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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT & HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE

SUMMER INSTITUTE IN LIFE SCIENCES for K-8 teachers

JUNE 28 – JULY 20, 2007

The Summer Institute in Life Science (SILS) is a 3-4 week hands-on program for teaching K-8 teachers how to bring investigative science into their classrooms. Teachers from schools serving predominantly low income, and disadvantaged student populations are given preference. All instructional costs are covered by the program. Teachers will receive 7 credits BIOL 491.

SILS participants are introduced to open-ended inquiries, learn to ask testable questions, design experiments, explore content-rich topics (such as environmental connections, biodiversity, human body systems etc.), prepare a research poster as a teaching tool, and develop an inquiry curriculum unit to teach during the following school year.

The SILS program provides a site visit to each school during the school year and a one-day follow-up workshop during Winter Quarter. It also supports an e-mail chat group for alumni to troubleshoot teaching queries.
Apply on-line at:

http://protist.biology.washington.edu/teachers/Sils/SILSapp.tpl

or contact:

Helen Buttemer, Program Director, helenb@u.washington.edu

Applications due March 27, 2007

Here are some snail websites from Kathryn:

BackYard Nature

Animal Diversity

Land Snails

Another one

Scandanavian Spice

I re-wrote my old brine shrimp article to make it more aligned with what I want students to know and do in the second Diversity of Life lab. It also doubles as a simple lab sheet for the brine shrimp investigation. Here’s the article: BrineShrimpArticle.doc

DOL Inventory - Alphabetical

DOL Inventory - by box

DOL Inventory - by initial lesson

I wrote this article on brine shrimp for my Diversity of Life curriculum. It covers the interesting aspects, is easy to read, has pictures, and only takes up one page. I’ve also included some things to look for when examining them under a microscope.

Here is the full text (see the Word version to print):
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Here is the Diversity of Life (FOSS) Conceptual Story, in four parts:
Lessons 1-3 | PDF
Lessons 4-6 | PDF
Lessons 7-9 | PDF
Lesson 10 | PDF

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I’ve made a few email announcements at my school asking for snails, and several (4) staff members have brought in critters from their back yards. I currently have two local species, helix aspersa and something else with a yellow shell. If you are looking for a good class pet that supports the Diversity of Life curriculum, look no farther than the land snail.