Sentences with phrase «science literacy initiative»

And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle - school students for high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.

Before the conference, Jo Ellen Roseman, director of AAAS's Project 2061 science literacy initiative, gave a 2 - hour briefing on the program's extensive science learning resources to about 40 administrators and staff at Rwanda's National Curriculum Development Centre.

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

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Project 2061, AAAS's long - term science literacy education initiative, launched a new middle school curriculum unit 12 February at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Memorizing the expression «atoms are not created or destroyed» and balancing chemical equations — a common approach to teaching chemical reactions — has proved to be insufficient for helping students explain how living things gain mass, said Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a long - term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy and eduScience to improve science literacy and eduscience literacy and education.

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students...

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students the science of energy.

«A strong foundation of knowledge about energy is essential,» said Cari F. Herrmann Abell, senior research associate for Project 2061, the long - term AAAS initiative to improve the science literacy of all Americans.

In the midst of this early literacy crisis, faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) are launching Reach Every Reader, a five - year initiative that will combine both institutions» expertise in cognitive science, reading, learning technologies, and evaluation to help all children thrive and succeed as readers — across schools, homes, and communities.

On September 8th we celebrate International Literacy Day, as a result of an 1965 initiative of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) organization, designed to highlight how crucial literacy was to people and their communities, and to focus attention on expanding the opportunities for all people to learn Literacy Day, as a result of an 1965 initiative of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) organization, designed to highlight how crucial literacy was to people and their communities, and to focus attention on expanding the opportunities for all people to learn literacy was to people and their communities, and to focus attention on expanding the opportunities for all people to learn to read.

National activities include, among other programs, teacher and principal programs, literacy initiatives, civics and history programs (a new initiative under the ESSA), and a new program known as the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Master Teacher Corps.

By removing science from accountability measures and promoting a «STEM» initiative that focuses on technology, Pennsylvania's students are likely to see decreased resources devoted to the development of scientific literacy and the practices of science and engineering.

Scott is a founding member of many school - wide initiatives including the Literacy Center development team, the Next Generation of Science Standards leadership team, and the Inquiry Lesson / Design Challenge team.

The Texas Education Agency — in conjunction with the TLI Leadership Team, which includes 20 regional education service centers, the Institute for Public School Initiatives at The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts at The University of Texas at Austin — collaborate with Literacy Lines to meet the goals of the TLI grant.

The issue was explored earlier this month at the UKSG conference in Glasgow, when Seeta Peña Gangadharan from the London School of Economics and Political Science shared insight into the Data Privacy Project, a privacy literacy initiative led by the Brooklyn Public Library.