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Kathleen
Moran
CEIRP Project
During the the
2003 Fall semester I worked in two Living Environment science
classes at Ithaca High School. The classes were very different
as one was composed of students with special needs while
the other was a more advanced class. In both classes I assisted
the teacher in carrying out labs and helping the students
understand new and complicated material.
For the more advanced
of the two classes, I rewrote a college level lab on photosynthesis
and starch production, catering it specifically for a Regents
level living environment class. The teacher and I did the
lab with all her classes over a two day period. During the
spring semester I am going to continue working in both classes.
In the more advanced class I am going to be helping the teacher
redesign her ecology unit. The template that I would like
to follow for creating labs is as follows:
- Present students
with an ecological hypothesis.
- Have
students carry out an experiment/activity that tests the hypothesis
- Students
will interpret their results to decide whether or not the results
support the hypothesis.
In this way students
will learn that ecology is not a collection of facts but,
rather, a collection of our best hypotheses.
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