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“Imagine if we taught baseball the way we teach science. Until they were twelve, children would read about baseball technique and occasionally hear inspirational stories of the great baseball players. They would answer quizzes about baseball rules. Conservative coaches would argue that we ought to make children practice fundamental baseball skills, throwing the ball to second base twenty times in a row, followed by tagging first base seventy times. Others would reply that the economic history of the reserve clause proved that there was, in fact, no such thing as “objectively accurate” pitching. Undergraduates might be allowed, under strict supervision, to reproduce famous historic baseball plays. But only in graduate school would they, at last, actually get to play a game. If we taught baseball this way, we might expect about the same degree of success in the Little League World Series that we currently see in science performance.”
A Gopnik (1999). “Small Wonders.” A review of Howard Gardner’s The disciplined mind. The New York Review of Books, Vol. XLVI, No. 8. |
High school students working in the Innes lab at Indiana University
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Plant Science Activity Kits for Grades 4-10
Teacher Training Workshops Summer Lab Experiences for High School Students Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Opportunities Available Through Other Plant Genome Research Projects |
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On the left is our favorite quote about science education. In a nutshell, if you want to get students excited about science, you need to actually let them do science. Toward that end, the Legume Genome Evolution project is engaged in several outreach programs aimed at getting more students, from elementary school through college, actively engaged in performing experiments with plants. Toward that end, the Legume Genome Evolution project is engaged in several outreach programs aimed at getting more students, from elementary school through college, actively engaged in performing experiments with plants. Follow the links on the right for more information on each of these programs. |