Chemistry Abounds: An Educational Outreach Program Designed for Elementary School Audiences

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (12) ◽  
pp. 1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. Tracy ◽  
Chris Collins ◽  
Paul Langevin
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program

Values, Motivations, and Intentions to Engage in Proenvironmental Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carena J. van Riper ◽  
Clinton Lum ◽  
Gerard T. Kyle ◽  
Kenneth E. Wallen ◽  
James Absher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Proenvironmental Behavior ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Leave No Trace ◽  
Public Land Management ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
The U.S

Knowledge of the relationships among psychological constructs such as values and motivations that influence proenvironmental behavior provides public land management agencies with guidance on how to minimize stakeholder impacts on the environment. A rich body of research has demonstrated that values form a tripartite structure underlying environmental concern, encompassing biospheric, egoistic, and altruistic values; however, recent work has suggested hedonic values are also an instrumental basis for environmental concern. Few studies have tested this proposition. We contend that hedonic values are instrumental in explaining the psychological processes that gird individual decisions, particularly in nature-based settings where stakeholder decisions are compelled by leisure pursuits. Our results indicate that place-based motivations, particularly escape from the pressures of everyday life, can help close the prominent value–action gap and explain why outdoor recreationists engage in minimum-impact activities specified in the U.S. Leave No Trace educational outreach program.

Juan Angel Chávez's Winded Rainbow

2017 ◽  
pp. 224-243
Author(s):  
Kendra Paitz ◽  
Judith Briggs ◽  
Kara Lomasney ◽  
Adrielle Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Arts Educators ◽  
Curriculum Creation

This chapter outlines the manner in which the work of Chicago-based artist Juan Angel Chávez was exhibited at a university art gallery and served as the platform for an educational outreach program that investigated issues of immigration, place, language, materiality, and environmental sustainability within a global culture. Working closely with both an Associate Professor of Art Education and the gallery's Senior Curator, two graduate teacher candidates in Art Education generated student-initiated learning experiences based on a model of curriculum creation developed and taught by visual arts educators in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The curator and graduate students implemented a local arts grant that enabled groups from secondary schools and a homeschool program to tour the gallery's exhibition of Chávez's work, participate in workshops in their classrooms, and exhibit their own artwork at the gallery.

The Scanning Electron Microscopy Educators Program - A Unique Educational Outreach Program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1154-1155
Author(s):  
Luann Piazza ◽  
William R. Ragland ◽  
Katie E. G. Thorp ◽  
Marc C. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Air Force Base ◽  
Scanning Electron

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (near Dayton, OH) continues to offer a unique educational outreach program, Scanning Electron Microscopy EDucatorS (SEMEDS; pronounced sem-eds). This ten year old motivational science program provides an opportunity for students and educators to visit the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate's research laboratories, where scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) are used by scientists and engineers working in diverse areas of materials research.As a favorite motivational science program, SEMEDS serves surrounding communities by bringing students and educators on-site to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to operate state-of-the-art SEMs in a real life research laboratory setting. The special features of this program include: exposure to a world-class facility, introductions to the elite researchers who work there, and an opportunity for students to operate the same equipment used by the facility researchers.SEMEDS is an after school program intended for middle school and high school students.

scholarly journals Near-Peer Teaching Outreach Programs to Increase Minority Physician Recruitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. e122-e126
Author(s):  
Wendy Linderman ◽  
Nicholas Apostolopoulos ◽  
Anand Gopal ◽  
John Encandela ◽  
Christopher Teng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
The United States ◽  
Peer Teaching ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Peer Teachers

Problem Health disparities among racial and ethnic groups exist in the United States despite improvements in health status and access to care. These inequalities may be reduced by increasing minority physician recruitment; however, how best to recruit these physicians remains unclear. Approach Near-peer teachers are not professionally trained, but have recently learned material that they themselves teach. Near-peer teaching in minority student outreach programs may be effective in increasing minority physician recruitment. The authors used a near-peer teaching model to promote interest in medicine, specifically ophthalmology, as a potential career path for both volunteer near-peer teachers and minority high school students participating in an educational outreach program. Twenty-one college and graduate-school near-peer teachers of various racial and ethnic backgrounds participated to teach 31 inner-city high school students. The program was evaluated using pre- and posttest surveys assessing students' knowledge about and interest in science, medicine, and ophthalmology; analysis used pairwise t-test comparisons. Qualitative responses and an end-of-training survey also assessed students' and near-peer teachers' satisfaction with the program and perceptions about medicine as a career. Outcomes Students' knowledge about and interest in medicine and ophthalmology increased significantly after participation. Near-peer teachers agreed that teaching in the program was beneficial to their careers and made it more likely that they would enter medicine and ophthalmology. Next Steps The authors will track the near-peer teachers' career paths and, in the next iteration, will increase the number of program days. This intervention may serve as a model for outreach for other specialties beyond ophthalmology.

scholarly journals Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Educational Outreach Program

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (S2) ◽  
pp. 288-289
Author(s):  
J. Tiley ◽  
K. Stultz
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Air Force Base

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, August 4 – August 8, 2013.

Bugscope: A Practical Approach to Providing Remote Microscopy for Science Education Outreach

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton S. Potter ◽  
Bridget Carragher ◽  
Liana Carroll ◽  
Charles Conway ◽  
Benjamin Grosser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
High Magnification ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Education Outreach

AbstractThe Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for kindergarten to grade 12 (K–12) classrooms. The project provides a resource to classrooms so that they may remotely operate a scanning electron microscope to image insects at high magnification. The microscope is remotely controlled in real time from a classroom computer over the Internet using a Web browser. Bugscope provides a state-of-the-art microscope resource for teachers that can be readily integrated into classroom activities. The Bugscope project provides a low-cost, sustainable model for research groups to support K–12 education outreach projects.

scholarly journals Survey of Master Gardener Use of Native Plants in the Southeastern United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 462-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Brzuszek ◽  
Richard L. Harkess ◽  
Lelia Kelly
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Plants ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Plant Materials ◽  
Interest Level ◽  
Cooperative Extension Services

The Master Gardener program is a volunteer horticultural training and an educational outreach program developed and managed by state cooperative extension services. Previous research in the southeastern United States revealed that landscape architects and contractors are increasingly using native plant materials in their projects and this often exceeds regional plant availability. A survey of green industry in the region showed supply is driven by consumer demand and education. To determine if native plant demand is encountered by plant purchasers other than landscape architects, this study evaluates the interest level and market use of native plants by Master Gardeners of six southeastern states. A web-based survey was developed, and Master Gardeners were invited to participate by their state Master Gardener coordinators. The survey included questions on how Master Gardeners use native plants in their home landscape, how they best learn about them, the species they have purchased, and their interest level. A total of 979 Master Gardeners completed the survey. Results revealed that this particular consumer group is enthusiastic about native plants and supports the landscape professionals' claims that marketing for native plants could improve if plants were available at more retail outlets, by having more types (herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees) and species for sale, and by offering greater quantities of plants.

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