Fellowships for Teaching Majors and MAT Biology at USC, Columbia.
The goal of the FEST fellowship is to help develop K-12 science teachers by giving recipients hands-on research experience.
Over one academic school year, fellows will work with scientists and graduate students conducting research in environmental microbiology and molecular biology. Fellows devote 5 hours per week for a combination of meetings, research laboratory experience and developing teaching modules to be implemented in the classroom by themselves and other teachers. Details of topics and standards are on the blackboard below.
For more information or an application package contact Dr. Richard A. Long,
Applications for Fall 2012 are due April 30, 2012.
Through experience and information gained during participation, fellows will design a variety of teaching modules addressing South Carolina state science standards, at both the high school and middle school level. Specific standards that could be covered include.
At the high schoool level, biology and earth science standards concerning:.
- Earth’s ocean systems.
- The molecular basis of heredity.
- Evolution and diversity of life.
- Interrelationships among organisms and biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
- The flow of energy within and between living systems.
At the middle school level, potential modules could address standards covering:.
- Relationships among biotic and abiotic factors within aquatic ecosystems.
- Processes and changes in Earth’s oceans. .
Participating fellows will also gain knowledge and experience applicable to scientific inquiry standards, which are designed to provide students at all levels with scientific process skills and an understanding of scientific explanations describing their world. Fellows will be exposed to current technology and techniques used to develop scientific explanations, and share this experience with students through modules developed. .
For more information or an application package contact Dr. Richard A. Long,
This project orginially was an outreach component of a grant supported through the National Science Foundation.
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