Classroom Collaborations: K-12 Pilot Projects

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Thanks to a grant by Republic Services, high school teachers are collaborating to design, implement, and share new concepts for teaching hands-on Physics and Engineering. “Open Source Science” is in it’s first full year of implementation with almost 25 teachers from 20 different schools across LA. The project was born out of an informal group of passionate physics teachers, (Craig Sipes, Michael Lusk, Eric Guarin and LAUSD’s District level Science Specialist Ayham Dahi) discovering T4T’s repurposed materials.

Spring 2012 was a collaborative phase of designing and field testing hands-on NGSS aligned curriculum, culminating in a larger partnership with UCLA Center X Science Project and LAUSD to hold the first of 4 science symposiums at the Natural History Museum. The next 2 professional development workshops were held at T4T, and by request have grown to include teachers outside LAUSD.

All teachers participating in the collaboration to date have received a Resource Cart, stocked with T4T materials selected to explore our Engineering and Physics Projects.