Workshop Detail: Thursday, July 23, 2009

(6-10): Backyard Bloodsuckers: Biodiversity Bites Back!
presented by Terri Stern, B.S., Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Curriculum Developed by Peabody Fellows Program, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

This 5-lesson Event-Based Science module puts your students in the role of scientists investigating the local impact of two vector-borne diseases: Lyme disease and West Nile virus.

Two of our stated program goals are:

  • to develop innovative standards-based science curriculum resources that use museum collections and other artifacts to investigate biodiversity and vector-borne disease ecology.
  • to build teacher capacity for bringing research in biodiversity and disease ecology into grade 6 through 10 classrooms in an engaging, inquiry-based style.

Trainer

Terri Stern is the Curriculum Specialist for the Peabody Fellows Program at Yale Peabody Museum, and is currently serving on the Informal Science Education committee for NSTA.

http://www.peabody.yale.edu/education/fellows/

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Community Outreach and Education Program of The Center for Research on Environmental Disease

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Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a
Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Center
for Research Resources (Grant No. R25 RR018634)