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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.

2008 GK-12 China Trip

Participants in the NSF-funded Indiana Interdisciplinary GK-12 trip to China spent a week visiting with science faculty working in K-12 teacher education at the Jiangsu Institute of Education (JIE) in Nanjing. This partnership with JIE partially results from an Asian Initiative grant through International Programs. The group also taught science to rural middle school students using lesson plans they developed originally for Indiana schools.

The former doctoral fellows then spent two weeks at other Chinese universities, where they collaborated with Chinese faculty on research related directly to their graduate studies. We are pleased to report that the grant funded four former participants and a current Purdue faculty member:

Jillian Detwiler, doctoral candidate, Department of Biological Sciences
Jianming Li, doctoral candidate, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Jody Riskowski, assistant professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Andrea Blocher, science teacher, Lafayette Tecumseh Junior High School
Lynn Bryan, professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Department of Physics