Illinois Chickscope: A Professional Development Program for K-12 Teachers

Umesh Thakkar

Education Division
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

27 August 1998

Chickscope is a project to study chicken embryo development using a variety of educational resources, such as inquiry-based curriculum materials, interactive modules on egg mathematics, image processing, and remotely controlled magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) instrument. Illinois Chickscope is a professional development program on Chickscope for 32 K-12 teachers from Champaign County and Charleston-Mattoon area during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 1998. In this presentation, Umesh will summarize the Illinois Chickscope project, including the evaluation procedures. In addition, he will review how teachers are integrating MR imaging (with and without remote access to the MRI instrument) in their classroom curriculum.