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About the Project	NC State’s College of Education and The Science House, an innovative K-12 outreach program, have partnered with the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation, which has invested $1 million over three years to support the early work of The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation’s Science and Mathematics Collaboratory. The Friday Institute is, a dynamic research and outreach community, that brings together students and teachers, education professionals and research scientists, community leaders and business professionals to identify and find solutions to pressing educational challenges. From its location on NC State University's Centennial Campus, the Institute will generate ideas not yet imagined and create new and vital answers that will have profound effects on the education of future generations in North Carolina and beyond.
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Early work of the Collaboratory will advance emerging, broad impact areas such as the area of scientific visualization that explores visual-spatial thinking of students. Scientific visualization uses physical models, pictorial representations, and 2-D and 3-D computer imaging to help students better understand complex concepts of the natural world, from the structure of DNA to the structure of the universe. Recent work by NC State faculty in the sciences, education, and graphics communication suggests that infusing visual-spatial tools into science instruction is a potential means of expanding scientific understanding to broader and more diverse student populations, with a special focus on women. Preliminary results from recent NSF-funded projects are so encouraging that we plan to make scientific visualization an initial focus of the Science and Mathematics Collaboratory. We are developing a dynamic, sustainable research, development, and outreach process that merges the latest and best science with the most effective science pedagogy. The proposed iterative process includes four phases: visualization research, materials prototyping, instructional response research, and education implementation. By partnering with The Science House, the Mathematics and Science Collaboratory will integrate research-based products into science classrooms across the state through professional development programs for teachers. top

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