BiomedicineWorks
This project is funded by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)
to the Foundation for Blood Research (FBR). MMSA is a subcontractor to the project.
2006-2010
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.
Goals:
- engage student interest in clinical trials through filmed hospital patient encounters
- explore real clinical trials using mathematics (EBM tools) and higher-level critical thinking
- promote understanding of the importance of clinical trials research in medical practice
- field-test an inquiry-based science curriculum for national dissemination
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.
MMSA Program Contact:
Joyce Tugel msouthworth@mmsa.org
Phenomena and Representations for Instruction of Science in Middle Schools (PRISMS)
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
2005-2009
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 .
MMSA Program Contact:
Principal Investigator Page Keeley pkeeley@mmsa.org
Project Director Joyce Tugel jtugel@mmsa.org
www.prisms.mmsa.org
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