Working side-by-side with museum scientists and other experts in classrooms, in the community, and in the school's adopted watershed, teachers learned high-level technology skills, then involved students in firsthand investigations on water quality, water conservation, erosion, and other pressing community issues. This museum–school partnership program, Communities Alive in Nature, supported an inquiry-based science reform initiative and turned an underperforming science program into a distinguished one.
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 1/1/2006Stock # sc06_043_04_42Volume 043Issue 04