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"Schooling Fish: BioEYES aims to get students excited about science"
Andrea Appleton, Baltimore City Paper
"On a recent Friday morning, a class of fifth-graders at Coldstream Park Elementary were not so much attentive as enthralled. Some students oohed and aaahed over a microscope where an anesthetized zebrafish larva lay, its heart visibly beating through its transparent body. Others hunkered over petri dishes, murmuring and pointing."
"Promoting Science Through Project BioEYES"
Nora Zietz, Baltimore's Child via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
"If your child attends one of about 38 public schools or a handful of lucky private schools in the Baltimore area, there is a good chance he or she can tell you why it makes evolutionary sense for a female zebrafish to lay 200 to 600 eggs a week. In fact, your youngster may have already told you more about the zebrafish and its genetic code, stem cell biology, and the impact of the environment on living organisms than you can remember from your own school days."
"Educational Pioneer BioEYES Goes Down Under"
Carnegie Institution for Science
“The innovative, educational, outreach program BioEYES has now been adopted by Monash University and the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. The down-under partnership program debuts this August. BioEYES is designed to foster an interest in and a love for science in elementary, middle, and high school students. Over the course of one week, students watch the transparent zebrafish, Danio rerio, grow from a single-celled zygote to a larval fish complete with a beating heart. Since its inception in 2002, BioEYES has served nearly 35,000 students in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and South Bend, Indiana. The Australian partnership is the program’s first foray abroad.”
"Students Participate in National Science Program" (PDF)
The Hearing and Speech Agency
"'The BioEYES project was over last Friday and today [Thursday] the children are still talking about it,' says Jill Berie, Educational Director at Gateway School. 'The project was perfect for our students,' she continued. 'Every child had a job, so every child had a chance to do real science and that is an idea we can continue to build upon.'"
"Turning Students on to Science" (PDF)
Elizabeth Finkel, Cosmos Magazine (Australia)
"How then to impart the awe and wonder of science back to jaded students? Enter BioEYES. BioEYES is a science activity based on the development of the zebrafish - a creature that has been causing lots of awe and wonder since it made its debut in labs a decade or so ago. Seeing these little striped fish swimming around the tank, it might not be too obvious why. It's when you see their eggs that the awe hits you. They are transparent: all the wondrous events that transform a yolky one-cell egg into a swimming fish take place right in front of your eyes."
BioEYES in Baltimore County Public Schools
BCPS News
This video spotlights the science outreach program, BioEYES, in Baltimore County Public Schools. It also contains footage of scientist and founder of BioEYES, Dr. Steven Farber, and an inside look at the Carnegie Institution for Science, home to BioEYES Baltimore.
"A Conversation With Steven A. Farber: To Teach Genetics, Zebra Fish Go to School"
Claudia Dreifus, The New York Times
"Kids like animals. The fish grab their interest. The teachers tell me that they don’t have attendance problems in the week we’re there. Most of the children we see are low-income.... Some of what we see is heartbreaking. We got a letter from a Philadelphia youngster named Dasha. She wrote us something like: 'I just wanted to thank you for coming to our class. I think you thought we were the worst class you ever had. All our teachers say that. Thank you for letting us use your microscope.' Can you imagine kids hearing that from teachers?"