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Graduate students design neuroscience outreach educational activities for grades 3–5
Author(s) -
Puder Barb
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.632.5
Subject(s) - presentation (obstetrics) , outreach , graduate students , psychology , terminology , pace , medical education , likert scale , mathematics education , neuroscience , medicine , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , developmental psychology , geodesy , political science , law , radiology , geography
Graduate students in the Masters of Occupational therapy program at Samuel Merritt University selected a neuroscience topic area and created an informational poster, hands‐on learning activity to reinforce neuroscience concepts, and a short presentation describing the neuroscience topic. Students self selected to work with 3–4 other graduate students and submitted 3 possible neuroscience topics that they were interested in researching the relevant information. Requirements for the neuroscience educational outreach project included choosing a neuroscience topic that is interesting and relevant to children in grades 3–5, creating a poster that uses terminology and images that are age appropriate, and designing an interactive 10 minute presentation that includes a fun, hands‐on activity to engage the children in the neuroscience topic. Periodic assignments were given to keep each of the graduate students groups on pace for a successful completion of the project which was presented during the last week of the semester at a local elementary school. Graduate students were assessed on several categories regarding the poster, presentation, and the hands‐on activity. This score was part of their neuroscience grade for the semester. Graduate students also completed a survey regarding their perceptions and value of the project. Survey questions were based on the Likert scale.