What is GK-12?

Colorado Front Range GK12 brings research on human impacts on ecosystems along the Front Range into K-12 classrooms.

GK12 graduate fellows, K-12 teachers, and university science and mathematics faculty collaborate to provide students with authentic science experiences. Teachers and fellows use inquiry-based methods, which are tied to state standards, to guide students through real-world research projects. Students are actively engaged in the scientific process during in-class projects, data collection in the schoolyard, and field trips to local ecological research sites.

Upcoming Events:

October 10, 2009: Geology of Lory State Park Workshop, Lory State Park Visitors Center, 8:30a-4p

November 14 , 2009: Soil Carbon Workshop, Colorado State University, NESB B302, 8:30a-4p

December 2, 2009: Phenology Workshop, Colorado State Univeristy, location TBA, 4:30p-7p

Highlights:

In the May issue of Frontiers in Ecology there was a nice article written by two graduate students on the role of GK-12.

O. Messinger and S. Schuette. 2009. Bridging the gap: spanning the distance between high school and college eudcation. Frontiers In Ecology. 7:221-222.

This project material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DGE0086443. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Principal Invesitigator for the Colorado Front Range GK12 is John Moore and Co-PI's are Dave Swift, Bill Hoyt, Carol Seemueller, and Ray Tschillard. For more information contact Kim Melville-Smith.

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