This work is supported by NSF
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Activities designed by interns to take back to the classroom
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Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics Summer 2006 |
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The Teacher Internships in Plant Genomics Program is designed to provide pre-service and in-service biology teachers with university-based lab experience in plant genomics at the University of Arizona. Through this program, Teacher Interns are placed in UA plant genomics labs for an eight-week summer research internship. The interns are paired with an experienced graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, or faculty member who serves as the intern’s mentor. During the internship, Teacher Interns are expected to work 40 hours per week for 8 weeks on a component of their mentor’s research. The Teacher Interns also meet once a week to discuss their research and to develop relevant teaching materials (schedule). During the internship, the Teacher Interns are expected to produce a poster, which is presented at a poster session at the end of July, summarizing the project on which they are working.
Meet this year's Teacher Interns
Figure above: Stacey Black loading DNA onto an agarose gel. Stacey worked in David Gang's lab studying interesting chemicals in ginger and turmeric. Stacey teaches at Santa Rita High School in Tucson Arizona.
Veronica Duarte : Presenting at the annual poster session the work she conducted in Rich Jorgensen's laboratory. Veronica is using her research from the internship as part of her Master's in General Biology. She teaches at Sunnyside High School in Tucson AZ.
JR Trevas: This is JR's second year in the internship. Last year JR worked with Rod Wing's group in the Arizona Genomics Institute and learned all about genomic sequencing projects. This year she has put that knowledge to use working with Carolyn Napoli on a project to verify splice sites of annotated chromatin genes. The overall goal is to bring this project into the classroom. JR teaches at Rincon High School in Tucson Arizona.
The objectives for the Teacher Internships in Plant Genomics program are to:
provide Teacher Interns with opportunities to understand the nature of science and gain first-hand experience in scientific inquiry and to better understand and share their ideas about genetics, genomics, and plant biology.
provide Teacher Interns with opportunities to develop and share teaching materials related to genetics, genomics, and plant biology.
provide Teacher Interns with material and equipment support relevant to the development of their new genetics, genomics and plant biology lessons.
provide scientist mentors with opportunities to learn about communicating and sharing their work with science teachers, pre-college students, and the general public.
provide scientist mentors with opportunities to learn how to present content, concepts, and methodologies to a non-scientist audience.
increase accessibility of a diverse group of pre-service and in-service teachers to university-based resources.
provide high school students with information about opportunities and research at the university.
Applying to Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics --Applications for summer 2007 will be accepted starting February 2007, deadline for application is April 29, 2007.
Check out previous years of the Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics: Summer 2003, Summer 2004 Summer 2005.
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Center for Plant Genomics Outreach Program collaboration between Departments of Plant Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology The University of Arizona Nadja Anderson, Ph.D. |