INVOLVING STUDENTS IN SCIENCE

RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING AND ORGANIZING HANDS ON SCIENCE EDUCATION WITH EXCITING, UP-TO-DATE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS. EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT AND GUIDE MANUALS FOR RELATED EXPERIMENTS ARE BEING DEVELOPED. RENTAL FOR THE PERIOD THE EXPERIMENTS ARE USED ALLOWS THE SAME EQUIPMENT TO BE USED BY A LARGE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS WHO SHARE THE COST. EACH PACKAGE CONSISTS OF EXPERIMENTS THE STUDENTS DO THEMSELVES AND A MORE ADVANCED DEMONSTRATION. CONSULTANTS GO INTO THE SCHOOLS TO TRAIN THE TEACHERS IN THE USE OF THE EQUIPMENT AND HANDOUTS. THE TEACHERS WORK WITH THE STUDENTS AND A HOT-LINE FOR EMERGENCY QUESTIONS IS BEING PROVIDED. A SET OF SOUND AND LASER EXPERIMENT/DEMONSTRATIONS AND ASSOCIATED GUIDE MATERIALS ARE BEING DEVELOPED. WORKING WITH TEACHERS IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS IS BEING TESTED.