Project life-(laboratory investigations and field experiences) an NSF/Louisana systemic initiatives project
- Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston, LA (United States)
Project LIFE, an in-service program for middle grade teachers of life sciences, focuses on ecology, environmental science, and organismal biology. Project components include an intensive summer course, leadership training, and academic year follow-up through workshops and classroom visits. Teachers are taught by an experienced staff including university scientists, a science educator, and an outstanding middle grades teacher who model a hands-on, learning-cycle style of teaching. Teachers learn science content, process skills, and reform teaching methodology. The course integrates math with science and emphasizes the relationship of science content to the real world. Teachers experience alternative types of assessment including performance-based tasks, journals, concept maps, and questions that promote critical thinking. Participants keep an on-going record of their accomplishments in a Project LIFE portfolio; and receive science supply money from the project and their local system to purchase supplies for classrooms. Project LIFE has trained teachers in Louisiana and Texas and is expanding to other states.
- Research Organization:
- Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 111134
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9404192--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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