0:12 When students get into the UWF teach
0:14 program after taking what we call an exploring inquiry teaching course um
0:16 usually after that course they have the
0:19 opportunity then to do a paid summer internship uh working with usually the
0:22 prospective population but you know students in general and then following
0:25 that usually in their Junior and senior years they have the opportunity to
0:27 undertake a citizen science project working with a science faculty member
0:29 and a high school middle school science teacher to develop lesson plans that
0:31 they will be able to use with their students uh in the classroom they also
0:33 get the opportunity to take teaching English as secondary language course and
0:34 sometimes um engage in a book club regarding issues of equity and diversity
0:37 we found especially with the scholar that the most impactful experience has
0:38 been the citizen science case in point uh is one of our graduates car
0:40 Montgomery who started working with a citizen science project you know as a
0:42 scholar and had the opportunity to continue it as a first year
1:00 teacher Cara M reach out to me and she's in the noise scholar program and we
1:02 filled out this giant Grant to try and get funding through the Southeastern
1:03 noise scholarship for us to afford the equipment in order to start her own
1:06 Marine Science Program in her department and so between that and and all the
1:09 other resources we have on campus we're going to try and bring the citizen
1:12 science aspect to the classroom since we can't bring the kids out in the field
1:15 with us uh we're going to bring them the water and let them use the microscopes
1:17 to identify microplastics maybe get fish involved later in the semester if
1:19 there's time we're not quite sure about this one and then kind of analyze that
1:23 data and see how students react to Citizen science and what their General
1:24 opinions are on it with the microplastic project we were able to uh make really
1:27 good lesson plans and Implement citizen science with the students and get them
1:30 into real life research and now I'm at Pine Forest High School I'm a biology
1:33 and Anatomy teacher at Pine Forest High School and all in all it helped me
1:37 better try to implement real world situations of real life problems of
1:40 having my students do in class field work with the students
1:43 there bring being able to bring Research into the classroom addresses know those
1:46 issues of equity some students might not have the opportunity or exposure to
1:48 research outside of that classroom and it also helps them as St Majors know
1:51 still continue to be engaged with science while they're also being
2:47 educators