SEE-LA: Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles

UCLA and NSF GK-12 Program

Program Website

Program Description (taken partially from the program website):

The UCLA Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) GK-12 program is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (NSF GK-12). The NSF GK-12 is designed to partner K-12 teachers and scientists in an effort to improve science education. Unfortunately, the NSF GK-12 program is no longer being funded by the NSF.

The SEE-LA GK-12 program partners UCLA faculty, UCLA science and engineering graduate students (Fellows), middle and high school science teachers from LA Unified and Culver City Unified School Districts, and their students into a program of science and engineering exploration that brings the environment of Los Angeles into the classroom.

I worked with two 8th grade physical science teachers (Sue Robins and Don Guthrie) at Culver City Middle School during the 2008-09 academic year. My role was to be a "science expert" in the classroom two days per week, support the master teachers in the classroom, create lessons based on my research, and to assess learning by students in the class.

Example Lessons:

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