Biology
Student Workbench: An Inquiry-Based Learning
Environment for Pre-Service Teacher Education
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  Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to
Use Technology
Department
of Education
Illinois State
Board of Education
National Science
Foundation
More about Ed Grid Funded
Projects
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This
is collaborative project between:
University of
Illinois - Urbana Champaign
National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
Beloit College
BioQUEST Curriculum
Consortiuim
The Educational Grid
(EdGrid) Biology Student Workbench (BSW) project
is a growing collection of enhancements to the
Biology Workbench including tutorials and
inquiry-based materials, all of which help
students and teachers conduct meaningful
investigations in molecular biology. The project
specifically addresses a pre-service teacher
audience, and it supports the use of the
inquiry-based learning and teaching approach to
science education. The project objectives (which
are inter-related) are to:
- Develop
inquiry-based bioinformatics curricula in
collaboration and cooperation with the
faculty and students in the teacher
certification programs;
- Integrate the
curricula into science and math methods
courses;
- Disseminate the
curricula nationwide
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Umesh Thakkar (PI)National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, Graduate
School of Library and Information
Science, University of Illinois
217-333-2095
uthakkar@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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Kathy Greene
Departments
of Education and Chemistry, Beloit College
608-363-2012
greene@beloit.edu
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Bertram BruceGraduate School of
Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois
217-244-3576
chip@uiuc.edu
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Sam Donovan
BioQUEST
Curriculum Consortium, Beloit College
608-363-2012
donovans@beloit.edu
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Eric JakobssonNational Center for
Supercomputing Applications, University of
Illinois
217-244-2896
jake@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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