In the fall of 2002, the Model Science Lab Project expanded to train high school teachers at the new Lee High School lab in Houston I.S.D. The lab ‘s focus is on Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC) and Biology. Teachers at the lab explore alternative methods of conveying science concepts that are more effective than the lecture and directed activity approach that is commonly used in high school science classes. Resident Teachers are selected from attendees of a semester-long course at the Rice University Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology. In this class, teachers review basic science concepts that are utilized by Rice University researchers to explain their projects and future implications of nanotechnology. Teachers in the class have the opportunity to apply for summer internships in nano research labs at Rice University.
Click here to view a demonstration workshop presented by the Resident Teachers of the pH Model Science Lab: "Pipettes to Go: A Chemistry Make and Take"
| Anne Douglas has been a teacher since 1993, teaching elementary, middle and high school science. She spent three years as an elementary science coach with the opening of Rodriguez Elementary, training the school’s staff in science and gifted and talented education while developing a school-wide set of science-based interdisciplinary units. She is a member of the Teacher to Teacher Training Corps for the US Department of Education, in which she presents workshops for teachers around the nation in science curriculum and instruction. A resident of the Middle School Rice Model Lab in 1997-98, Anne is currently the Associate Director of the Rice Model Science pH Lab at Lee High School. |
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