Teaching and Learning
161 Wyatt
Peabody #330
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
615-343-8091
615-322-8999
As part of a three-person team in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Lucas is developing a public school based math and science initiative that is concurrently a demonstration classroom, staff development, and research site. She is also a member of a science-math research team investigating various aspects of student-conducted science research meetings, where children present their research program progress to their peers in weekly updates, field questions from class members and others, and then revise their work. She teaches guest classes in elementary science education and a combined math, social studies, and science methods course in early childhood education. Lucas is completing integrated science/math materials for a teacher Web site on inquiry-based science and mathematics, and teaches a course in elementary math methods