The 2001 Toucan Project Follow Up with Students

  
Pictures of The Follow Up Project

In Cooperation with Hope College Upward Bound

Fourteen teachers met for a week in a think-tank environment to devise inquiry lessons on Water Quality.  They learned how to integrate technology into their teaching through the use off CBL-based sensors, and they also mastered the construction of web-based lessons, which anyone can use who wishes to.  (See them here.)  Now the week-long workshop is over, and the Toucan Project goes into two new phases:  Virtual instruction through use of Blackboard and Tapped In and a one week follow up with students.  This page describes the follow up.

Lessons we Taught and
When we Taught Them

Monday, July 16

Upward Bound Biology

EKGs and You
Frog Survival and You
Energy Pyramid and You
Sexlinked Traits with Punnett Squares
Extinction
Shoe We Classify?
FrogBugs for Dinner, Anyone?

Chem Camp and Upward Bound 

Experimental Design with the Green House Effect
Water Activity Fair--Up Up and Away, Bounty the Quicker Picker Upper, Boiling Water in a Paper Cup
The Bubble Contest

Upward Bound Physical Science

Tuesday, July 17
Raising Radishes on the Reuter
Learning to Use Sensors with Ice Melts

Wednesday, July 18
Virtual Stream
Investigating Water Quality in Streams: Mainstreaming into Education

Subsurface Water Contamination

Thursday, July 19
Box Stream Data Sheet

Friday, July 20
Acid Rain
Bing and Bong Review Water
Lake Macatowa Data Sheet

The Follow-Up Teachers

Tom Baugh, Rochester
Rochester High School, Rochester, Michigan

Tom Haren
McKinley Sr. High School
Canton, Ohio  

Jane Maczuzak
Lake Ridge Academy
North Ridgeville, OH

Kristen Lamers, Holland
Biology Department, Hope College

Jo Anne Staiti, Massachusetts
Westwood High School
Westwood MA

The Follow-Up Staff

Donald Cronkite, Director

Nancy Hein, Inquiry-Technology specialist

Jewel Reuter, Inquiry-Technology specialist

The Follow-Up Students

2001 Upward Bound Biology Class

2001 Upward Bound Physical Science  Class

2001 Little Chem  Club Water Quality Class

What We Taught

How We Taught/Our Secrets to Teaching These Lessons with an Inquiry Approach
Small groups
Small Interactive Lessons
Using Outside as a Classroom
....etc

What The Follow-Up is Teaching Us

Gathering Ideas from Each Other and Making a an Improved Lesson
Sharing Observations about Teaching Styles
...etc

Pictures of the Lessons and Us Working with the Students

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