http://www.fcps.net/

SCIENCE TEACHERS WORKSHOP

Community-Based Science Program

Funded by KY Improving Educator Quality Program

http://www.uky.edu/

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Summer 2007

Place: Rm. 215 Biology Building

675 Rose St., Univ. of KY

The Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment (GO TO)

Photo page: Go To

Project pages (hot links): Crayfish; Parks, Beetles; Green space; Food; Outdoor classroom; NPS pollution; Elk; ................................................Kudzu; Clams;

The Kentucky Awake page: Go To

Contact people:

Dr. Carol D. Hanley
Director of Education and Communications
Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment
Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H Youth Development
University of Kentucky
107 Dimock Building
Lexington, KY 40546-0076
Cell: 859-333-8248 or 859-351-3885
Fax: 859-323-8788
chanley@uky.edu

http://tfce.uky.edu/

Ms. Kandris Cotton Goodwin
Programs Coordinator Admin Assistant,
Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment
College of Agriculture
University of Kentucky
107 Dimock Building
Lexington, Kentucky 40546
859-257-3780 office
859-519-8515 cell
859-323-8788 fax
kandris.wunderlich@uky.edu

http://tfce.uky.edu/

Ms. Ann Bartosh
Mathematics Consultant KDE
500 Mero St. Frankfort, KY 40601
office: 502 564 2106
fax: 502 564 9848
Ann.Bartosh@education.ky.gov

Dr. Teddie Mower

Room 126
College of Education and Human Development
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
tel: 502-852-6411
FAX: 502-852-1464

Email: t.phillipsonmower@louisville.edu

Dr. Robin L. Cooper
675 Rose St., Dept of Biology
University of Ky.
Lexington, KY 40506-0225
RLCOOP1@email.uky.edu
Office: Morgan building-B08
Tel: 257-5950
WWW Home page (go to)

www: http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/dept/youth.asp

Bryan Station High
bjrdclff@windstream.net

Dr. Russ Barnett

Email: r.barnett@louisville.edu

www: http://www.floydsfork.org/cr/cr_barnett.htm

Nature of science activity
July 23rd Day 1: Nature of Science

8:30AM ------ Welcome and introductions Carol and Kandris
9:00------------ Discussion of role of laboratory in science based on America's Lab Report (Group)
9:30------------ Overview of nature of science: Lederman's seven themes, NSTA position paper (Carol and Teddie)
10:30---------- Non-project specific example of each of the themes (Everybody leads one)
11:30---------- Project specific examples of some themes (Who ever has one)
12:00---------- Lunch [ provided in RM 205 Biology ]

12:30--------- Drosophila example showing many of the themes, experimental design, and process skills (Robin, Blake and Brian)

3:00----------- Presentation of additional examples (Everyone)
3:30----------- Adjourn

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Day 1 afternoon details: Whole group.
12:30-3:00 pm
Goal: To demonstrate activities for teachers so that they might see a variety of possibilities to use in their class rooms. The general topics can be modified to suit the classroom needs, to develop PDs or to develop lesion plans around such activities.
Timing:
1. 15 min overview "The World of Flies for the classroom" (power point)

Developed at UK Biology.

....... Transgenic flies (heat sensitive) Movies: single larvae; island experiment

....... Video monitoring (Ant farm to maintain a 2D plane) -- paper

....... Heart Rate monitoring in larvae -- 3 ways paper-- effects of agents on HR

....... CO2 measures from larvae -- paper and movies during CO2 and after CO2 is removed ; HR with CO2

....... Different species of flies have different behaviors -- paper (sink or swim)

....... Life cycle of flies (photo ppt)

..........................................Developmental differences (flies lacking ecdysone production) -- paper

2. 20 min. Show procedures to work with flies. (All experiments are designed to be used at various levels of inquiry based learning by the students)
(i) How to gas them, how to determine larval stages, sex of adults, eye color, etc.
(ii) Demo feeding behavior, demo crawling behavior, and heart rate measures in larva. {Note: Can use webcam of TV screen for viewing through computer to projector on screen for a class room}.
(iii) Show adult behavior tubes for olfaction and cages for gustatory experiments . Also can be used to demonstrate which substrate flies will lay their eggs.

3. 1.5 hrs. Teachers break up into four groups and collect data sets or we work on a few examples as a whole.
Group 1: Larval behaviors (mouth hook movements and body wall contractions. Measure over 2 min period 10 flies)
Group 2: Adult behavior (odors with alley way 5 tubes. Measure % of flies attracted to odor)
Group 3: Adult behavior (light attraction with stand up 5 tubes. Measure rate of movement towards light )
Group 4: Heat shock a group of adult flies and measure % affected. Separate groups. ( Count % of red and white eyed in group of flies not moving and ones flying , try to determine frequency in population, think about F1 vs F2 generations raised at high temp).

4. Enter data into excel spread sheets (lab tops or computers). Save data for Day 5 (July 27) when data will be graphed and statistical compared.

July 24- July 25 (Content days 2 & 3): Various projects on going.

July 26 (content day 4):

Literacy of Science with Dr. Penny B. Howell

July 27 (content day 5):
Go over the data from Day discuss data processing for te various projects with Ann Bartosh.
Ann Bartosh will cover the data processing from day 1 on fruit flies.

For those that worked with crayfish data, this day would be good to talk about:
How to graph behavioral observation data ?
What to do with heart rate data ?
What to do with CO2, Nitrate, and pH data ?

ppts: TBA

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