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Models and Materials is a three-year teacher professional development program that brings together teams of local teachers from junior high and high school art and science. The teachers develop integrated curriculum modules that bring visual art concepts to the science classroom and science concepts to the art classroom. The program introduces materials science and but provides a new way to communicate scientific concepts to students.
INQUIRIES ABOUT THIS PROGRAM? PLEASE CONTACT Dotti Pak, (805) 893-5314
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Boat Building Project
Teachers: Sue Squires and Marie Chavis
Cells: Modeling, Form and Function
Teachers: Betsy Villalpando, Beth Corry
Geologic Timeline with Fossils
Teachers: Peggy Lubchenco and Megan Cotich
Greenhouses: Cultivating Student Understanding of Art, Materials and Science
Teachers: Susan Baldwin and Emily Kang
Heart Attack: Design Process and Scientific Method Join Forces to Tackle the Making of a Functional Heart Model
Teachers: Daniel Barnett and Bria Pagliaro
Home Sweet Eco-Home: Sustainability in Building Design and Material Choice
Teachers: Ken Paulson and Debby West
Organelles in Action
Teachers: Shannon Carpenter, Jacqueline Keleman, and Meghan Parsons-Field
Strength, Structure and Joints: Modeling the Skeletal System
Teachers: Alice Laufer and Melanie Pearlman