Collaboration Physics

Journal Article | January 2005

Elementary school teachers and university researchers combine their expertise to help students construct an understanding of force—and discover something of the nature of science in the process. Second- and third-grade…

Collaborating for Communication

Journal Article | June 2012

An engineering challenge requires students to work together while providing an opportunity for assessing their learning styles.

Collaboration at the Nanoscale

Journal Article | March 2009

The Maine ScienceCorps is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Teaching Fellows in K–12 Education (GK–12 ) program. Through this program, the University of Southern Maine’s (USM)…

Teacher's Toolkit: Strategies for co-teaching and teacher collaborations

Journal Article | August 2019

How-to strategies and classroom management

Design Elements From a Rural, Multi-Organization Collaborative

Journal Article | December 2019

On a Saturday afternoon last May in Hamilton, Montana, 150 people gathered in a college gymnasium for the Bitterroot Maker Fair. At tables around the room, student educators from the University of Montana (UM) spectrUM…

Commentary: Community Collaborations

Journal Article | March 2007

The National Science Education Standards offer the first assurance that community collaborations can be meaningful as they describe science instruction that educates students to “engage intelligently in public discourse…

Collaborative Distance Learning

Journal Article | June 2010

How can you connect teachers in two different school districts, separated by more than 50 miles, on a weekly basis to provide ongoing professional development (PD)? The answer: videoconferencing. In this article, the…

Collaborating with WISE Scientists

Journal Article | August 2003

Through an interactive partnership, fifth-grade students collected data on plants and joined an active scientific community of working scientists. This Web-based Integrated Science Environment (WISE) project involved…

Modeling Collaboration for Learning

Journal Article | January 2017

The Science Museum of Minnesota’s offers a well-developed model for implementing the Engineering is Elementary curriculum in Minnesota school districts for grades K–5, as well as a program for preservice teachers and…

Collaboration with Community Partners

Journal Article | March 2006

Collaborations with community partners make problem-based learning experiences more authentic and exciting for students while ensuring that the experience is consistent with the community’s needs and interests. The…