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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.

Papers

Bennett, D., & Dyehouse, M., (2007, December). Bringing STEM Graduate Fellows into Rural Middle Schools: First-Year Results of the NSF-Funded Indiana Interdisciplinary GK-12 Project using a Mixed-Methods Approach to Program Evaluation, Manuscript in preparation.

Deering, A. J., Nail, S., Wee, B. S., & Pruitt, R. E., (2008). Addressing photosynthesis using a plant physiology experiment at the middle school: Perspectives from a visiting scientist., The Hoosier Science Teacher, 34.

Riskowski, J., Todd, C. D., Wee, B., Dark, M., & Harbor, J., (2009). Exploring the Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Water Resources Engineering Module in an Eighth Grade Science Course, Int. J. Engng Ed., Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 181-195.

Dyehouse, M., Bennett, D., Harbor, J., Childress, A., and Dark, M. A. (2009). A comparison of Linear and Systems Model Approaches for Program Evaluation Illustrated using the Indiana Interdisciplinary GK-12, Evaluation and Program Planning, 32, pp. 187-196.