No. 4
| To view this email as a web page, copy and paste this link into your browser. Fall at mid point, Feature on Pollination and Science TalkIn this issue:
Mid point of Fall Session There is one month remaining in the official fall session. With 20 classes now online, the session is humming! This week we said fond farewells to the first of the classes to wrap up. Next week, we anticipate 4 more schools to come online and begin their projects. A few schools needed to withdraw from the session and will probably join us later this spring or next fall. Featured Teacher
Featured Mentor
Featured TeamsValdine McLean and her Pershing County High School class are also using the pollination module, which she and Beverly Brown have been instrumental in writing. Here are a few of the student discoveries: Science TalkJust as many students have had little previous experience designing science experiments, talking about science is often a new experience. The more good science talk, both in classroom discussions and "thinking out loud" in online posts, the better! | Meet the Teachers and Schools Middle schools investigating seeds High schools investigating seeds High schools investigating photosynthesis Middle & High schools field-testing pollen & pollination High schools field-testing genetics with Arabidopsis High schools field-testing genetics with Brassica *teachers attending the 2009 Summer Institute Colleges & Universities Contact the Team
Jennifer Potratz Project Coordinator. 8-5 Central. 314-577-9535 Email logistic or technical questions to the team: psteam@plantingscience.org. |
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Betty Indriolo led her students from St. Sebastian in collecting data on pollinator movements among plants in their school garden and examining pollen slides. Betty's use of the Discussion Forum greatly aided the mentors in following classroom happenings, which was critical as the students came online after they collected pollinator movement data. Betty also provided valuable insights on protocols.
Kate Hertweck has been a PlantingScience mentor since 2006. She and Kelly Gillespie are graduate student members of the Master Plant Science Team who are shadowing the pollination module this session, as Nick deBoer did last spring. Kate's dissertation research at University of Missouri, Columbia focuses on chromosome evolution and plant hybridization.
"Yesterday we learned that pollen tubes are small thin tube shaped objects."