Stealth learning - keep students glued to Science

A DUKE university pharmacology professor has devised a novel method of making science education more interesting for high school students.

Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, who left lab bench to focus on science, education, claims that she and her colleagues have so far boosted the basic science knowledge of 7,210 high school students by 16 percent.

She revealed that they did so by conducting a national experiment, wherein they taught high school teachers across the US to incorporate drug-related topics into biology and chemistry.

I call it “Stealth learning “. The student is having fun picking up facts about things they are interested in. But at the same time they are actually learning basic principles about science.” She said in an interview.
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