Name: Place-based STEM Education in Alaska: Examples from REACH Up (Raising Education Achievement through Cultural Heritage)
Start: 2017-09-29T13:30:00-0800
End: 2017-09-29T15:00:00-0800

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Place-based STEM Education in Alaska: Examples from REACH Up (Raising Education Achievement through Cultural Heritage)

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Participants will work with free program resources available through the UAF K-12 Outreach office’s REACH Up program. The REACH Up curriculum features place-based and culturally relevant STEM lessons for Alaskan students in grades 6th-12th.

The REACH Up curriculum highlights the Bering Strait region, with climate change themes of high interest to citizens throughout the Arctic and Subarctic. During the session we will highlight classroom lessons on current vegetation research, including the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities that involve documenting and analyzing shrub expansion onto the tundra ecosystem. These activities were developed with contributions from local scientists Dr. Ken Tape, UAF, and Dr. Gerald Frost, ABR, Inc.

Speakers

Strand Focus Inquiry/Exploration/Investigation

2017 Alaska Cross Content Conference

Yuri Bult-Ito

Dr. Gerald (JJ) Frost

Sally Kieper

Sam Norlin

Dr. Ken Tape

Attendees (6)