An electronic newsletter for the science education community
May/June
2006
In Honor of Andrew Ahlgren
![[PHOTO] Andrew "Chick" Ahlgren](/images/staff/chick_med.jpg)
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What the
future holds in store for individual human beings, the nation,
and the world depends largely on the wisdom with which humans use
science and technology. And that, in turn, depends on the
character, distribution, and effectiveness of the education that
people receive.
—Science for All Americans
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AAAS Project 2061 would like to thank everyone who has honored Dr. Andrew "Chick" Ahlgren by sharing their memories and by attending
the recent memorial service in Washington, DC. Chick was a teacher, a thinker, even an illustrator of his own ideas and those of his colleagues (see example below). We invite you to read
the tributes we have gathered in his memory and to recall his many
contributions to science education:
Learning goals should be considered not merely as a collection of ideas
organized under various topic headings, but as a progression of
understanding that includes what leads up to each specific goal
and where it then leads.…[W]e owe it to students to think
through very carefully the fabric of understanding we expect them
to learn.
—Andrew Ahlgren, Atlas of Science Literacy
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![[ILLUSTRATION] Teacher handing a student model parts and envisioning a complex model while the student envisions another, simpler model](media/chick_illustrated_sm.jpg)
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