GK-12 is a program supported by the National Science Foundation's GK-12 Fellowship.
Fellows spend ten hours each week teaching engineering, math, and science at K-12 schools.
Graduate students, undergraduate teaching assistants, and faculty members work together to
design teaching modules that EDUCATE, MOTIVATE, and EXCITE students in 6th through 8th grade.
The School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Washington
University in St. Louis has developed a partnership with Gateway
Middle School, Steger
Sixth Grade Center and the Department
of Education to improve the opportunities for students at
these St. Louis schools. The partnership focuses on capturing
sixth and eighth grade students' interest in mathematics, science,
and engineering. LEAP is part of the NSF's
GK-12
program.
GK12 Fellows (doctoral students),
UGTAs (undergraduate teaching
assistants), K-12 school teachers, and
Washington University
faculty will form 10 teaching teams, each with a specific
area of expertise. Each teaching team will develop a Teaching
Module and, over a period of 7 weeks(4 per year), instruct
K-12 students on using the tools developed.
Our mission is to communicate
our excitement about science, mathematics, and engineering
to K-12 students through hands on classroom experiments and
activities.