STEM Ed Announcement: Cell Model Workshop

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is not a UMass Amherst program.
Contact information is below.
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A Workshop on Cell Models for Teaching and Learning about Cells in
Biology

STCC is proud to offer a workshop to culminate the end of a National
Science Foundation project on teaching and learning about cells in
biology.  This workshop will provide participants with new plastic
teaching models and training on how to incorporate them into biology
classes.

The workshop is scheduled for Friday, June 11, 2010, from 9:30 - 3:00.
 College, high school, middle school, and upper elementary school
biology teachers are invited to participate.  A set of cell models,
lunch, and a $100 stipend will be provided.  10 PDPs can be earned
through this workshop (plus an additional project to be completed at
home) for anyone who is interested and who can stay until 3:30.

What is new about these models?  They were designed using a Universal
Design for Learning (UDL) approach.  UDL, which will be discussed at
the workshop, is a way to include more learners in the learning
process.  The models are dynamic, interactive, tactile, appropriately
colorful, and engaging.  Students can use these models to create their
own model of any particular cell of interest in the classroom.  Use of
these models can transform learning about cells from copying a diagram
or memorizing a list into an interactive, fun, and applied classroom
activity.

Please register for this workshop at: 
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFh2MkktZTRnbHdRTWlRWDVSblRMd3c6MQ

We have a limited number of participants, so please register soon.

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail us at
Tamarkin@STCC.edu .  Thanks!

This project is supported by the NSF Course Curriculum and Laboratory
Improvement (CCLI) Program (DUE #0618182).