-service teacher training, is critical to student conceptual understanding of how science works. Many education students leave school with the naive view that science is a collection of facts rather than a dynamic process of inquiring into nature. The ASU Math and Science Teaching Fellows (MSTF) program gives in-service math and science teachers an opportunity to experience scientific research by immersion in active research groups in state-of-the-art laboratories. With a better understanding of what science looks like in actual research laboratories, these teachers implement direct instruction in the Nature of Science in their classrooms. Research that was conducted by teachers in a nanoscience laboratory and how they plan to implement their experiences into their high school classes will be presented.
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U2 - 10.1557/opl.2011.1174
DO - 10.1557/opl.2011.1174
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860119502
SN - 9781618395641
T3 - Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - Forum on Materials Education and Evaluation - K-12, Undergraduate, Graduate and Informal
T2 - 2011 MRS Spring Meeting
Y2 - 25 April 2011 through 29 April 2011
ER -