A major grant from the US Department of Education is bringing CRDG’s science, learning technology, and evaluation teams together to investigate how instruction in inquiry-based teaching enhances marine science education. Part of CRDG’s Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) program, the…
Hawaii Nature Study Program Updated
The Hawai‘i Nature Study program, originally conceived and developed by Sister Edna Demanche in the 1970s, was always popular with Hawai‘i teachers because, unlike the science textbooks available to them, it provided inquiry-based activities focused on Hawai‘i’s local plants and…
Working to Improve Science Education in the Pacific
The Pacific Education and Research for Leadership in Science (PEARLS) project is a five-year partnership with the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). PEARLS seeks to help middle-school students in Hawai‘i and other Pacific Islands learn more about scientific…
Teaching Marine Science for Informal Educators
Following last year’s development of a course on communicating ocean sciences for educators and science graduate students at the University of Hawai‘i, CRDG’s Kanesa Duncan Seraphin collaborated again with the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) to teach the…
Learning Landscapes for Teaching Science and Sustainability
Something exciting is taking place at the University Laboratory School: worms are eating garbage, fish are feeding plants, butterflies are living in luxury and kids are learning first hand that a sustainable future is possible. Projects throughout the school are…