. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. If Skip Bollenbacher had a grant to do it, he'd start reforming science education as early as kindergarten. Because to attract anyoneâblack or white, male or femaleâto science, there needs to be a change in the way we teach it from day one, says the UNC biology professor. "We have succeeded in eroding the in- trinsic interest children have in science," he says. "You grow up loving worms, playing in ; But soon the memorize-regurgitate syndrome of learning starts. And by the time mo
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. If Skip Bollenbacher had a grant to do it, he'd start reforming science education as early as kindergarten. Because to attract anyoneâblack or white, male or femaleâto science, there needs to be a change in the way we teach it from day one, says the UNC biology professor. "We have succeeded in eroding the in- trinsic interest children have in science," he says. "You grow up loving worms, playing in ; But soon the memorize-regurgitate syndrome of learning starts. And by the time most students are in the 10th grade, they 're sick of it all, he says. "They need less facts and more mean- ing," Bollenbacher says. "Students need to be taught at a conceptual ; The universal complaint from young studentsâWhy do I need to know this? "âis finally being heard loud and clear throughout classrooms. A five-year-old needs to learn scienceâ. Lundie Spence or any other subjectâas it relates to him or her, says Bollenbacher. "We have to train teachers to make things interesting and relevant," he says. "This is one of the new trends in science educationâthe idea of relevance," says Sea Grant marine education spe- cialist Lundie Spence. "In a 10th grade science class, students may learn 3,000 new words that are never used ; A program funded by the National Science Foundation is aiming to change the way science is taught in the middle- grades, she says. "They're trying to get away from the layer-cake science curriculum," says Spence, explaining that schools have a tendency to serve up physics, biology, chemistry and geology with no regard to how they relate. "The goal is to integrate science from a very applied, personal level," she says. Students need to be scientifically literate, whether they plan to become scientists or not. "The question were concerned with isâWho can be
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