Michigan Tech Teaching Excellence Program Receives NSF Grant to Build Earth Science Teaching Model
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Some of the most pressing problems facing the world today--climate change, earthquakes and volcanoes, energy and water resources--are in a field of science most Americans haven't studied since their middle-school earth science class. So Michigan Tech is partnering with the Grand Rapids Public Schools and other groups in Michigan, Washington, DC and Colorado to help students learn more about the earth.The new program, called MiTEP (Michigan Teaching Excellence Program), is funded by a $4 million, five-year National Science Foundation Math Science Partnership grant. It brings university geoscience researchers and middle-school teachers together to identify ways to make earth science more exciting and meaningful to middle-school students.
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