Support Science Engagement
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Support experiential science learning by helping to purchase equipment such as sample bottles, thermometers, chemical test kits, and more !
For the past year, I’ve been in Northern Thailand implementing a Swarthmore College Lang Opportunity Scholarship Project called the Phapangwittaya Water Project (PPWW), or Branching Out Through STEM. The project seeks to improve student engagement in science through hands-on learning activities and cross-curricular integration. The students in Phapang have loved testing water at the river nearby, testing physical and chemical characteristics including temperature, pH, transparency, conductivity, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, and bacteria. They have also analyzed data they have collected, made tutorial videos about water testing, built water testing equipment, and learned about other facets of water in our world. This work has integrated real-world analysis, mathematics, video-making and editing, and more into their science curriculum.
At the end of June, we invited 20 teachers from 13 schools in Mae Prik and Thoen, the two closest school districts, and 4 GLOBE Program trainers from Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai for a teacher training to help teachers expand their experiential science curriculum, becoming more engaging for students, while simultaneously allowing teachers to develop a curriculum at the cutting edge of Thailand’s newest education initiative, Thailand 4.0 which focuses on innovation nationwide.
The training was incredibly successful and many participants have already implemented new water testing into their classrooms. In addition to the 50 students engaged at Phapangwittaya, more than 150 more students have already begun learning about water issues in their community. I provided transparency tubes and pH paper for each school at the training to begin testing basic water characteristics. My Lang Opportunity Scholarship can and already has provided funding for some additional testing equipment and test kits, but we can provide so much more with your support!
Please check out the project website!
phapangwittayawater.wixsite.com/waterproject
Thanks for your support!
Rose
---This project is also supported by the Eugene M. Lang Opportunity Scholarship which selects up to six (6) members of Swarthmore College’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars each year. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and extra-curricular achievement, leadership qualities and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. As its central feature, the Program offers each Scholar the opportunity and related funding to conceive, design and carry out an Opportunity Project that creates a needed social resource and/or effects a significant social change or improved condition of a community in the United States or abroad. In addition, it offers each Scholar a diverse succession of undergraduate and graduate financial and other benefits. The Program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.
For the past year, I’ve been in Northern Thailand implementing a Swarthmore College Lang Opportunity Scholarship Project called the Phapangwittaya Water Project (PPWW), or Branching Out Through STEM. The project seeks to improve student engagement in science through hands-on learning activities and cross-curricular integration. The students in Phapang have loved testing water at the river nearby, testing physical and chemical characteristics including temperature, pH, transparency, conductivity, alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, and bacteria. They have also analyzed data they have collected, made tutorial videos about water testing, built water testing equipment, and learned about other facets of water in our world. This work has integrated real-world analysis, mathematics, video-making and editing, and more into their science curriculum.
At the end of June, we invited 20 teachers from 13 schools in Mae Prik and Thoen, the two closest school districts, and 4 GLOBE Program trainers from Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai for a teacher training to help teachers expand their experiential science curriculum, becoming more engaging for students, while simultaneously allowing teachers to develop a curriculum at the cutting edge of Thailand’s newest education initiative, Thailand 4.0 which focuses on innovation nationwide.
The training was incredibly successful and many participants have already implemented new water testing into their classrooms. In addition to the 50 students engaged at Phapangwittaya, more than 150 more students have already begun learning about water issues in their community. I provided transparency tubes and pH paper for each school at the training to begin testing basic water characteristics. My Lang Opportunity Scholarship can and already has provided funding for some additional testing equipment and test kits, but we can provide so much more with your support!
Please check out the project website!
phapangwittayawater.wixsite.com/waterproject
Thanks for your support!
Rose
---This project is also supported by the Eugene M. Lang Opportunity Scholarship which selects up to six (6) members of Swarthmore College’s sophomore class as Lang Scholars each year. Selection criteria include distinguished academic and extra-curricular achievement, leadership qualities and demonstrated commitment to civic and social responsibility. As its central feature, the Program offers each Scholar the opportunity and related funding to conceive, design and carry out an Opportunity Project that creates a needed social resource and/or effects a significant social change or improved condition of a community in the United States or abroad. In addition, it offers each Scholar a diverse succession of undergraduate and graduate financial and other benefits. The Program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38.
Organisator
Rose Ridder
Organisator
Port Townsend, WA
