The goal was to both to improve the quality of science education and to encourage more students to pursue science careers. In addition, the teachers' interactions with the scientists and exposure to everyday uses of their disciplines would help them to be better educators.

To attain this goal, four areas of core competency at GA were initially selected to form the basis for the development of inquiry-based education modules and associated workshops. Scientist/teacher teams wrote these modules, which fuse the content and methodology of industrial research and development with the teaching skills of experienced science teachers.

Hundreds of teachers attended these initial workshops, which include:

• Explorations in Materials Science
• Fusion: Energy of the Stars
• Recombinant DNA Labs - Basic Tools for the Molecular Biologist
• Portrait of an Atom
• Radioactivity in the Environment

Since these workshops were developed, additional educational modules have been developed and presented to teachers at local, state, and national conferences. These additional workshops include:

• It’s a Colorful Life
• The Line of Resistance: Using a Graphite Pencil to Explore the Electrical Properties of Materials and Circuits
• Seeing the Light: The Physics and Materials Science of the Incandescent Light Bulb
• Staying Alive: The Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering of Safe Driving
• Chromatics: The Science of Color

The Line of Resistance module and the Explorations in Materials Science modules were revised in collaboration with the Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) at the University of Wisconsin.