S.C.O.R.E.

Scientific Community Outreach Resources in Education

S.C.O.R.E. is a product of the NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (GK-12). The primary objective of the GK-12 program is to promote scientific outreach from the university into the K-12 education community. GK-12 Fellows promote outreach by creating connections between their research experience at the university and their paraeducator experience

in K-12 classrooms. Fellows developed hands-on science investigations based upon their own research. These investigations allow students to simulate the research of actual scientists. Fellows also created science investigations for

K-12 classrooms that simulate the work of faculty scientists at the university.

These investigations led to the creation of S.C.O.R.E.

The purpose of S.C.O.R.E. is to build connections between the science faculty

at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) and science teachers in the New Hanover County Schools System. Science faculty can participate in S.C.O.R.E. by serving as scientific advisors to the GK-12 program, providing workshops and/or sharing their lab resources with teachers and fellows, developing activities for K-12 classrooms based upon their own research, creating posters that explain their field of scientific research, answering questions submitted to the “Ask A Scientist” link on our GK-12 webpage, or

giving an interview about their journey to become a scientist for

the “Meet A Scientist” link on the webpage.

Fellows encourage university faculty to participate in this outreach program

by helping them to translate their research into “kids' speak”, creating the scientists posters, and developing appropriate hands-on investigations for

the K-12 classroom that are based on the facultys' research. These hands-on investigations explain how narrowly defined research fits into a broader

scientific picture. These investigations are also aligned with the North Carolina standard course of study for science.

If you are interested in meeting some of our S.C.O.R.E. faculty, check out the following links:

Dr. Midori Albert - Forensic Anthropologist

Dr. Brooks Avery - Biogeochemist

Dr. William Cleary - Marine Geologist

Dr. Richard Dillaman - Microscopist

Dr. Jack Hall - Environmental Geologist

Dr. Robert Hancock - Inorganic Chemist

Dr. William Harris - Stratigrapher/Geologist

Dr. Patricia Kelley - Invertebrate Paleontologist

Dr. Steve Kinsey - Physiologist/Biochemist

Dr. Lynn Leonard - Sedimentologist/Coastal Geologist

Dr. Gabriel Lugo - Mathematician

Dr. D. Ann Pabst - Functional Morphology of Marine Mammals

Dr. James Reeves - Physical Chemist

Dr. Karl Ricanek - Computer Scientist

Dr. Robert Roer - Physiologist

Dr. Thomas Shafer - Molecular Biologist

Mr. Roger Shew - Sedimentology & Petroleum Geologist

Dr. Michael Smith - Geologist/ Geochemist

Dr. Carmelo Tomas - Phycologist

Dr. Sridhar Varadarajan - Organic Medicinal Chemist

Drs. Dillaman, Roer & Shafer - Collaboration