1. Applying Scale Research to NSF MSP: Students Discover Friday Institute Scale Research Team Project Leads: Jeni Corn, Sherry Freeman

2. Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

3. Mission: Advancing education through innovation in teaching, learning and leadership, we bring together students, teachers, researchers, policy- makers, educational professionals, and other community members to foster collaborations in improving education.

4. FI Scale Research Team

5. GOAL: Improve STEM education by implementing hands-on citizen science – “real science” in middle school classrooms NSF-funded Math Science Partnership (MSP) study (Award #1319293)

6. www.mirror.co.uk Citizen Science

7. www.mirror.co.uk Citizen Science Citizen science is science in which the public, be they 8 or 80, engages in the process of doing science, science that contributes to our collective body of knowledge and is both novel and can be built upon.

8. Muddy Microbes

9. Students Discover Partners

10. Students Discover LEA Partners *

12. One of the greatest challenges of educational improvement is the difficulty of scaling-up locally successful innovations to a wide variety of settings while maintaining effectiveness, affordability, and sustainability (Dede, 2005). Students Discover Scale Research

13. Purpose: Examine the process for moving the citizen science curriculum innovation from the more ideal settings of original implementation to a variety settings where conditions for success may be less favorable Role: Embedded researchers (e.g., Malinda, Sherry, Lauren, Oriana, Tricia, Terrance) constantly probing about modifications to the innovation to improve scalability across contexts

15. Students Discover Scale Research

16. Next Steps for the Scale Research 1.Focus on nested learning communities in schools 2.Engage district and school leaders in the Students Discover project Discussion: What can we do to help gain support for the Students Discover modules?