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GK-12 in China:
Five GK-12 fellows and five
GK-12 middle school teachers
will spend a week working on
science inquiry with the
Jiangsu Institute of Education
and a local K-12 school. Each
fellow will undertake
collaborative research in a
Chinese university for at
least 2 weeks. Check out
blogs written by a teacher
and a staff member and read
a short synopsis of the trip.

This web site received the
NSF GK-12 Web Site
Award for Promoting and
Disseminating GK-12
at its annual meeting in
Washington, D.C. in
March 2008.

Conference Proceedings

Childress, A., Doyle, J., George, M., Kang, H., Li, J., Studach, L. (2010, March). Boilermaker Special: Purdue GK-12 in China. Presentation for the NSF GK-12 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Kukula, E. P. & Harbor, J. M. (2009, March 8-11). Biometric technology program to promote STEM education for the k-12 environment. VI International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 200-204.

Harbor, J., Bennett, D., Dyehouse, M., & Walls, L. (2008). Ph.D. students meet the realities of "visiting students" in middle schools; learning to teach, teaching to learn. Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

Todd, C. D., & Riskowski, J. (2008). Middle school students' perceptions of the distribution and availability of safe drinking water in the U.S. Presentation for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

Bennett, D. E., & Dyehouse, M. A. (2008, February). The evaluation of the Indiana Interdisciplinary GK-12 project. Presentation for the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers, Inc. (HASTI), Indianapolis, IN.

Harbor, J. M., Walls, L., Burgess, W., Bennett, D. E., Dyehouse, M. A., & Childress, A. L. (2008, February). Enhancing your curriculum through the use of visiting scientists. Panel presentation for the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers, Inc. (HASTI), Indianapolis, IN.

Dyehouse, M. A., & Bennett, D. E. (2008, January). Bringing STEM graduate fellows into rural middle schools: First-year results of the NSF-funded Indiana Interdisciplinary GK-12 project. Presentation for the Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, HI.