Outreach Multiplier: Recruitment and Lesson Dissemination
Outcome/Accomplishment
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program is connecting with hundreds of teachers from Title 1 schools and community colleges to provide lessons, hands-on activities, and summer research opportunities at the Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG), an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered at Arizona State University.
Impact/Benefits
The NSF RET program provides teachers with the opportunity to engage in a research project at the NSF CBBG and to create a lesson plan for their students based on the experience. The program also provides teachers with science lessons created by the NSF CBBG, improving the accessibility of science and information from the Center to the public.
Explanation/Background
Participants in the program engage hands-on in research activities and are also supported by shared lesson plans. They are provided a curricula website with over 86 lessons and materials. The NSF RET program even allows teachers and NSF CBBG mentors to collaborate on academic publications.
The Center is improving its efforts to expand its lesson deliveries and outreach every year. The Center recruited several summer program participants in 2023 for the NSF RET program. The lessons that participants received in the program served as springboards for two new innovative high school programs that opened in Fall 2023.
Location
Tempe, Arizonawebsite
Start Year
Energy and Sustainability
Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure
Lead Institution
Core Partners
Fact Sheet
Outcome/Accomplishment
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program is connecting with hundreds of teachers from Title 1 schools and community colleges to provide lessons, hands-on activities, and summer research opportunities at the Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics (CBBG), an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered at Arizona State University.
Location
Tempe, Arizonawebsite
Start Year
Energy and Sustainability
Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure
Lead Institution
Core Partners
Fact Sheet
Impact/benefits
The NSF RET program provides teachers with the opportunity to engage in a research project at the NSF CBBG and to create a lesson plan for their students based on the experience. The program also provides teachers with science lessons created by the NSF CBBG, improving the accessibility of science and information from the Center to the public.
Explanation/Background
Participants in the program engage hands-on in research activities and are also supported by shared lesson plans. They are provided a curricula website with over 86 lessons and materials. The NSF RET program even allows teachers and NSF CBBG mentors to collaborate on academic publications.
The Center is improving its efforts to expand its lesson deliveries and outreach every year. The Center recruited several summer program participants in 2023 for the NSF RET program. The lessons that participants received in the program served as springboards for two new innovative high school programs that opened in Fall 2023.