Using Scientific Knowledge in Life Sciences

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=56 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="011a0a03.jpg"> <div> Using Scientific Knowledge in Life Sciences</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=135 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="21fa0c01dduajq.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Educators Science and Math Institute Ser"><U><B>Educators' Science and Math Institute Series</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About the Series"><U><B>About the Series</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Goals"><U><B>Goals</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Institutes"><U><B>Institutes</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="lesson_plans_prepared_by_esmis_participants_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson Plans"><U><B>Lesson Plans</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id138.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Albums"><U><B>Photo Albums</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ed.mtu.edu/search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ed.mtu.edu/search.htm"><U><B>Search</B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.ed.mtu.edu/search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ed.mtu.edu/search.htm"><U><B> ESMIS</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=424 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="760" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 156 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="052c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER><NOBR><div> ED 523, June 18-23, 2000</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="053c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Based at the Ford Forestry Center in Alberta, MI, K-12 teachers will explore concepts in the life sciences that describe the complexity of the natural world, explain its systems, and find patterns that allow for hypotheses and predictions. This course prepares teachers to help students apply an understanding of cells to the functioning of multicellular organisms; explain how cells grow, develop, and reproduce; use classification systems to describe groups of living things; compare and contrast differences in the life cycles of living things; investigate and explain how living things use energy, analyze how part of living things are adapted to carry out specific functions; how characteristics of living things are passed on through the generations; why organisms within a species are different from one another; explain how new traits can be established by changing or manipulating genes; explain how scientists construct and scientifically test theories concerning the origin of life and evolution of species; compare ways that living organisms are adapted to survive and reproduce in their environments; and analyze how species change through time; explore how organisms interact with the geosphere and hydrosphere.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="633" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life Science Syllabus"><U><I><B>Syllabus</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="lesson_plans_prepared_by_esmis_participants_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lesson Plans"><U><I><B>Lesson Plans</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <I><B>Pictures</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <I><B>Teacher Comments</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><I><B>Links</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id81.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teacher Chat"><U><I><B>Teacher Chat</B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>