On July 16, a special group of high school students was the first to test the 2010-2011 Socrates Fellows' newly created classroom activities and hands-on experiments.
Bees, Biology and Chemistry: Bringing Graduate Level Research to High School Classrooms
June 7, 2010
UCSD Socrates Fellow Meg Eckles teamed up with Jeff Kepper, a 16-year veteran biology teacher at Helix Charter High and with Debbie Byrd, the school’s AP environmental science teacher to teach bee ecology. Eckles is one of nine other Socrates fellows, all doctoral students, enriching the high school science curriculum of various San Diego area schools with cutting edge science from UCSD. The fellowships are funded through a science education grant from the National Science Foundation.
Chancellor Fox on KPBS: Socrates & Science Literacy
On KPBS Radio's These Days program, UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox discusses the Socrates Fellows program and its goal to improve science literacy in area schools.
Scientist in Residence - Focus on Cancer Disparities
The Cancer Disparities Booth connected students from a secondary school and a community college with UCSD & SDSU faculty and science community partners from Celgene, bringing together four educational institutions with a local scientific community member
Scientists Adopt San Diego Middle and High Schools "Scientist in Residence" began in the fall of 2009 by matching a scientist with a class or club at San Diego area schools. Eleven schools were partnered with a scientist or a local science organization from approximately January through March as part of the pilot program “Scientist in Residence,” through the umbrella organization of ScienceBridge.
The Science Leadership Institute is a three-week, academically rigorous summer program for San Diego high school students in the San Diego Unified and Sweetwater Union school districts. It is funded primarily by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is created and facilitated by the Hughes Scholars and ScienceBridge programs at UC San Diego.
The summer of 2010 focuses on environmental topics, and will include an integrated lab and lecture covering topics such as global warming, ocean acidification, water conservation policy, and San Diego native ecology. The leadership and project courses will focus on leadership skills the students can take back to their school to help teach others about a series of microbiology labs developed by ScienceBridge for the high school classroom.
High School Students engaged in fun engineering activities such as building rubber band powered planes, dropping eggs, tours of real engineering research and design laboratories, the "CAVE" - a 3D model of a protein that you can stand inside, and a much much more!
On KPBS Radio's These Days program, UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox discusses the Socrates Fellows program and its goal to improve science literacy in area schools.
Scientists Adopt San Diego Middle and High Schools "Scientist in Residence" began in the fall of 2009 by matching a scientist with a class or club at San Diego area schools. Eleven schools were partnered with a scientist or a local science organization from approximately January through March as part of the pilot program “Scientist in Residence,” through the umbrella organization of ScienceBridge.
High School Students engaged in fun engineering activities such as building rubber band powered planes, dropping eggs, tours of real engineering research and design laboratories, the "CAVE" - a 3D model of a protein that you can stand inside, and a much much more!