The Web Page of Peggy  Deichstetter

 

   Professional Affiliation
National Association of Biology Teachers
Convention Presenter-Microbiology-1998
Convention Presenter-Biodiversity-1999
Illinois Association of Biology teachers
President -1988
Secretary-1985-88

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Activities:

Powers of  ten  a graphic way to demonstrate size increase or decrease when adding a power of ten.

Visual graph of biodiversity using animal crackers

Concept Map of Biodiversity

Inspiration

Power Point

Netscape - Composer to make a Webpage

 

Biodiversity Hall at the American Museum of Natural History

Canoe trip (to gather water and soil samples to analyze)

Mercer County Lake (to classify toxic and non-toxic diatoms)

A night hike to observe nocturnal diversity

Local forest to learn how to collect leaf litter and note the biodiversity

Bronx Zoo (observing the biodiversity in the Rainforest Exhibit as well as the rest of the zoo.)

 The New York Botanical Garden (observing diversity in plants)

Epidemic Exhibition

 

Rush Holt -the Federal Government and Education

Kefyn Catley-Phylogenetics of Systemics

Sherwood Hall from the FDA-Toxic Diatoms

Scott Mori of the Botanical Gardens-Biodiversity in the Rainforest

Tom Garrell and Mike Levandowsky of  Pace University-Evolution of the three domain system.

A team from the Centers for Disease Control sharing the work of epidemiologists.

Mark Kaelin and Wendy Huebner from Montclair State University

Streak plate

Aseptic technique

Pond water identification

Identificaton of organisms in leaf litter

Microbe Unknown

gram stain glucose fermentation lactose fermentation sucrose fermation starch digestion catalase production DNA digestion Hydrogen sulfide production Indole production Urea digestion casein digestion

Dr. Bruce Alberts, President of the National Academy of Sciences,  Dr. Mike Lemke, Andrew Goldenkranz and me.

DNA and the use of PCR with Dr. Varuni Kulasekera

Research Project: Oil Be Seeing You

Dr. Varuni Kulasekera and me