Teachers who are selected for this section will receive full support for tuition, room, board, and daily stipend. This version of Section A meets June 10-22, 2001. Focus is on a few living invertebrate models, including their culture and use in inquiry-based laboratories to study animal development, behavior, physiology, and environmental biology. Extensive written materials are provided. There is no textbook.
Registration requires direct application to, and acceptance by, the instructor.
Teachers who are selected receive full support for tuition, room, and board. This version of Section A meets June 24-29, 2001. Section B. Plant Biology. This field-oriented course is designed to familiarize teachers with common plant species in prairies, forests and wetlands in Iowa. Participants will be involved in developing problem-based laboratories using these species on such topics as seed dispersal, growth, reproductive biology, and anatomical and morphological adaptations of plants that they can incorporate into their own classes.