UCSF scientists partner with public schools

05-11-2010

By Erin Allday/San Francisco Chronicle

Eleven-year-old Joseph Bohan sat at the back of a classroom sucking the air out of a plastic container and watching a balloon inside inflate by some invisible force, when an observer suggested it looks like magic. He narrowed his eyes and looked disgusted. "Not magic," Joseph said with disdain. "It's air pressure." There was an unsaid "idiot" on the end of that sentence, for sure. That was last Friday afternoon, and Joseph and his fourth- and fifth-grade peers at Alvarado Elementary School were conducting experiments. They're part of an unusual partnership between UCSF and San Francisco public schools, in which scientists pair with classroom teachers to help children learn not just hard sciences, but the special skills needed to conduct laboratory research. (more...)

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