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Fourteen middle and high school teachers from across Michigan are on the Michigan Tech campus this week as part of the five-day “Engaging Students in Authentic Science Research Teacher Institute,”.
Michigan Tech’s Director of the Center for Science & Environmental Outreach Joan Chadde says the institute is designed to guide teachers in gaining the skills to engage their students in designing and conducting original research, rather than merely conducting “cookbook experiments.”
Teachers will learn research design methods and procedures and participate in a variety of research field and lab studies led by Michigan Tech faculty and graduate students.
Some of the sessions include: physics of atmospheric science, chromatography, materials science, transportation surveys, insect inventories, aquatic invasive species and visiting local sites to see the types of research local students are conducting.
The institute is co-led Chadde along with Lauri Davis, Houghton High School science teacher and science department chair.
The institute runs through Friday and is partially funded by a National Science Foundation grant.
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