The National Science Foundation recently awarded seven grants totaling approximately $5 million for the purpose of "transforming STEM learning." The awards include approximately $500k to the American Association for the Advancement of Science to use "green" school buildings to transform middle school science and math curriculum, nearly $500k to the Education Development Center for its iPuzzle project, $500k to Loyola University of Chicago for a blended instructional model involving family and community in sustainable resource projects, $500k to the NY Hall of Science for the creation and testing of two innovative science games, $2m to the Research Triangle Institute to study the re-design of ten SC high schools to determine the effect of environment on learning, and $1m to TERC, Inc. for two projects including a digital gaming environment known as Arcadia and for an integrated science and art learning approach focusing on water use. A second round of grants will be released in 2012. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2011/11/nsf_aims_to_transform_stem_lea.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
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