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The North Mississippi grades K-12 (NMGK12) project, in part funded by the National Science Foundation, places graduate students from Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) into the city of Oxford and Lafayette county schools as resources for the local teachers.

The NSF fellows participate in interdisciplinary teams to locate and/or develop materials to be utilized in elementary and secondary science and mathematics classrooms. The projects goal is to enhance the educational practices in use by K-12 teachers and students with emphasis on materials that improve critical thinking skills, effectively reaching students in every grade, academic performance level, cultural background and learning style.

As often as appropriate, the curriculum will utilize the Mississippi River as the conceptual "umbrella" under which a variety of lessons and activities may be developed. By crafting many activities and problems around a single conceptual theme, students will grasp the variety of disciplines that are actively involved in any given study as well at the intertwining of skills and content that such studies require.


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