The goal of this Research Experience for Teachers program is to help build long-term collaborative partnerships between K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers and the university research community by involving the teachers in science and engineering research and helping them translate their research experiences and new knowledge into classroom activities. The intended impacts of the 4-week summer research experience are to use STEM research experiences to augment teacher content knowledge, to provide teachers with new tools to enhance science education via the development of inquiry-based learning activities and two semester graduate courses in inquiry science to create a network of teachers in the Houston community that are actively learning about new technology.This group presentation will highlight lessons developed from this program that range from lessons on nanogold and nanosilver synthesis and and heparin binding characteristics for high school students to lessons that link research on femtosecond lasers to elementary science  .

Nanotechnology for teachers: Integrating cutting edge research into K-12 science classrooms

245th National Meeting (2013)

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