@article{5ff22a38580148ff96a61b425e934ca8,
title = "A role for neuroscientists in engaging young minds",
abstract = "Neuroscience receives little attention in elementary school education, although students at this age are active explorers of their environment and can relate easily to exercises that involve the science of their senses. The neuroscientist has an important role in supporting elementary educators who might be uncomfortable with teaching science. To encourage such scientist—teacher interactions, changes must be made in the culture of the scientific community to promote these partnerships, with the ultimate goal of improving neuroscience literacy.",
author = "William Cameron and Eric Chudler",
note = "Funding Information: Funding agencies are also uniquely posi tioned to initiate this culture change. When applying for a grant, an investigator could present a plan for how they will disseminate the information that is generated from the research to the public, and this could become an important factor in the peer review process of their grant. The National Science Foundation has started to address this need by requiring grant recipients to discuss how their research will have a broad impact. One way that grant recipients can fulfil this requirement is by developing educational materials for pre-college students and participating in the professional development of school teachers. In addition, agencies could offer supplements to ongoing grants to develop inquiry-based exercises that would capture the essence of work in the laboratory, or even support a pre-college teacher in the laboratory to learn first-hand about how inquiry-based investigation is conducted. Funding Information: E.C's web site, Neuroscience for Kids, is supported by a grant form the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) programme of the National Center for Research Resources. Funding Information: Few neuroscientists take the time to translate their science into a form that can be used by teachers and educators, and for those who do invest time and effort in this endeavour, there are few rewards in terms of career development. These efforts do not usually carry the recognition or value of the published papers, research grants and university teaching responsibilities that are necessary for promotion in academic institutions.Although several agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom (National Institutes of Health (NIH), Howard Hughes Medical Institute and The Wellcome Trust) provide funding options for the development of science education material, there is a need for additional avenues of funding. It has been left to just a few programmes, like the NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) programme, to fund this work.",
year = "2003",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1038/nrn1200",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "4",
pages = "763--768",
journal = "Nature Reviews Neuroscience",
issn = "1471-003X",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "9",
}