Undergraduate Biology and Chemistry Instrumentation for Freshman and Sophomore Laboratories

适用于大一和大二实验室的本科生物学和化学仪器

• 批准号: 8853142
• 负责人: Don Plantz
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Mohave Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-08-15 至 1991-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8853142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Biology; Chemistry; Instrumentation; Freshman

The goal of this project is to modernize and improve freshman and sophomore biology and chemistry laboratories on the three campuses of a remote two-year college that enrolls large numbers of Native Americans, many of whom are female. The new equipment being incorporated into the teaching program includes plant growth chambers, marine aquaria and computer-interfaced physiology instrumentation. The environmental chambers enhance the school's ability to conduct General Biology laboratory experiments involving plant competition and animal metabolism. The salt-water aquaria are used to expose General Biology students (most of whom are completely unfamiliar with the ocean) to marine invertebrates. The computer-interfaced physiology instrumenta- tion vastly improves second-year students' opportunities to collect data that quantify the adaptive responses of animals to varying stimuli. The importance of this instrumentation is that its use in undergraduate laboratory instruction provides more effective teaching of scientific methods for understanding the environment. A practical grasp of how scientific methods are used by investigators is important for both science and non-science majors, and environmental topics hold a special interest for this audience. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.

该项目的目标是对一所招收大量美洲原住民（其中许多是女性）的偏远两年制大学的三个校区的一年级和二年级生物和化学实验室进行现代化改造和改进。纳入教学计划的新设备包括植物生长室、海洋水族馆和计算机接口的生理学仪器。环境室增强了学校进行涉及植物竞争和动物新陈代谢的普通生物学实验室实验的能力。咸水水族馆用于让普通生物学学生（其中大多数对海洋完全不熟悉）接触海洋无脊椎动物。计算机接口的生理学仪器极大地提高了二年级学生收集数据的机会，这些数据可以量化动物对不同刺激的适应性反应。该仪器的重要性在于，它在本科实验室教学中的使用为了解环境的科学方法提供了更有效的教学。实际掌握研究人员如何使用科学方法对于科学专业和非科学专业都很重要，而环境主题对这些观众特别感兴趣。受资助机构正在将国家科学基金会的资助与从非联邦来源获得的同等金额相匹配。