Pedagogical Innovations and Enhancement of Undergraduate Botany Curriculum

本科植物学课程的教学创新与加强

• 批准号: 9851577
• 负责人: Anu Singh-Cundy
• 金额: $ 1.59万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-15 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851577&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pedagogical; Innovations; Enhancement; Undergraduate; Botany

This proposal is directed at enhancement of the undergraduate botany curriculum in the Biology Department at Western Washington University. A key feature of this effort is the development of a new course designed to encourage scientific inquiry, stimulate interest, and illustrate the scientific process, even as it teaches contemporary methods in plant developmental biology, including morphometric, cellular, biochemical, and molecular genetic techniques. This course, 'Projects in Plant Development'(Biol 453), is built around four modules of related lab skills, each used to address an 'original', open-ended question. Additional goals are to improve the laboratory segment of Introductory Botany (Biol 203) by adding more quantitative exercises, and to update the Plant Physiology (Biol 479) laboratory, with a focus on investigating the principles of photosynthesis with modern instrumentation, using isolated chloroplasts and whole plants. These revisions are expected to better represent the many dimensions of the discipline, from organismal to cellular, and the several scientific approaches commonly employed, from the more reductionist analyses to whole plant studies. New instrumentation would allow the formulation of more effective pedagogical approaches, and make it feasible to accommodate an expanded, and more contemporary, experimental repertoire. Support is sought for instruments that fall under three broad categories: image analysis software, photosynthesis measuring devices, and equipment for protein and nucleic acid analysis.

该提案旨在加强西华盛顿大学生物系的本科植物学课程。这项工作的一个关键特点是开发一门新课程，旨在鼓励科学探究、激发兴趣并说明科学过程，同时教授植物发育生物学的当代方法，包括形态测量、细胞、生物化学和分子遗传技术。本课程“植物开发项目”(Biol 453) 围绕相关实验室技能的四个模块构建，每个模块用于解决“原始”、开放式问题。 其他目标是通过添加更多定量练习来改进植物学入门（Biol 203）的实验室部分，并更新植物生理学（Biol 479）实验室，重点是使用现代仪器研究光合作用的原理，使用分离的叶绿体和整个植物。这些修订预计将更好地代表该学科的许多方面，从有机体到细胞，以及常用的几种科学方法，从更还原论的分析到整个植物研究。 新的仪器将允许制定更有效的教学方法，并使其能够容纳扩展的、更现代的实验曲目。寻求对属于三大类仪器的支持：图像分析软件、光合作用测量设备以及蛋白质和核酸分析设备。