Secondary Biology Lab Curricula: Summer Session

Secondary Biology Lab Curricula (BIOC 633; online & 1 week in classroom)

What are the characteristics that most great instructional activities share? How can you modify an existing activity to increase student involvement, interest, and understanding? How can you make use of current events to communicate with students about the fun and complexity of doing science? And how do national and state science standards drive your curricular choices? In this three-unit class, we will explore these ideas by using and discussing exemplary curricula taken from a variety of sources. The emphasis will be for teachers to adapt classroom activities to reflect the results of research on teaching and learning in science, and to promote greater student understanding in biology.

This class is a hybrid (partially online/partially in-classroom) course, which means you must come to Tucson July 18-23, 2010 to participate in the in-classroom activities. On-campus housing for out-of-town participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Your cost for this housing would be ~$26/night. Course runs June 7-July 30. (3 units of credit). Cost: $1,350 plus housing, food and travel. Instructor: Lisa Elfring, Ph.D.

Course syllabus will be available shortly.

If you wish to take classes through our graduate NON-DEGREE PROGRAM in Summer 2010, please apply online at: http://www.biochem.arizona.edu/AZ-START/courses.htm on or before May 22. Please be sure to submit all 3 applications for this course:

Department application,
Graduate College application, and
On-campus housing application (available in January 2010).

The University of Arizona
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
General Biology Program for Secondary Teachers
warder@email.arizona.edu