| Title |
Description |
Funding
Source |
Partner
Institutions |
Director
Name |
| Acadamies Creating Teacher Scientists (ACTS) |
Four week summer professional development program for middle school (5th-8th grades) teachers. Program focuses on content development in the physical sciences and includes a research component. The overriding theme of the ACTS program at Ames Laboratory is the physical environment and how knowledge of physical and earth sciences can influence its positive evolution. Teachers commit to attending the program for three consecutive years.
Project Status: Current |
Department of Energy |
|
Adah Leshem-Ackerman
Clinician
Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University
515.294.8453
|
| Partnership for Research and Education in Plants (PREP) |
The Partnership for Research and Education in Plants (PREP)
provides genuine research experiences to high school
students and teachers while helping scientists to discover
the function of previously uncharacterized plant genes. In
Iowa there are currently five high schools participating in
the project. Students grow wild and mutant seeds of the
Arabidopsis plant under different stress environments,
document the growth and phenotypic differences between the
plants, then share this information with scientists at ISU
and Virginia Tech.
Project Status: Current |
SEPA & NIH |
Virginia Polytechnic and State Institute |
Adah Leshem-Ackerman
Clinician
Iowa State University
515-.294.8453
|
| Partnerships for Science Education |
Research experience for gifted high school students who show
interest in furthering their education in a STEM field.
This is a one semester (fall/spring) after school program
for Story and Boone county students and operates in
partnership with the students' high schools. Students are
placed in a STEM research lab under the mentorship of and
ISU faculty member. Students receive high school credit for
participation and are expected to present a scientific
poster reflecting their research project.
Project Status: Current |
No funding required |
|
Adah Leshem-Ackerman
Clinician
Iowa State University
515-.294.8453
|
| Research Experiences for Teachers |
A seven week summer internship for 7th-12th grade life science teachers. Provides teachers with a background and first-hand experience in the design, methods, and analysis of research associated with molecular biotechnology and genomics. Introduces teachers to the value of scientific inquiry in the context of molecular biology, biotechnology and genomics. This is a research focused program with teachers conducting their own projects under the mentorship of ISU faculty. Attention is given to the transfer of this experience to classroom curricula.
Project Status: Current |
National Science Foundation |
|
Adah Leshem-Ackerman
Clinician
Iowa State University
515-.294.8453
|
