Frontiers in Physiology
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Hear about current physiology research topics on Life Lines, a Podcast of the APS

Celebrate PhUn Week! Engage your students in some exercise and health-related activities to learn about physiology.

APS awarded an NIH NCRR SEPA grant to support the Frontiers program.

Frontiers Alumni RT Kathleen Caslow (Alexandria, VA) wins a free course in Costa Rica with Ecology Project International from a raffle drawn at NABT 2009 in Denver!

Follow APS Frontiers Alumni RT/Mentor Isabelle Camille on her Fulbright Exchange fellowship to India on her blog and a Miami Herald news article written by one of her former students.



Welcome to Frontiers in Physiology

Frontiers in Physiology is a program of the American Physiological Society (APS), and is sponsored by APS, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA Grant #RR025127), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK Grant #DK 39306) at the National Institutes of Health. The American Association for the Advancement of Science and Wiley Publishers also generously donate materials for teachers in the program each year.

Frontiers in Physiology has four main goals and objectives:

  • Develop, evaluate, refine, and disseminate a model and materials for integrating inquiry, equity, and technology into the middle/high school science classroom and into professional development programs;
  • Build ongoing working relationships between research scientist and middle/high school teachers through research and in-service experiences and online communications;
  • Promote the adoption of national standards for K-12 content and pedagogy -- especially inquiry, equity, and technology use -- by middle and high school science teachers through ongoing in-service activities developed collaboratively by teachers and researchers; and
  • Increase teachers' skills in developing, assessing, and utilizing web-based curricular materials and resources, especially in integrating online resources into inquiry-based teaching.

Fulfillment of these goals is accomplished through three program components:

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In each component, teachers and physiologists work collaboratively to improve science education at middle and high school levels.

 

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The Frontiers in Physiology programs are developed and sponsored by the American Physiological Society with additional funding from the National Center for Research Resources (Science Education Partnership Award #RR15251) at the National Institutes of Health.

 
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