Out of the Tower and into the Classroom: Marine Science Graduate Students as K-12 Classroom Contributors

Book Review: Exemplary Practices in Marine Science Education

“…The use of appropriate role models is another uniting theme across chapters. Authors, like Brill et al (2018), advocate getting experts out of the ivory tower and into the classroom. Similarly, the importance of providing students and the public with authentic research experiences is covered in multiple chapters, from biofilm and biodiversity projects targeting primary school students and teachers in Sweden, the United States, and Norway (Frederick et al, 2018), to oceanaccess projects for socially disadvantaged participants of all ages in the United Kingdom (Baker and Readman, 2018), to general information on meaningful watershed educational experiences in the United States .…”