Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms for Early Lessons in Life
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Ms. Robin Roche, Dr. Henry Hagedorn
Phone: (520) 621-2958 Fax (520) 791-7744
rkroche@ag.arizona.edu
hagedorn@ag.arizona.edu
"Using Live Insects in Elementary Classrooms for Early Lessons in Life", funded by the National Institutes of Health, Science Education Partnership Award is a program that introduces health topics to children in kindergarten through third grade via integrated lessons with science, math, and language arts activities using live insects. The program was produced at The University of Arizona's Center for Insect Science located in Tucson, Arizona. Teams of teachers and scientists from Arizona and Massachusetts along with staff from the Center for Insect Science collaborated to create twenty lessons. In the fall of 1992, 177 teachers in Arizona, Massachusetts, Missouri and Mississippi pilot tested the lessons in their classrooms. The final publication reflects the pilot teacher's comments and pilot testing experiences.
Dissemination of the program is primarily through training workshops called Leadership Institutes. These Institutes present background information to teachers about arthropods, hands-on interactions with live arthropods and firsthand experience with activities from the lessons. To date, over 625 teachers from 21 states and the District of Columbia have participated in Leadership Institutes.
Through funding from an Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Award, all 20 lessons have been translated into Spanish. This includes an extensive bibliography of children's literature in Spanish.
For additional information contact:
Dr. Henry Hagedorn, Principal Investigator
Dept. of Entomology
410 Forbes Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85572
520-621-5358
FAX: 520-621150/4486
hagedorn@ag.arizona.edu
or
Ms.Robin Roche, Program Coordinator
Center for Insect Science Education Outreach
800 E. University Blvd., Suite 300
Tucson, AZ 85721
520-621-8555
FAX 520-791-7744
rkroche@ag.arizona.edu