Empowering Educators to Engage School-Wide Transitions to Local Phenomena-Based Science.
Sensemaking about Place (SaP) provides professional development support and study to rural elementary schools’ administrators and teachers, so they can incorporate local, real-life earth sciences into their existing curriculums.
The project brings together a cohort of elementary teachers and administrators and researchers from Montana, Maine, and Hawaii who will support one another while comparing and contrasting challenges and opportunities in rural education focused on place-based phenomena. Teachers will learn to adapt national materials to local scientific phenomena to produce more place-based and locally relevant materials.
Over three years, two teachers and one administrator at five rural Maine elementary schools will engage in high-quality science instructional units (10 teachers and 5 administrators in total). Teachers will work toward developing their own customized unit based on local scientific phenomena.
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Science Education Researcher
STEM Education Specialist
Research Associate
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This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, grant #2405435. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.