About Broader Impacts
Bringing Research to Life!
Mind Map: SBAR fellows create a collaborative mind map of the SBAR project during the professional development week at the University of Arizona.
Industry Partner Field Trips: SBAR teachers and fellow tour Bridgestone’s processing plant to see how guayule is processed and turned into rubber.
Interactive Refection: SBAR teachers and fellows write down what information students’ should know in each of the Arid Land curriculum areas.
Meeting Experts: Extension specialist, Dr. Kulbhushan Grover, explains his research on guar to SBAR teachers and fellows.
Lab Demos: Teachers and fellows get hands on experience conducting SBAR experiments that they will share with their students.
Fieldtrips: Learning about guayule from extension specialist Dr. John Idowu in a guayule test field in Las Cruces, NM
Welcome to the UA COE Research Office’s broader impacts site. Explore and learn more about our program designs in support of teacher professional learning opportunities and p-20 student learning experiences. Many of our practices are a result of grant collaborations with other UA units, community organizations, and state/national agencies. Because our diverse partnerships are with other University of Arizona colleges, community partners, and state and national agencies, we strive to create learning practices that can move from one partner to another. This site will share our designs, practices, and feature examples from select projects.
Our design approach is to provide structure through guided activities so that the learning experience can be creative yet guides learners to arrives at concrete outputs. This means that learners will appear to be ‘messy’ while on their creative journey. This leads to more innovative thinking tied to a growth mindset approach to learning, where we all want to be challenged in order to solve and create new ideas, lessons, projects, and activities.
Broader Impacts stemming from academic research, outreach, and education include impacts and related tools and resources that extend the impact of academic activities and scholarship and includes the Broader Impacts.
• Full participation of women, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities in STEM
• Improved STEM education and educator development at any level
• Increased public scientific literacy and public engagement with science and technology
• Improved well-being of individuals in society • Development of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce
• Increased partnerships between academia, industry, and others
• Improved national security
• Increased economic competitiveness of the United States • Enhanced infrastructure for research and education