Last Modified: 01/20/07

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GK 12

GK12 is a National Science Foundation funded project getting graduate fellows in K- 12 classrooms. The idea is to use the graduate students as liaisons between the primary science taking place in the country’s universities and the K-12 students. The program stems from the idea that if K-12 students see science as an active and hands-on approach – rather than a compendium of facts stored in textbooks, they will become more interested in science – increasing the potential for future scientists and scientific literacy in the general population.

Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado jointly hold a GK12 grant entitled Human Impacts along the Colorado Front Range. The program funds the education of a number of graduate and undergraduate students from both institutions to work in the Poudre Valley and Weld County school district. Sanjay Advani recently finished two years of working with Northridge High School in Greeley, Colorado. Working with both the biology and chemistry classes, Advani and the Northridge teachers developed a curriculum investigating aspects of water quality in the Cache- La Poudre River watershed. Jill Oropeza has just joined the GK12 project and will be developing her particular project over time.