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Biological Diversity
ZOO 608 (3 semester hours)
Richard Lee
June 10 – July 2
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. MTR
Location: Oxford
This course provides an introduction to the diversity and classification of microorganisms, plants, and animals for teachers with a limited background in the biological sciences. Local field trips and laboratories will illustrate these subjects and also provide activities and techniques that can also be used in the classroom. Contact: Richard Lee, 264 Pearson, Miami Oxford, 529-3141; leere@muohio.edu.
http://zoology.muohio.ed/cryolab/ScienceEd/SEindex.html.
Ohio educators may be eligible for the TEAM scholarship toward tuition for this workshop. Visit the official TEAM Scholarship website.
Birds Without Borders III-Ohio
IES 499.H/599.H (3 semester hours)
ZOO 499.H/599.H (3 semester hours)
David Russell
May 23 – Oct. 20
Travel Dates: May 24 - 31
Location: Oxford; Lake Erie
Students in our two-part workshop will spend 7 days in Tamaulipas, Mexico over spring break and 7 days in Oxford and along Lake Erie in Ohio, participating in a joint learning experience with students from the university in Mexico about Temperate and Neotropical migrants. Various bird monitoring techniques, such as banding and point counts, will be conducted at the El Cielo biosphere Reserve in Mexico, at our banding stations near Oxford and at the black Swamp Bird Observatory along Lake Erie in Ohio. Classes and training will start in Oxford in January. In addition to learning important bird conservation methodologies, eight students from Miami and eight students from UAT will cross cultural and language barriers to learn about “their” birds in their neighbor’s backyard. As important as technical skills are, the ability to learn from and work with people who speak different languages, have different priorities, and see the world differently from oneself is paramount if we are ever to be successful in preserving our natural heritages. Contact: David Russell, 156 Pearson Hall, Miami Oxford, 529-3179; russeld@muohio.edu.
Environmental Science for Elementary School Teachers
GLG/ZOO 699.V (4 semester hours)
Cathy Edwards
July 13 – 25 (Section A): 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. M-S
July 27 – August 8 (Section B): 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. M-S
Location: Dubois, Wyoming
This Ohio Board of Regents Improving Teacher Quality Program trains elementary school teachers to use Environmental Science to attain Ohio academic content standards and achievement test outcomes. All Ohio elementary school teachers may apply. Contact: Cathy Edwards, 114 Shideler Hall, Miami University, 529-3216; or edwardca@muohio.edu for ESEST application materials.
Evolution for Teachers
ZOO 630.G (3 Credit Hours)
Thomas Gregg
Dates to be announced
A major goal of this course is to familiarize MAT students with the evidence for evolution and the mechanisms of evolutionary change, especially as they relate to anti-evolutionary arguments put forward by creationists. This will emphasize evolution as the manor unifying principle of biology and better prepare teachers to teach evolution as the major unifying principle in an intellectual climate in which it is often difficult to teach evolution at all. It is also a goal, in this computer age, to familiarize the students with several computer models and programs that illustrate some of the basic mechanisms of evolutionary change. Contact: Thomas Gregg, 141D Pearson Hall, Miami Oxford, 529-3370; greggtg@muohio.
Ohio educators may be eligible for the TEAM scholarship toward tuition for this workshop. Visit the official TEAM Scholarship website.
Systematic Entomology
ZOO 699.X (4 semester hours)
David Russell
June 9 – July 3
MWF, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.; TR, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Location: Oxford
This is a graduate level course on the principles and methods of systematic entomology. The course includes frequent 0065posure to live insects, training in collection methods, proper insect curation/identification, and field trips to aquatic and terrestrial habitats round southern Ohio. Contact: David Russell, 156 Pearson Hall, Miami Oxford, 529-3179; russeld@muohio.edu.
Using Animals in the Classroom
ZOO 698.H (2 semester hours)
Richard Lee
June 11 - 27
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. WF
Location: Oxford
This hands-on workshop for teachers will provide detailed instruction on how to maintain a variety of animals including protozoans, invertebrates, and vertebrate animals. Special emphasis will be placed on using these animals in activities that illustrate diverse physiological, behavioral, and ecological principles. Contact: Richard Lee, 264 Pearson, Miami Oxford, 529-3141; leere@muohio.edu.
http://zoology.muohio.ed/cryolab/ScienceEd/SEindex.html.
Ohio educators may be eligible for the TEAM scholarship toward tuition for this workshop. Visit the official TEAM Scholarship website.
Zoology Field Study & Research 2008
ZOO 432/532 (1-12 Credit Hours)
David Berg
5/10/2008 - 8/24/2008
This course will 1) provide the advanced and experienced student the opportunity to focus on an individually developed and designed research project addressing specific questions relating to the field zoology of specific geographical sites and the natural history of animals, and 2) to take the findings of the research and prepare a research report/paper appropriate for publication in the literature.