8

Last day of pre-institute workshops

Participants Arrive

Getting Acquainted

Measuring tools

Field trip to the American Museum of Natural History

Focus questions

9

What is biodiversity?

Powers of Ten activity

Populations and species

10

Meet program evaluators

Break

Break 

10:15

The great debate: Kefyn Catley, Andrew Goldenkranz, Michael Lemke, Michael Levandowsky

Species Diversity

Computer session: Webpage construction

11

Measuring Biodiversity

Why is biodiversity important?

12

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

1

Discuss Standards

Research proposals and microbiology

Canoe trip with Tom Gorrell

2

Pond water activity with Tom Gorrell

The Four Main Threats to Biodiversity by Andrew Dobson

3

Break

Break

3:15

Field study of campus environment

Computer Session: Virtual field trips

4

Biology Library tour

Cookout

4:00-Workshop for the non-20 hour outreach participants.

4:30

Process day: What are we learning?

How do standards help and challenge us?

5

Banquet dinner- welcome to CORE

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

6

7

Computer session: Digital imaging

Open computer session

8

9

Mon July 5

Tue July 6

Wed July 7

Thurs July 8

Fri July 9

.

8

Small group inquiry projects

Rush Holt

Small group inquiry projects

Forest litter biodiversity with Kefyn Catley

Small group inquiry projects

9

10

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:15

Microbiology lab with Tom Gorrell and Mike Levandowsky: Tools and techniques

Field trip to Mercer County Lake with

Microbiology labs: Nutrient cycling and microbe hunters

Microbiology Labs

11

12

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

1

Microbiology Labs: Culture and Identification

Sherwood Hall

Macro genus Research

Forest Litter

Making Bugsuckers

2

Macro genus Research

3

Break

Break

Break

3:15

Microbiology Lab

Policy research

Forest Litter

Policy research

4

4:30

How do we do field work in our classrooms?

Program evalutation forms

Reflection

Reflection

5

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

6

7

Research update

Open Computer session

Computer Session: Sim Earth and Sim Life

Night life biodiversity

8

9

Sat July 10

Tue July 13

Wed July 14

Thurs July 15

Time

8

Bronx Zoo

Small group inquiry projects

Small group inquiry projects

Small group inquiry projects

9

Field Trip to the American Musuem of Natural History: Epidemic!

Introductions: Center for Disease Control and Preventions

10

Break

Break

Break

10:15

 Video and reading room exploration

Microbiology Lab Lab

Epidemics 101

11

Biostats

12

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

1

New York Botanical Gardens

Computer Session

Macro genus research

Cases

2

3

Break

Break

3:15

Policy Research

Disease and Biodiversity

4

4:30

Reflection

Program Evaluation

Reflection

Reflection

5

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

6

7

Open Computer Session

Computer session: Scenarios from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  

Epidemics and standards-based education

8

9

Fri July 16

Sat July 17

Mon July 19

Tue July 20

Wed July 21

Thur July 22

Time

8

Small group inquiry projects

Standards and practices

Genetic and molecular diversitywith Varuni Kulasekera

Time scales and evolution

Research presentations

Biodiversity mindmaps

9

Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Habitat Labs

Extinction rates

Debate

10

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:15

Legionella case study

Bruce Alberts

...Genetic and Molecular ...

Extinction

Research presentations

What did we learn?

11

12

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

1

Drinking water labs

...Genetic and Molecular ...

Microbiology lab

Research presentations

2

3

Break

Break

Break

3:15

Finish Legionella case study

...Genetic and Molecular ...

Research presentations

4

Program Evaluation

4:30

Reflection

Reflection

How my teaching will be different now

5

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Banquet 5-8

Woodrow Wilson School:

next to the fountain on Washington Rd.

6

7

Reflection

8

Farewell party

9

Readings

URLS

Need to Do

Micro labs

pre-prep ideas for participants

Wilson: The Biodiversity of Life (on site)

AMNH/ Biodiversiy Counts

enrichment cultures/isolation technique

30 days to 2 weeks ahead on end step on some

AMNH: Studies in Biodiversity

CDC/ Excite

schedule and process reading assignments (Sunday Seminars?)

soil amoebas/food magnet

AMNH: Studies in Infection

tighten up process periods with probing questions

methanogenic bacteria (break down carbon)/ anaerobes

pond water

bioII: 1-3; 7-14;15-24

Seed Bank and Gene Bank sites

microbes that beak down pollutants (phenol or other)

Mayr: Systematics and the Origin of Species

Costa Rica/tropical biodiversity museum sites

denitrifying bacteria on roots

Scientific American Anthology:Managing Biodiversity

University of Arizona/ Tree of Life

nitrogen fixing bacteria

Gore/

Nat Geo site

water quality coliform counts

isolation of strep from soil

Nat Geographic and NH: 2/99 issue

CD: CAS Life Maps

cloth/leaf breakdown (degradation of cellulose)

temp/pH/optimal counts

throat/skin/gum etc count