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*Experiment Development* The experiments in their initial form need significant revision and adaptation for a variety of reasons:
Development and editing of the activities will begin at the IUPS workshop in April 2005. All workshop participants will have an opportunity to participate in sessions on how to revise cookbook experiments to make them more discovery or project-based, how to teach students about data analysis and data presentation, and other aspects of laboratory curriculum planning and development. These sessions will be run by the co-investigators and senior personnel. Through the selection process described earlier, a set of high-priority activities will be selected for adaptation and development, starting at the IUPS workshop. The co-investigators have created a preliminary template for formatting the activities as we anticipate they will be published. Key components of the template include the physiology and learning objectives of the activity, equipment and supply lists, suggestions for how to do the experiment, expected results and their physiological explanations, follow-up activities, and safety and precautions. We will make a final decision about the template during the workshop. Groups of participants (including members of the core development group) will then actually develop and edit a minimum of 10 activities. These will be presented to the entire workshop for discussion and feedback. Subsequent to the IUPS workshop, core participants will further develop each activity. At least three different individuals will work on each activity. You can discuss these activities at the 21st Century Physiology Discussion Bulletin Board. (Click here and select the 21st Century forum). The APS Education Office will catalog and upload each of the developed activities into the APS Archive of Teaching Resources. Activities will be made available to users in *.rtf (rich-text) format, making it possible for teachers to download and modify an activity into a student-ready exercise. Figures will be prepared in .jpeg format for maximum flexibility and minimal file size. In addition, the Archive page for an activity may contain links to relevant on-line journal articles, taking advantage of the dynamic nature of electronic publication. Each Archive activity also has associated with it a bulletin board upon which comments can be made. As teachers download and implement the activities, their modifications, revisions, extensions, and critiques can be posted to the website. Student versions created by users can be submitted for review and posted to the APS site, thus allowing the 21st Century Project to grow. The dynamic nature of electronic publication requires that someone maintain responsibility for the 21st Century Project collection beyond the three years of the requested funding. The co-investigators and senior personnel on the grant are all active in the APS Teaching Section and the IUPS Education Committee. The team will solicit volunteers from those organizations to help maintain a pool of reviewers and contributors, similar to what is being done for other contributions to the APS Archive. |
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