This project will significantly expand the Science in the Classroom (SitC) initiative into tools for learning. The annotated papers and related resources that are produced will allow students to engage with primary data sets and gain a deep understanding of how scientists design experiments, gather and analyze data, and present their conclusions. This approach enables students to assume the persona of a scientist; it guides them through the scientific process of posing questions, designing experiments to pursue those questions, analyzing the data that returns from the experiments, and working toward new conclusions in response to the analysis. The students also come to understand, first-hand, the process of scientific communication, through which scientists explain their progression from questions to experiments to data to conclusions, while also generating the next set of intriguing questions.
- Focus: Undergraduate students
- Funder: National Science Foundation
- Team: Melissa McCartney (Co-Principal Investigator)
- Award number: 1525596
- Amount: $1,274,487.00
- Contact: Melissa McCartney (mmccartn@fiu.edu), Department of Biological Sciences
- Website: Science in the Classroom (SitC) initiative