Andrew Ahlgren, associate director of Project 2061, talks about implementing the Benchmarks in schools. Excerpted from NCREL's videoseries, Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, videoconference 3, Children as Explorers (NCREL, 1991).
"We are having our teams of teachers, six teams of teachers, around the country right now, come up with an entire K-12 model for how you would structure experiences for kids for thirteen years to reach the goals of science for all Americans, not a complete curriculum, a model that will take your school district a couple of years to work on still, to fill it in with exactly the activities that suit you and make if fit your own intent for your own school district."