Integrating Investigative Labs into the Biology Curriculum

这个项目将使互动的、以过程为导向的实验教学成为可能，贯穿于整个生物学课程。实验将强调观察、测量、数据的组织和分析，以及假设的制定和检验。学生将使用电泳，分光光度法和离心法来研究生物技术和分子生物学，遗传学和环境生物学的主题。学生将使用联网的Macintosh工作站和基于计算机的仪器来调查各种生理状况，以及处理和绘图数据。新的实验室环境将促进科学探究，并将帮助学生培养批判性思维技能。学生还将使用基于计算机的实验后模拟来加强讲座和实验活动。此外，计算机增强教学将提供灵活性，以更好地满足我们单身和工作的父母的需要。教员将使用麦金塔服务器作为工作站来开发支持实验室材料的模拟。关于这个项目成果的发表报告和演讲将激励其他社区学院以这个项目为模型进行实验室调查。

This project will make possible interactive, process-oriented laboratory instruction throughout the biology curriculum. Experiments will emphasize observation, measurement, organization and analysis of data, and hypothesis formulation and testing. Students will employ electrophoresis, spectrophotometry, and centrifugation to investigate topics in biotechnology and molecular biology, genetics, and environmental biology. Students will use networked Macintosh workstations to and computer-based instrumentation to investigate a variety of physiological conditions, as well as to process and graph data. The new laboratory environment will foster scientific inquiry and will help students develop critical thinking skills. Students also will use computer-based post laboratory simulations to reinforce lecture and laboratory activities. As well, computer augmented instruction will afford a flexibility to better meet the needs of our single and working parents. Faculty will use the Macintosh server as a workstation to develop simulations supporting laboratory materials. Published reports and presentations on the results of this project will stimulate other community colleges to lab investigations modeled on those from this project.