# Dartmouth Rural STEM Educator Partnership

> **NIH NIH R25** · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · 2022 · $252,947

## Abstract

Project Summary
The employment demands in STEM fields grew twice as fast as employment in non-STEM fields in the
last decade, making it a matter of national importance to educate the next generation about science,
engineering and the scientific process. The need to educate students about STEM is particularly
pronounced in low-income, rural communities where: i) students may perceive that STEM learning has
little relevance to their lives; ii) there are little, if any, STEM-related resources and infrastructure
available at their schools or in their immediate areas; and iii) STEM teachers, usually one per school,
often teach out of their area expertise, and lack a network from which they can learn and with which
they can share experiences. Through the proposed project, middle school teachers in low-income, rural
communities will partner with Dartmouth faculty and graduate students and professional science
educators at the Montshire Museum of Science to develop sustainable STEM curricular units for their
schools. These crosscutting units will include a series of hands-on, investigative, active learning, and
standards-aligned lessons that may be used annually for the betterment of student learning. Once
developed and tested in a classroom setting in our four pilot schools, the units will be made available to
other partner schools in NH and VT and finally to any school wishing to adopt them. In addition, A
STEM rural educator network, through which crosscutting units may be disseminated and teachers may
share and support each other, will be created to enhance the teachers ability to network, seek advice,
share information, etc.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10415182
- **Project number:** 5R25GM129820-04
- **Recipient organization:** DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
- **Principal Investigator:** ROGER D SLOBODA
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $252,947
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-07-05 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10415182

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10415182, Dartmouth Rural STEM Educator Partnership (5R25GM129820-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10415182. Licensed CC0.

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