Her co-investigators are Barbara Murphy, Director of Shirley G. Moore Lab School in the Institute of Child Development, and Steven Carlson in Extension Natural Resources in the Department of Forest Resources.

This interdisciplinary, collaborative project will provide extensive training about the nature of science and math, how children learn, science as inquiry, and how to integrate science and math with Ojibwe cultural curriculum. Monthly mentoring will be provided to Head Start teachers over the grant period, and community members will be included in the Head Start science and math activities. The curriculum will connect to the world around reservation children, and build on their current cultural curriculum.