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Peabody fellowships help New Haven teachers strengthen science curriculum

Elementary school teachers from New Haven are spending some time on the beach this summer as part of a fellowship program sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

The program is part of the Peabody's four-year educational initiative to integrate the theme of biodiversity in the New Haven Public Schools' broader project to increase science literacy among city students.

The Peabody Fellows are attending a summer institute designed to help them develop curriculum units on biodiversity that will be integrated into the new grade-by-grade science standards to be implemented in the New Haven Public Schools during the 1998-99 academic year.

Participants are getting an introduction to biodiversity, as well as inquiry-based and hands-on teaching techniques. They will also examine specimens from the Peabody's collections, tour the museum's research station in Guilford, and collect and identify invertebrates along the Connecticut shoreline. Over the next 12 months, the teachers, who will receive a stipend, will work with museum curators, participate in workshops and write a curriculum with biodiversity as its theme.

The teachers in the program hail from Clinton Avenue School, Helene Grant School, Isadore Wexler School and Timothy Dwight School. They are: Margaret Andrews, Andrea Barros, Marc Blosveren, Shannon DeGrand, Ralph Esposito, James D. Govang, Lois Kaliszewski, Debra Liburd, Karen Miranda, Pedro Mendia, Nancy Skolozdra, Shanette Walley and Eleanor Willis.

The four-year project to strengthen science literacy in the New Haven Public Schools is funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition to the Peabody Museum, the other New Haven institutions collaborating on the project include L.E.A.P. (Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership), the Eli Whitney Museum, the Yale Office of New Haven Affairs and the Yale Child Study Center.


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