High School Biology Teacher Workshop
at University of Arizona
Relating Genetics to Everyday Life
June 13-17, 2005

The summer workshop, held on the campus of the University of Arizona, focused on high school biology educators and their use of the activities manual in their own classrooms. It gave teachers the opportunity to do the same experiments that they will be teaching, and practice the lab preparation needed to do the experiments with their students. Kits to support some of the activities in the manual will be provided on a rotation schedule to the teachers who attended the workshop to use in their classrooms.

For additional information, please contact Sharon Schulze at sharon_schulze@ncsu.edu or call (919) 515-9403.

Resources

The CEAC (where we toured the hydroponic gardens)
http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/
They are updating and revising the site and expect the new version to be up soon.

Pat Rorabaugh’s course manual http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/instruction/PLS217/index.htm (scroll to the bottom of the page to links for chapters).
The course manual is freely available and includes excellent resources for basic plant biology and the getting started with hydroponic gardening.

University of Arizona BIOTECH Project http://biotech.biology.arizona.edu/
or you can email Dr. Nadja Anderson at nadja@email.arizona.edu

If you want to contact Dr. Marc Orbach (aka Dr. Fungus), his email is orbachmj@ag.arizona.edu.

Contact information for other presenters:

Betsy Arnold – Herbarium tour on Tuesday of the workshop – Arnold@ag.arizona.edu, website http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/

Karen McGinnis – gave a talk about maize genetics – mcginnis@ag.arizona.edu

Stacey Forsyth – talked about the new science center being developed in Tucson, eager for ideas - forsyth@email.arizona.edu