AAAS/Subaru Essay Writing Competition for K-12 Educators

In February 2008, six science teachers were awarded the AAAS/Subaru Essay Writing Competition Award for their essays on designing science lesson plans and integrating technology in the classroom.

The awards, presented at the AAAS Annual Meeting, recognized four teachers with first-place prizes and two others with honorable mentions. The teachers, chosen from across the United States, were cited for their wealth of knowledge about bringing innovative science into the classroom.

More information about the award and the award winners can be found here.

 

 

First Place:	Honorable Mention:
Lisa Austin, South Portland, Maine The Joy of Germs: "Is It Catching?" Anne Brataas, St. Paul, Minnesota Teaching Phylogeny with the Great Halloween Faunal Assemblage Turtle Haste, Albuquerque, New Mexico Middle School Students and Scientists Collaborating in Research through Electronic Communication Simon Holdaway, Windsor, Connecticut Bad Hair Day	Christen LaBruna, Buffalo, New York Laptops Create Smiles and Inquiry Robert Tyrrell, Buffalo, New York Enhancing the Inquiry Classroom with Historical Science

 

Check out the 2007 essay winners and their entries.