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BLC 11 Five Minutes of Fame. Brenda Leicht Department of Biology The University of Iowa. The Lecture Hall for Introductory Biology. How do you make a huge intro course student-centered?. Clicker questions and surveys Student participation in lecture demonstrations The Lab! Small size
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BLC11Five Minutes of Fame Brenda Leicht Department of Biology The University of Iowa
How do you make a huge intro course student-centered? • Clicker questions and surveys • Student participation in lecture demonstrations • The Lab! • Small size • “Active” and “hands on” by nature
Foundations of Biology • 1st course of two required intro courses for our majors • Launched in Fall 2012 • Co-instructed with Bryant McAllister • Both of us had attended HHMI Summer Institute in Summer 2010 • Both of us had attended TILE institute at UI (UI version of Scale-Up) • Laboratory exercises from old first semester course were completely overhauled.
Project-Based Lab Design • Three multi-week Projects • Project 1 – Investigating Cell Organelles and Cellular Metabolism • Project 2 – Transmission Genetics and Linkage Analysis in Drosophila • Project 3 – Investigating Genetics Variation in Populations • Wet Lab – Dry Lab rotation • Two wet labs – experimental procedures first are learned and then performed • Two dry labs – hypotheses are explored, experiments are planned and results predicted; data are analyzed and interpreted; connections are made to lecture content • Guided Inquiry
The TILE Classroom for Dry Lab TILE: Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage