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Addressing Misconceptions About Evolution, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll, Don Dosch
Addressing Misconceptions About Evolution, Sarah O'Leary-Driscoll, Don Dosch
Faculty Publications & Research
"Leave with effective ways to identify and address misconceptions about evolution, with a particular focus on supporting explanations with evidence."
Successful Inquiry Based Activities In High School Physiology, Sowmya Anjur
Successful Inquiry Based Activities In High School Physiology, Sowmya Anjur
Faculty Publications & Research
Physiology and Disease students at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora employ inquiry driven activities to improve their understanding and articulation of the discipline. Students make heart models and make correlations with heart rate, lung capacity and blood pressure measurements. Students seemed to gain a better understanding of the cardiovascular unit as reflected in their heart unit assessment scores.
Watts Cooking: Using A Microwave To Prepare Bacterial Media For Inquiry-Based Experiments, Judith A. Scheppler
Watts Cooking: Using A Microwave To Prepare Bacterial Media For Inquiry-Based Experiments, Judith A. Scheppler
Staff Publications & Research
Microbiology provides an excellent opportunity to capture student interest, encourage exploration, and to begin the development of research skills. With a low power microwave, similar to the type found in homes, and a short list of materials easily obtainable and/or found in many biology laboratories, you can begin to open this exciting world to your life science and biology classes. Microwaves are available at very reasonable prices, and can substitute for a much more expensive laboratory autoclave. Your students can choose and design inquiry investigations as well as learn basic laboratory techniques.
Understanding The Neuronal Controls Behind Heart Rate And Respiration, Sowmya Anjur
Understanding The Neuronal Controls Behind Heart Rate And Respiration, Sowmya Anjur
Faculty Publications & Research
Students in the course Physiology and Disease at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy learn physiology by designing, executing and evaluating their own experiments based on evidence. This semester, students designed laboratory experiments that involved the use of the same type of exercise to increase both heart rate and respiration rate. Students will collect quantitative data from these experiments to make conclusions regarding the correlation of heart rate and respiration rate. This will be followed by student research into the neuronal controls in the brain that were responsible for these correlations.
Pbl Waste Not Want Not: Using Agricultural Plant Waste, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
Pbl Waste Not Want Not: Using Agricultural Plant Waste, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy
Teacher Resources
This sample Problem Based Learning (PBL) lesson focuses on the best use for agricultural waste, using an apple orchard as the hypothetical problem. The unit is designed as a sample curriculum for educators learning the PBL process.
Integration Of Student Centered Physiology Learning Into Related High School Science Courses, Sowmya Anjur
Integration Of Student Centered Physiology Learning Into Related High School Science Courses, Sowmya Anjur
Faculty Publications & Research
Student centered teaching was previously found to enhance student understanding and even improve performance of students in other courses taken in the same semester in high school (6). In an effort to improve student performance in related science classes, the same student centered methods used in my Physiology and Disease (PAD) class were implemented in a Biophysics class this semester. Initial student surveys showed that students felt that integrating physiology concepts into Biophysics helped them understand the material from two very different perspectives, giving them a "more complete picture". Test scores from each of the four units were compared in …
2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Coal", U.S. Energy Information Administration
2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Coal", U.S. Energy Information Administration
Ecosystem Disruption & Climate Change
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2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Petroleum Products", U.S. Energy Information Administration
2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Petroleum Products", U.S. Energy Information Administration
Ecosystem Disruption & Climate Change
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2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Natural Gas", U.S. Energy Information Administration
2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Natural Gas", U.S. Energy Information Administration
Ecosystem Disruption & Climate Change
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2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Totals", U.S. Energy Information Administration
2b: "Copy Of Carbon Dioxide Data Illinois Totals", U.S. Energy Information Administration
Ecosystem Disruption & Climate Change
No abstract provided.
How Our Health Depends On Biodiversity, Eric Chivian M.D., Aaron Bernstein M.D., M.P.H.
How Our Health Depends On Biodiversity, Eric Chivian M.D., Aaron Bernstein M.D., M.P.H.
Ecosystem Disruption & Climate Change
The eminent Harvard biology Professor Edward O.Wilson once said about ants, “We need them to survive, but they don’t need us at all.” The same, in fact, could be said about countless other insects, bacteria, fungi, plankton, plants, and other organisms. This fundamental truth, however, is largely lost to many of us. Rather, we humans often act as if we are totally independent of Nature, as if our driving thousands of other species to extinction and disrupting the life-giving services they provide will have no effect on us whatsoever.
This summary, using concrete examples from our award-winning Oxford University Press …
Constructing And Using Case Studies In Genetics To Engage Students In Active Learning, Sue Styer
Constructing And Using Case Studies In Genetics To Engage Students In Active Learning, Sue Styer
Faculty Publications & Research
One of the national goals in science education is to teach science in a way that mirrors the process of science as inquiry, described by the National Science Education Standards (NSES) Science Teaching Standard B and Content Standard A (NRC, 1996). Inquiry-based learning, including the use of case studies, is one of several types of active learning that allows students to experience critical thinking skills inherent in the science process (Handelsman et al., 2007). Using case studies also develops skills in group learning and personalizes and humanizes science, making it more relevant to students (National Center for Case Study Teaching …
1: "To Know Ourselves", The U.S. Department Of Energy, The Human Genome Project
1: "To Know Ourselves", The U.S. Department Of Energy, The Human Genome Project
Genomics: Past & Future
AT THE END OF THE ROAD in Little Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Alta is a place of near-mythic renown among skiers. In time it may well assume similar status among molecular geneticists. In December 1984, a conference there, co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, pondered a single question: Does modern DNA research offer a way of detecting tiny genetic mutations—and, in particular, of observing any increase in the mutation rate among the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and their descendants? In short the answer was, Not yet. But in an atmosphere of rare intellectual fertility, …
Reconnecting The Sciences, John Eggebrecht, Raymond Dagenais, Don Dosch, Norman J. Merczak, Margaret N. Park, Susan C. Styer, David Workman
Reconnecting The Sciences, John Eggebrecht, Raymond Dagenais, Don Dosch, Norman J. Merczak, Margaret N. Park, Susan C. Styer, David Workman
Faculty Publications & Research
During the last three years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, we have been working on a partial reconstruction of Whitehead's "one subject matter," a course reconnecting biology, chemistry, earth and space sciences, and physics into an Integrated Science program.
2: "The Mapping Of Chromosome 16", Norman A. Doggett, Raymond L. Stallings, Carl E. Hildebrand, Robert K. Moyzis
2: "The Mapping Of Chromosome 16", Norman A. Doggett, Raymond L. Stallings, Carl E. Hildebrand, Robert K. Moyzis
Genomics: Past & Future
Human chromosome 16 is the main focus of the mapping efforts at Los Alamos. The large photomicrograph on these opening pages illustrates the starting point for those mapping efforts, the evaluation of our chromosome-16-specific library of cloned fragments. Among the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, one pair, chromosome 16, is identified by fluorescence in-situ hybridization. Thousands of yellow fluorescent probes derived from the clone library have hybridized to both copies of chromosome 16. The high density and uniform coverage of the fluorescent signals were a strong indication that we could use the library to construct a map of overlapping cloned …