Improvement of ND Tribal College Chemistry Instruction

描述（由申请人提供）：在北达科他州的部落学院是必不可少的，以满足教育卫生专业人员对各自的保留的需求。 化学是几乎所有卫生专业的必修课，但经常限制进入这些领域的学生数量。 对内容不熟悉可能是表现不佳的原因之一。 这个项目将设计实验，使化学更有趣和相关的美洲原住民学生。 五个部落大学化学讲师沿着化学教授从北达科他州州立大学和湖区州立学院，将开发文化敏感的讲座和实验室课程材料，为他们的介绍有机和生物化学课程的基础上，传统的植物，包括那些用于医药。 他们还将添加课程元素，他们的介绍无机化学课程围绕水分析的高兴趣领域建立。 参加这门课程的学生将被监视三年。 化学教师和六名感兴趣的美国原住民学生每年夏天将在北达科他州州立大学会面，设计和测试使用植物和保留沃茨的新实验室实验。 他们将收集所有部落的长老所熟悉的植物，并雇用这些长老教他们如何识别，收获和使用植物。 他们将在会议上介绍他们的工作。 目前在北达科他州州立大学任教的一位化学教授将指导暑期学院，并将通过交互式视频网络（IVN）向所有部落学院提供第一门有机和生物化学入门课程。接下来的两年将由部落化学讲师在IVN上授课。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The tribal colleges in North Dakota are essential for meeting the needs of educating health professionals on their respective reservations. Chemistry, a required course for nearly all health professions, often limits the number of students who enter these fields. Lack of familiarity to content may be one of the reasons for poor performance. This project will design experiments that make chemistry more interesting and relevant to Native American students. The five tribal college chemistry instructors along with chemistry professors from North Dakota State University and Lake Region State College, will develop culturally sensitive lecture and laboratory curriculum materials for their Introductory Organic and Biochemistry courses based on traditional plants, including those used for medicine. They will also add curriculum elements to their Introductory Inorganic Chemistry courses built around the high interest area of water analysis. The students who take this course will be monitored for three years. The chemistry instructors and six interested Native American students will meet each summer at North Dakota State University to design and test new lab experiments using plants and reservation waters. They will gather the plants that are well-known to the elders of all of the tribes and will employ these elders to teach them how to identify, harvest, and use the plants. They will present their work at conferences. A chemistry professor who currently teaches at North Dakota State University will direct the summer institutes and will also deliver the first Introductory Organic and Biochemistry course over Interactive Video Network (IVN) to all of the tribal colleges. The following two years will be taught over IVN by a tribal chemistry instructor.