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Materials
Available for Teachers
One of the goals of the outreach
section of the grant is to provide continuing support to local area
teachers, even after they have taken one of our update courses.
Toward this end we are supplying materials that were used in the update
courses and that would be particularly useful in the classroom to promote
inquiry-driven experimentation and learning. The
stipulations for obtaining the material are:
- Completion of one of the update
courses.
- Willingness to provide us with
feedback. We will request that you forward us a brief
description of the exercise for which you used the materials and an
assessment of its impact and success. This could take the form
of your lesson plan. We will also ask for your responses to a
brief survey for use in our annual report to the HHMI.
Materials are available
for the following courses:
Endocrine Physiology
Bioinformatics and Molecular Biotechnology
Entomology
Microbiology
Field Botany
Integrative Biology/Physiology
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
I"TAILORED
REQUESTS"
We will be glad to furnish
teachers with materials for specific experiments they would like to perform
with the entire class or with selected students.
Materials are available to teachers who
partcipated in the following courses and who would like to perform some of
the experiments in their classrooms.
REQUESTS FOR EQUIPMENT
More expensive pieces of
equipment such as electrophoresis equipment can be borrowed for use in
classroom exercises. We also are initiating a program of
“Mini-Grants” to Purchase Equipment. For those teachers that wish to
use more costly molecular biology and biotechnology equipment on a more
regular basis but for whom the cost is prohibitive, we offer a
program that allows teachers to write a “mini-grant” requesting the
purchases of needed equipment. The conditions are as follows:
- Familiarity with how to use the
materials. This could be satisfied by completing one of the
update courses, visiting the College and receiving instruction, or
providing us with a brief description of previous training.
- Willingness to provide us with
feedback. We will request that you forward us a brief
description of the exercise for which you used the materials and an
assessment of its impact and success. This could take the form
of your lesson plan. We will also ask for your responses to a
brief survey for use in our annual report to the HHMI.
HOW CAN
THESE MATERIALS BE OBTAINED?
Please contact Margaret Saha at
the College of William and Mary via e-mail (mssaha@wm.edu) or phone (221-2407) to
request materials. Depending upon what is needed, the materials
can be picked up at the College (if a loan of some of the larger equipment
is required) or sent via mail (if only the reagents or supplies are
required). We would be happy to provide a demonstration or training
if requested. Teachers should also feel free to contact us if they have any
questions regarding the use of these materials in the classroom. There is
no cost for any of the materials, but please provide us with as much
advance notice as possible.
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