Can Corporate America Help

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Can Corporate America Help?

• How Xerox Does It With the Science Consultant
  Program
• Ewart Leblanc

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Agenda

• Introduction
• History
• Program Goals
• Organization
• SCP Kits
• Performance - Survey Results
• Summary
• QA

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XSCP What is it?

• A partnership with Rochester N.Y. City School
  District
• Xerox engineers visit elementary schools 2x/
  month
• Students engaged in hands-on Science projects

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SCP History

• Started in 1968. Objective Supplement School
  Science Programs
• Original sponsors
• American Chemical Society
• Rochester Council for Scientific Societies
• Xerox assumed full sponsorship in 1971

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The SCP Program Goals

• Early engagement with students (4th 6th grade)
• Reinforce natural curiosity and interest in
  science
• Make learning fun through hands-on activities
• Assist students to develop problem solving
  skills
• Assist students in preparation for the 4th grade
  ESPET
• Provide positive role models to students

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Organization
School Principal
Classroom Teacher
Manager
Manager, Community Outreach Program
SCP Consultant
SCP Coordinator
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Science Consultant Kits

• Section I. Biology
• Protozoa
• Respiration
• Seeds and Plants
• Flower Dissection
• Nutrition I
• Nutrition II
• Ecology I pollution
• Ecology II Endangered Species
• Frog/Earthworm dissection

• Section II. Physics
• Introduction to Electricity
• Static Electricity
• Color Mixing
• Magnetism
• Light, Optics, Pin Hole Camera
• Sound I
• Sound II
• Xerography
• Kitchen Physics
• Flight

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Science Consultant Kits

• Section IV. Earth Science
• Geology 3 kinds of rocks
• Minerals - Streak/Color
• Minerals - Hardness
• Minerals Cleavage and fracture
• Fossils
• Introduction to Solar System
• Solar system II
• Mapping

• Section III. Chemistry
• Introduction to chemical reactions
• Crystal growth
• Mystery powders
• Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide
• Heat
• Crystal microscopy
• States of matter

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Science Consultant Kits

• Section V. Miscellaneous
• Probability Chance
• Optical Illusions
• Tangrams I
• Tangrams II
• Engineering Structures
• Barge Building

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Procedures

• Lesson preparations
• School visitations
• Materials
• Lesson plans Supplies
• Supplies retrieval

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Other Program Elements

• Classroom visits
• Invention Convention
• Challenge (Engineering Structures Competition)
• Evening of Recognition

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2002-2003 Survey
Survey Overview

• A total of 57 classroom surveys were distributed
• 49 surveys (85) returned
• 50 of all classrooms surveyed were at the 4th
  grade level

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Survey - Preparation/Delivery of Lesson Plans

• 81 of the teachers play active role in lesson
  plan development
• 95 of the teachers reported that consultants are
  adequately prepared
• 90 of the teachers responded that they speak or
  meet with their Consultants ahead of time to plan
  the curriculum.
• When asked if their Consultants teach at the
  level of the students, 84 of the teachers
  agreed.

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Survey - SCP As Motivator
The Science Consultant Program has helped my
students develop a
greater interest in Science Technology
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Survey Role model consultants
The Science Consultants have been positive role
models for our students

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Survey - State test preparation

• The Science Consultant Program has been useful in
  preparing my 4th grade students for ESPET
  assessment

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Survey - Linkage to curriculum
The science kits cover the majority of the
subjects of the classroom science curriculum

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Survey - Instructional benefits

• The Science Consultant Program has enhanced my
  comfort level to teach hands-on science
  

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Survey - Write in

• Our Science Consultant is a fabulous teacher.
  He is energetic and positive. The students love
  it when he comes and we greatly appreciate the
  much-needed science kits. What a great program!
  Thank you so much
• School 23

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Summary

• Eighty-eight volunteers
• Seventeen thousand student contacts/year
• Success factors
• Solid Corporate sponsorship Consultants
• Supportive School Districts
• Committed Volunteers
• Hands-on approach to teaching
• Thirty six years of of program innovation

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QA