Toucan 2000. 
Hope College, Holland, MI 49423

Objectives
1. Each team will develop an inquiry-based lab exercise appropriate for high school
2. Over the following academic year, members of each team will try their exercise at their home school.
3. Each team will communicate by e-mail to revise the lab in light of experience.
4. Everybody will present an account of one of their most successful labs, exercises or gimmicks.
5. Participants will be able to describe the research Tim Evans is doing.
6. Participants will be able to identify all the components of knowledge one needs to do Evans= research and can explain how that relates to constructing new lab exercises.
7.Participants will be able to describe the elements of inquiry and incorporate those elements into the exercise they are developing.
8. Participants will be mentally refreshed by encountering a stimulating field of biologic research.

Schedule
Tuesday, July 18, 2000
Move in and register
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00 Phelps Dining Hall
8:30 Orientation session. Who we are and where we’re going. Peale 154
9:30 Break
9:45 Formation of teams and team get acquainted session–
        Greatest strengths Peale  154
10:45 Tour of campus and downtown, Donald Cronkite
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 Phelps Dining Hall
1:30 A Phylogeny of a Group of Flowering Plants Tim Evans Peale 154
2:30 Break
2:45 Tim Evans presentation continued Peale 154
3:45 Dissection I What the scientists' universe is like. – Cronkite Peale 154
        Population models for thinking about what the universe is like.
        Hippocrates and Rhinocrates teach us about how to find out.
Dinner 5:00 - 6:00 Phelps Dining Hall
7:00 About Inquiry -- Jewel Reuter Van Vleck Lounge
8:30 Informal group meetings
Thursday, July 20, 2000 Evans’ informal office hours: 2:30 -- 4:30
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00 Phelps Dining Hall
8:30 Chromosomes in Plants: Different levels of inquiry -- 
        Cronkite and Reuter Peale 154
10:30 Watching Ourselves at Work – The Pros and Cons of Inquiry – 
           Group Discussion Peale 154
11:00 Teacher Sharing 1________Donald Cronkite Peale 154
11:30 Teacher Sharing 2________Jewel Reuter Peale 154
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 Phelps Dining Hall
1:30 Dissection II – Cronkite – "Content as Process and the Other Great Genetic Revolution" Peale 154
Bing and Bong at the Hardware Store
The Phylogeny Game
3:00 break
3:15 Other ways to think about phylogeny-Reuter-
     Physiology and Some Technological Possibilities Peale 154
Dinner 5:00 - 6:00 Phelps Dining Hall
7:30 Computer lab orientation VanderWerf Hall
Friday, July 21, 2000 Evans informal office hours C 9:30 – 11: 00 a.m.
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00 Phelps Dining Hall
8:30 Fish Phylogeny Experiment
11:00 Teacher Sharing 3________Peale 154 
11:30 Teacher Sharing 4________Peale 154 
Lunch 12:00 Phelps Dining Hall
1:30 Dissection III Techniques and Instruments
Grass as a Subject of Phylogenetic Inquiry – 
Choose Your Interest Peale Science Center
Chromosomes, Germination, Enzyme Variability, Physiological Variability
4:00 Group Meetings to reflect
Dinner 5:00 - 6:00
7:30 Video Van Vleck Lounge
8:00 Reports of Groups – Where are we headed? What difficulties do we forsee?
Saturday, July 22, 2000
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00 Phelps Dining Hall
8:30 Teacher Sharing 5________Peale 154 
9:00 Teacher Sharing 6________Peale 154 
9:30 Meet in groups to follow up on investigations
Noon Depart for Saugatuck Dunes State Park
(Dune ecosystems to see; a beach to enjoy on Lake Michigan.)
Picnic
5:00 – 6:00 Dinner Phelps Dining Hall
Evening As you wish
Sunday, July 23, 2000
Most of the day is unscheduled. Groups can meet if they wish. Cronkite available afternoon and evening.
Computer lab available; Peale 154 available
7:00 - 8:00 Breakfast Phelps Dining Hall
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
5:00 - 6:00 Dinner
7:30 p.m. How far have we come? How far do we have to go? Second report of groups Van Vleck Lounge
Monday, July 24, 2000 Evans= informal office hours 11:00 - 12:00 and 4:00 -5:00
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00 Phelps Dining Hall
8:30 Teacher Sharing 7________Peale 154 
9:00 Teacher Sharing 8________Peale 154 
9:30 Meet in groups to prepare reports
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Teacher Sharing 9________Peale 154 
2:00 Teacher Sharing 10________Peale 154 
2:30 Meet in groups
5:30 Dinner
7:30 Meet in groups
Tuesday, July 25, 2000 Evans= informal office hours 11:00 - 12:00 and 4:00 -5:00
Breakfast
8:30 Progress of Groups Briefly Reported Peale 154
11:30 Teacher Sharing 11________Peale 154 
11:30 Teacher Sharing 12________Peale 154 
9:30 Meet in groups
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Teacher Sharing 13________Peale 154 
2:00 Teacher Sharing 14________Peale 154 
2:30 Meet in groups
6:00 Final Banquet -- Bestowing the Question Marks Herrick Room
8:30 Meet in groups if needed
Wednesday, July 26, 2000
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00
8:30 - Noon Presentations by groups. Up to 30 minutes for each group. Period of up to 15 minutes for questions and suggestions by the others
Noon - Begin departing for home. Schedule to Airport will be posted
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch if you wish

Participants
Donald Cronkite                       Tim Evans                                 Jewel Reuter
cronkite@hope.edu                  evanst@hope.edu                     jjr01@gnofn.org

Thomas Baugh                          Michelle Jensen                      Tracy Satterthwaite
kittriktlb@ameritech.net             jensemic@sf.k12.sd.us           sattertr@cmi.k12.il.us

Sandra Breitenbach                    Karin Elizabeth Westerling     Ben Tennant
jsbreiten@aol.com                     kwesterling@earthlink.net      tb262801@hope.edu

Evelyn M. Dorsey                       RevaBeth Russel                 
mrsdfrog@goldeneagles.com       revabeth@airswitch.net 

Jeffrey Thomas Hoyer                  Barbara J. Sandage                
jhoyer@d113.lake.k12.il.us         bsandage@chipsnet.com        

Lynn Weber                                Everett Parker Sarah
weberken@pilot.mus.edu            eparker9487eprk@netscape.net