NSF: Restructuring Middle School Science around Grand Challenges
This project aims to restructure middle school science education around Grand Challenges (GCs) such as pandemics, climate events, and diminishing biodiversity. These challenges affect people’s lives and can impact the future of the next generations across the globe. Anchoring science education around grand challenges can motivate students learning and provide a meaningful context for science curriculum and assessment. By engaging in these units, middle school science teachers and students will have opportunities to work with real data, engage in argumentation based on evidence, and take part in solutions to the grand challenges the next generation will face head on.
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26 projects
23 active NSF grants
20 active NIH grants
Featured Projects
Faculty across the UNC School of Education are advancing research and innovation that address the most pressing challenges in education, human development, policy, and well-being. The projects highlighted below offer a snapshot of the impactful work our faculty are leading with support from School, University, and external funding sources.
Hume – DOE: Combining the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction and Peer Supports
Marraccini – MQ: Co-Virtual Reality Intervention for Adolescents Hospitalized for Suicide-Related Crises
