C&I 440 CS Theory and Practice in Classroom Science

Chickscope is a project to study chicken embryo development using a remotely-controlled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) instrument. It is being developed by educators and researchers from several departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with Illinois teachers.

Illinois Chickscope (ILCS) is a professional development program for K-12 teachers during the Spring, Summer, and Fall semesters of 1999. Selected teachers will actively collaborate with preservice teachers, graduate students, and interdisciplinary faculty and staff members during the project. Selected teachers will also collaborate with project staff to assess the effectiveness of Chickscope for student learning in their classrooms. The ILCS project offers potential for producing a "best practice" model for inquiry-based learning and teaching with emerging technologies.