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To Better Engage Students, Instructors Should Create Lab Exercises With Real-World Examples., Autumn Kelsch
To Better Engage Students, Instructors Should Create Lab Exercises With Real-World Examples., Autumn Kelsch
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USU senior Autumn studies biology here in Logan and led and funded this project herself through a student grant. ‘Elementary Microbiology’ is a required course for many medical fields, and traditionally relies on several pre-determined research projects in class. However, educators suggest that students gain more from open-ended projects where the answer is unknown and the students’ findings contribute to our knowledge on the subject. When Autumn was hired as a teaching assistant for this course at USU, she developed and created a project where students look for bacteria in soil samples that may help fight infections. She now hopes …