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For the past four years, UCMP has been working with a group of teachers to develop a series of interactive web-based modules designed to involve middle and high school students in the process of science. Each module focuses on science conceptsthe big ideas that we want students to go away with, and each contains extensive teacher resource and support materials. But Explorations has been much moreit has been a successful experiment into sharing our research with a targeted audience in a new way. We have learned a lot. We gained expertise in web design, flexible navigation, effective use of animation, formatting of text to facilitate learning, and (somewhat amazingly) how to make it all work in the majority of classroom settings. Much of the success of these modules is the result of the team effort involved in their development. The combination of science teachers working directly with the scientific community strengthened the quality of the productboth in pedagogy and in scientific content. Having a talented, creative, and patient web team knowledgeable in the content guaranteed positive results.
Results |
Adventures at Dry Creek: In comparing pre-test to post-test results, scores improved by 2234%. Stories From the Fossil Record: Over 80% of the students articulated the main ideas of the module.
Comments from teachers
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