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Educational content related to effects of diet on development and behavior using fruit flies as a model organism: Metabolic Syndrome |
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The purpose of this web page is to provide information for ongoing outreach projects with researchers, science teachers in middle and high schools as well as college classes and the general public.
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Too often life science is distilled into disparate facts addressing major biological concepts, but lacking purpose for learning and applying knowledge to real world contexts. The driving principle of this project is to build learning modules employing real world scenarios to foster authentic scientific investigation in biological sciences. Content addressed in modules aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (Achieve, Inc., 2013) for middle and secondary life science, Engineering Design, and Science and Engineering Practices, and promotes critical thinking skills in biological science. |
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Hand out for activity (MS word and PDF) and a powerpoint (ppt) Draft of text for module (MS word) |
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1. Intro to A model for learning about aspects of metabolic syndrome (LaShay Byrd) 2. Diets for metabolic syndrome (LaShay Byrd and Jenni Ho) 3. Stages of larvae (Jenni Ho) Collecting the staged larvae https://youtu.be/vJ7ZV0hxM5g 4. Making a simple Microscope (Ruth Sifuma) 5. Body wall movements (Brecken Overly) 6. Mouth hook movements (Hunter Maxwell & Crysta Meekins ) 7. Ethograms and why ethograms- Brittany Slabach (still to add elk photos to movie) 8. Hat Assay (Maddie Stanback & Emma Rotkis) 9. Development of fruit flies-pupation rate (Clare Cole & Kay Johnson) 10. Anesthetize adult flies for moving them (Samantha Danyi) 11. Light and gravity sense in adults (Sushovan Dixit) 12. Effects of diet-ketogenic specific (Madan Subheeswar) 13. Measuring heart rate in larvae (Ann Cooper et al., 2009) Cooper, A.S., Rymond, K.E., Ward, M.A., Bocook, E.L. and Cooper, R.L. (2009) Monitoring heart function in larval Drosophila melanogaster for physiological studies. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 32: http://www.jove.com/video/1596/monitoring-heart-function-larval-drosophila-melanogaster-for ) 14. The effect
of thermal stressors on larvae and adults fed various diets. 15. A summary of this educational module (LaShay Byrd).
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Resources: Papers and web links Neat web link for middle and high school students and teachers about Fruit flies http://www.flyfacility.ls.manchester.ac.uk/forthepublic/ 1.
Potter, S., Krall, R.M., Mayo, S. Johnson, D., Zeidler-Watters, K.,
and Cooper, R.L. (2016). Population dynamics based on resource availability
and founding effects: Live and computational models. The American Biology
Teacher 78(5): 396-403, ISSN 0002-7685, electronic ISSN 1938-4211 [PDF]. |
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maintained by Robin L. Cooper. Contact: RLCOOP1 at UKY.EDU |