Lab Manager – Audrey Breen
“A team of researchers at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education – led by Jennifer Maeng, research assistant professor in curriculum, instruction and special education – will partner with Albemarle County Public Schools this summer to launch a program in which elementary school teachers develop science lesson plans that also incorporate reading and other literacy strategies. The “problem-based learning structure” facilitates student understanding through solving real-world, open-ended problems in ways that scientists do, while drawing from other content areas such as reading and mathematics…“Though instruction time is decreasing for science education, there are opportunities to increase science instruction by embedding it within in literacy lessons,” Maeng said.”(more)