TGLL is Recruiting Teachers for the 2012-13 Academic Year!
If you teach 6th-12th grade in the Salt Lake City School District and are interested in partnering with an enthusiastic graduate student scientist to work with you and your students, please fill out the Teacher Application and return to
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by May 25, 2012.
TGLL (Think Globally, Learn Locally) is a NSF-sponsored science education program based at the University of Utah. TGLL partners graduate students in the biological, geological and atmospheric sciences with middle and high school teachers in the Salt Lake City School District to enhance and promote inquiry-based science teaching and learning.
TGLL aims to promote learning around five environmental themes: habitat alteration, pollution and disturbance, invasive species, climate change, and infectious disease. Graduate students work with teachers to design authentic science activities that apply science core concepts to larger scientific issues.
The ultimate goals of TGLL are to provide graduate students with opportunities to develop their scientific communication skills, provide teachers with content knowledge, resources and classroom support, and enhance the experience of students such that science becomes an interesting and accessible tool for acquiring knowledge.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendtions expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
In March 2011, TGLL hosted the first ever Global Climate Change and Carbon Cycle Forum. TGLL Fellow Mark Blonquist worked with teacher Niki Hack's 7th grade students at the Salt Lake Center for Science Education to develop posters, slide shows, essays, poems, board games and hands-on activities on global change and the carbon cycle.
