BiomedicineWorks BiomedicineWorks is an innovative 5-year Phase I and II SEPA project that introduces evidence-based medicine (EBM) tools to explore and understand the importance of published clinical trials. Using real physicians in filmed hospital settings with scripted patient encounters, this project will provide high school students and teachers with an understanding of how doctors learn to best care for their patients through the analysis of clinical trials.
BiomedicineWorks will use the structured approach to teaching evidence-based medicine known as the “5 As.” These align with grades 9-12 National Science Education Standards (NSES) and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards for understanding science as inquiry and complement the existing high school science curriculum. Phenomena and Representations for Instruction of Science in Middle Schools (PRISMS) Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) PRISMS is a four year, $850,000 project funded through NSF’s National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program. The project has built an annotated, metatagged collection for the digital library of effective phenomena and representations, aligned with standards, that can be used by middle school science teachers. Maine middle school teachers received training from AAAS/Project 2061 to use an analysis procedure to identify and examine items for the collection. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the partnering organization .
Northern New England Co-Mentoring Network (NNECN), 2001-2005
NNECN is a four year, $2,300,000 project funded through NSF’s Teacher Enhancement Program, that provides professional development and support to Northern New England middle and high school science and mathematics teachers for content-based mentoring and leadership. Partnering organizations include The New Hampshire Coalition for Mathematics, Science, and Technology; Vermont Institutes, West Ed/Learning Innovations, and TERC’s Eisenhower Regional Alliance. Click here for a copy of the NNECN Monograph Principal Investigator/Project Director: Page Keeley Co-PI’s: Dr. Francis Eberle, Douglas Heuser, Dan Hupp, Dr. Doug Harris, Susan Mundry Web Site:www.nnecn.org 
Students and Scientists Together
Accessing Scientific Knowledge (S2TASK) 2002-2006
S2TASK is a 3.5 year, $435,000 project funded by NSF’s Instructional Materials development Program. The project will develop four new instructional units for GLOBE: a middle and high school unit on Atmosphere and a middle and high school unit on Coastal Ecosystems. It will also produce an on-line tool, "Assemble an Inquiry," that will guide educators through the process of developing their own customized, standards-based units using the existing GLOBE materials. Partnering organizations include University of New England and University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. Principal Investigator/Project Director: Henrietta List Co-PI: Dr. Steve Zeeman The GLOBE Program: www.globe.gov Web Site: To be announced Maine NASA Explorer School Collaborative (MNESC) (2005-2007)
The Maine NASA Explorer School Collaborative (MNESC) is designed to help Maine’s first NASA Explorer Schools located in Biddeford, build, strengthen, and sustain its efforts beyond their initial program funding. The MNESC grant is funded by the NASA Explorer School Partnerships for Sustainability and awarded in cooperation with the National Alliance of State Science and Mathematics Coalitions (NASSMC). MNESC’s focus is on building teachers’ content and pedagogical content knowledge, providing technical assistance for the development and implementation of coherent, standards-based, K-8 curricular units in line with the unique opportunities and resources afforded to the NASA Explorer Schools. A key role of the MNESC is to help link the NASA Explorer schools to community, regional and statewide partners and resources, aimed at raising the awareness of the importance of science, technology, and mathematics education in Maine. Click here to learn more about the NASA Explorer School program or Click here to learn about the NES Sustainability program. Principal Investigator/Project Director: Lynn Farrin Maine Governor’s Academy for Science and Mathematics
Education Leadership (2002- 2005)
The Maine Governor’s Academy is a two year leadership program for highly accomplished teacher leaders in Maine. The Governor’s Academy began with science and is now in its second cohort group which includes science and mathematics. Governor’s Academy Fellows go through a rigorous two-year program learning about the link between science and mathematics standards and research, exemplary instructional practice, the theory and practice of professional development, building learning communities, facilitation and communication skills, the change process, using data, and policy development and advocacy. All Fellows complete and implement a plan for impacting mathematics or science at the school, district, or state level. Past Governor’s Academy Fellows are filling major state and national leadership roles including serving on the National Board of Science Education, NAEP Science Assessment Framework Committee, and Distinguished Educator overseeing the revision of the Maine Learning Results. Project Director: Page Keeley
QUEST (2003-2005)
QUEST is an emmy award winning series of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN) that features natural science and scientists in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The MMSA was contracted by the MPBN to develop the classroom lessons and curriculum guide that accompany each televised program. The QUEST lesson plans can be accessed at: http://www.mainepbs.org/quest/classroom.shtml Co-Curriculum Developers: Henrietta List (High School) and Lynn Farrin (Middle School) |
