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Holiday Lectures on Science (December 9-10, 1996). Precollege Science Education Initiatives in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area DOCUMENT RESUME ED 407 233 SE 059 969 TITLE Community Partnerships in Science Education: Holiday Lectures on Science (December 9-10, 1996). Precollege Science Education Initiatives in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area. INSTITUTION Howard Hughes Medical Inst., Chevy Chase, MD. Office of Grants and Special Programs. PUB DATE Jan 97 NOTE 116p. AVAILABLE FROM Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Office of Grants and Special Programs, 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) Speeches/Meeting Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Biology; Biotechnology; Educational Change; Educational Innovation; *Field Trips; Grants; Intermediate Grades; Outdoor Education; *Partnerships in Education; Program Proposals; Science Curriculum; *Science Instruction; *Science Programs; Secondary Education IDENTIFIERS District of Columbia; Maryland ABSTRACT This document reports on a science education reform program sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The program is an attempt to overhaul the reform efforts of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, and participation in the project has been underway since 1994. Funds from the institute support teacher training in the use and evaluation of curricular materials, a summer science camp for middle school girls, an outdoor environmental education program for students and teachers, a week-long summer program for biology teachers at the outdoor education site on the Chesapeake Bay, the Holiday Lectures on Science Series, and programs that provide state-of-the-art training in molecular biology and chemistry. Program details are provided on the Holiday Lectures on Science; precollege science education grants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area; regional awards in the national grants program in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas; the 1995-1996 participants in institute-funded projects in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore areas; and background information about the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (DDR) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** e I I O '1 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL iHA BEEN G ANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) I I I 0 U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Off ice of Educalional Research and Improvemeni a 1111 UCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) is document has been reproduced as rewed from the person or organization originating it Minor changes have been made to I 0 I improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy II a la 0 e I I A I I I 4 4 I . I fa 1 a I 1 0 4 4 I1 .\ \C) ',LD 4 I4 I e II' . I ..; BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Community Partnerships in Science Education Holiday Lectures on Science December 9-10, 1996 Precollege Science Education Initiatives in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Office of Grants and Special Programs 3 ©1996 by the Office of Grants and Special Programs, Howard Hughes Medical. Institute. All rights reserved. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Susan Anderson, Bill Carrigan, Miriam Davis, Kathi Hanna, Frank Portugal, and Robert Taylor to this report. Photographs at the Institute and the Thomas Edison High School of Technologywere taken by William K. Geiger. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation photograph was taken by David W. Harp. Contents Howard Hughes Medical Institute Programsv Prefacevii Introduction: New Roads to Science Learning ix Holiday Lectures on Science Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science 1 Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Precollege Science Education Grants Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Fellowship Program at the National Institutes of Health 19 Montgomery County Public Schools Student and Teacher Intern Program at the National Institutes of Health 42 Montgomery County Public Schools Elementary Science Education 60 Montgomery County Public Schools and Chesapeake Bay Foundation Collaboration in Environmental Science Education63 Montgomery County Public Schools and Audubon Naturalist Society Collaboration in Environmental Science Education 69 Edison Career Center Middle School Biotechnology Summer Focus Program 70 Contacts for Howard Hughes Medical Institute Precollege Science Education Initiatives in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area 73 Regional Awards in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore Areas Under the National Grants Program Precollege Science Education 77 Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education80 Graduate Science Education 84 Participants Students89 Teachers 92 Preceptors 94 Schools 95 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Trustees 99 Officers 100 Principal Staff Members 101 Office of Grants and Special Programs 102 Contents iii Tables 1 Summary of Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Grantsxii 2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science, 1993-1995 2 3 Student and Teacher Advisers for Holiday Lectures Resource Guide 13 4 Washington Metropolitan Area High School Students Attending the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Holiday Lectures on Science, December 18 and 19,1995 14 5 Institutes Offering Student Research in HHMI's Summer Research Fellowship Program and the Student and Teacher Intern Program at the National Institutes of Health 18 6 Instrumentation II: Chemistry with Calculator-Based Laboratory45 7 Summer Workshop in Molecular BiologyJune 20July 2,1996 48 8 Montgomery County Public Schools Student and Teacher Intern Program at the National Institutes of Health, Class of 199658 9 Montgomery County Public Schools Student and Teacher Intern Program at the National Institutes of Health, Class of 1997 59 10 Examples of Elementary Science Units Distributed to Montgomery County Public Schools, by Grade Level 62 11 Urban Field Programs of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation 66 12 Field Programs of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Saltmarsh Education Centers 67 13 We All Live Downstream: Montgomery County Public School Teacher Participants, July 1996 68 14 Fun with DNA, 1996 Class Roster 72 15 Awards to Regional Institutions Under the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Precollege Science Education Program for Science Museums, 1992-1993 78 16 Awards to Regional Institutions Under the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Precollege Science Education Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions, 1992-1996 79 17 Awards to Regional Institutions Under the Institute's Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program, 1992-1996 81 18 Awards to Regional Institutions for Fellows Supported Under the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Graduate Science Education Program, 1995-199685 19 Students Participating in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Precollege Science Education Initiatives of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1995-199689 20 Teachers Participating in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Precollege Science Education Initiatives of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1995-1996 92 21 Preceptors Participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Student and Teacher Intern Program (1995-1996) and the Summer Research Fellowship Program (1996) at the National Institutes of Health 94 22 Schools Participating in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Precollege Science Education Initiatives, 1995-1996 95 ivCommunity Partnerships in Science Education Howard Hughes Medical Institute Programs The Howard Hughes Medical international genome mapping pro- Institute was founded in 1953 by avi- gram, provides research training to ator-industrialist Howard R Hughes. medical students through the Its charter, in part, reads: Research Scholars Program (con- The primary purpose and objective ducted jointly with the National of the Howard Hughes Medical Insti- Institutes of Health), and organizes tute shall be the promotion of human scientific conferences, workshops, knowledge within the field of the basic and program reviews. sciences (principally the field of med- ical research and medical education) and the effective application thereof for the benefit of mankind. Grants and Special Programs To complement its research pro- gram, the Institute has a grants pro- gram dedicated to strengthening Biomedical Research education in the biological and relat- Program ed sciences. Administered by the The Howard Hughes Medical Insti-Office of Grants and Special Pro- tute is a nonprofit medical research grams, the Institute grants are organization dedicated to basic bio-designed to enhance science educa- medical research and education. Itstion at the graduate, undergraduate, principal objectives are the advance- and precollege levels; to increase ment of fundamental knowledge inpublic understanding and apprecia- biomedical science and the applica-tion of science; and to support tion of new scientific knowledge tofundamental biomedical research the alleviation of disease and theabroad and research resources in promotion of health. U.S. medical schools. In addition, a Through its program of directcomprehensive assessment effort is conduct of medical research in con- under way. The grants reach a wide junction with hospitals, it employs range of institutions involved in for- over 270 independent investigators mal and informal science education, at its laboratories in more than 60 including colleges
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