Frontiers in Physiology
Integrating Inquiry, Equity, and The Internet

Enhancing Middle and High School Science Education

Professional Development Fellowship

Local Outreach
Teams 

Local Site Teams

Curriculum Development Fellowship

Frontiers in Physiology is a program of the American Physiological Society (APS), and is sponsored by APS, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA Grant #RR15251), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK Grant #DK 39306) at the National Institutes of Health. The American Association for the Advancement of Science and Wiley Publishers also generously donate materials for teachers in the program each year.

Frontiers in Physiology has four main goals and objectives:

• Develop, evaluate, refine, and disseminate a model and materials for integrating inquiry, equity, and technology into the middle/high school science classroom and into professional development programs;
• Build ongoing working relationships between research scientist and middle/high school teachers through research and in-service experiences and online communications;
• Promote the adoption of national standards for K-12 content and pedagogy --especially inquiry, equity, and technology use -- by middle and high school science teachers through ongoing in-service activities developed collaboratively by teachers and researchers; and
• Increase teachers' skills in developing, assessing, and utilizing web-based curricular materials and resources, especially in integrating online resources into inquiry-based teaching.

Fulfillment of these goals is accomplished through three program components:

• the Professional Development Fellowship and
• the Curriculum Development Fellowship,
• Local Outreach Teams.

In each component, teachers and physiologists work collaboratively to improve science education at middle and high school levels.

 Information for the 2007 Research Teachers

          2008 Awardees

          2007 Awardees

Past Awardees

What do past participants say?

What do APS Research Hosts have to say?

External Evaluation

Integration of the Internet

Inquiry-based Class and Lab Activities

Reflecting on 
Teaching

Resources