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Indiana teachers to investigate crimes, improve science instruction

Purdue News Digest Article

Science teachers throughout Indiana will investigate "The Kiss of Death" and use forensics to develop standards-based integrated science lessons for their students. Thirty science teachers for grades four through nine will participate in a Purdue summer science institute called Standards-based Integration Science Instruction. The hands-on workshop, which will take place July 10-21, is designed to improve teachers' classroom instruction and develop inquiry instruction strategies. <Full Article>

Gerald H. Krockover, a professor of earth and atmospheric science education and Standards-based Integration Science Instruction (SISI) director, said the workshop is an opportunity for teachers to experience hands-on science instruction from a student's point of view and develop lessons using that experience.

Teachers dig for experience with fictitious crime

Purdue Exponent
By Sheryl Israel, Summer Reporter
There has been a crime committed in the Purdue gravel pit and science teachers from around Indiana will be heading up the investigation. Thirty science teachers from around the state are participating in a two-week, hands-on summer workshop at Purdue University through a science institute called Standards-based Integration Science Instruction (SISI). These fourth through ninth grade teachers will use forensics to improve their classroom instruction with the development of inquiry instruction through the fictitious crime named "The Kiss of Death." (Full Article)

Crime-solving teachers

Lafayette Journal & Courier
By MICHAEL HEINZ
mheinz@journalandcourier.com
Playing crime scene investigators, like the ones in abundance on television, 30 Indiana science teachers used forensic knowledge to help them develop standards-based integrated science lessons for their students.
"The Kiss of Death -- A Problem in Forensic Science," a hands-on workshop, is designed to improve teachers' classroom instruction and develop inquiry instruction strategies.
"SISI, which stands for standards-based integrated science instruction, has the teacher go through an inquiry-based science unit, and the object is for them to develop their own unit after they've been through this unit," said Bill Bayley, chemistry outreach coordinator at Purdue University. <Full Article>