Equipment for Investigative Laboratories in Animal Physiology

动物生理学研究实验室设备

• 批准号: 9851206
• 负责人: Daniel Janik
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Investigative; Laboratories; Animal; Physiology

This project will substantially bolster the investigative component of three courses in the Biology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: Animal Biology (Biology 102), Human Anatomy and Physiology (Biology 303) and Animal Physiology (Biology 317). In Biology 102 students will be introduced to sensory physiology in the context of an investigative experience. Several conventional laboratory exercises will be enhanced by the proposed equipment in Biology 303. In Biology 317 the equipment will be used for two laboratory modules- one examining neural function and the other examining muscular function. Each module will last several weeks, starting with an introduction to the equipment and some of the basic phenomena and principles. In subsequent weeks, the modules will progress to an exploratory phase in which students will either probe the biological preparation or research the biological literature to develop hypotheses about some aspect of the preparation's function. Students will then prepare written proposals that will incorporate experimental protocols to test their hypotheses, along with some background information from the biological literature and a plan to evaluate their data. They will then perform their experiments and write reports in the form of a scientific paper. The equipment will not only provide students the opportunity to explore important, and well-studied, principles in animal function in a hands-on fashion, but also involve them in the scientific enterprise by allowing them to explore biological phenomena at a level that is beyond the scope of their text book. Through their participation in these investigative labs, students will use and develop various skills that are important not only in science, but other areas as well. They will develop writing skills, quantitative reasoning using plotting and statistical inference, problem solving, and gain confidence in their ability to address complex problems in science and deal with sophisticated instrumentation.

该项目将大大加强威斯康星大学奥克莱尔分校生物系三门课程的调查部分：动物生物学（生物学102），人体解剖学和生理学（生物学303）和动物生理学（生物学317）。在生物学102学生将被介绍给感官生理学的调查经验的背景下。几个传统的实验室练习将通过生物学303中建议的设备得到加强。在生物学317中，设备将用于两个实验室模块-一个检查神经功能，另一个检查肌肉功能。每个模块将持续几周，首先介绍设备和一些基本现象和原理。在随后的几周里，模块将进展到一个探索阶段，学生将探索生物制剂或研究生物文献，以开发有关制剂功能的某些方面的假设。然后，学生将准备书面提案，其中将纳入实验协议来测试他们的假设，沿着一些生物学文献的背景信息和评估他们数据的计划。然后，他们将进行实验，并以科学论文的形式撰写报告。该设备不仅为学生提供了以动手方式探索动物功能中重要且经过充分研究的原则的机会，而且还使他们能够在超出教科书范围的水平上探索生物现象，从而参与科学事业。通过他们在这些调查实验室的参与，学生将使用和发展不仅在科学，但其他领域也很重要的各种技能。他们将发展写作技能，定量推理使用绘图和统计推断，解决问题，并获得他们的能力，以解决科学中的复杂问题和处理复杂的仪器信心。