Archbold Biological Station Project FIRST

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Archbold Biological StationProject FIRST

• CONTENTS
• Welcome
• National Goals of NSF Project First
• What is Inquiry-based Learning?
• Where are the five national project FIRST field
  stations?
• The network of colleges and universities within
  5-6 h drive of Archbold
• Archbolds five participating colleges
• Archbolds goals for Project FIRST

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1. Archbold welcome the 5 teams from Florida
universities colleges2. You joined us in a
joint venture designed to use the Archbold
environment to enrich the teaching of
undergraduate ecology 3. We will jointly
explore the biological richness and complexity
of central Florida ecosystems.4. We will,
together, develop and implement teaching
approaches that can convey an understanding of
these ecosystems, and of the scientific process,
to undergraduate classes at both Archbold and at
field sites near your own institutions.
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http//darkwing.uoregon.edu/first/ The national
goals of the FIRST project are to
a. Use field stations as the foci to build and
maintain coalitions of faculty who will implement
and sustain reform in undergraduate biology
education at the field station and in their
colleges and universities. b. Prepare teams at
field stations to become regional professional
developers of biology faculty, including new
faculty and post-doctoral students. c. Enable the
field station teams and associated faculty to
gain experience in inquiry-based science teaching
and learning through workshops that model this
kind of science teaching. d. Enhance faculty's
ability to provide all students opportunities to
gain scientific understanding through direct
experience with methods and processes of inquiry
in the field, and in undergraduate science
courses. e. Facilitate collaboration and
communication among faculty about their reforms
in biology teaching using electronic media.
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Distribution of OBFS field stations in USA,and
the 5 FIRST sites
St. Croix Watershed Research Station
San Diego State University Field Stations
Southwestern Research Station
Hancock Biological Station
Archbold Biological Station
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What is Inquiry-based learning? acquire
literacy in science, engineering, math, and
technology by direct experiences with the methods
and processes of inquiry National Research
Council 1996 Inquiry is a student-centered
method of instruction where the learner designs
the process to be used in resolving a problem,
thereby requiring higher levels of cognition
Kellough, R.D., and Kellough, N.G. 1999
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• Goals for Archbold Faculty Workshops
• Build a coalition of Florida institutions, in
  partnership with Archbold Biological Station, to
  establish and support a regional network of
  faculty and staff committed to enhancing the
  teaching of undergraduates.
• Use the facilities and field sites at Archbold,
  in conjunction with explorations of available
  teaching methods, to increase participants
  understanding of Florida ecosystems, and to
  enhance the ability of participants to convey
  complex concepts in field biology to
  undergraduate classes.
• Develop a series of inquiry-based, field
  exercises that could be incorporated in a wide
  variety of undergraduate courses from
  introductory to upper-level.
• Give participants the opportunity to pose
  interesting questions in the field, access
  scientific information at Archbold, seek
  instructional support, and develop teaching
  strategies to address these questions.
• Encourage faculty and institutional interest to
  use field studies and field sites, such as
  Archbold, as teaching forums, and promote general
  interest in Florida ecosystems and species.

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Five institutions were selected , based on
proposals, from a large pool of regional
universities and colleges within commuting
distance FL Universities 5 - 6 h
commute Community Colleges 2h commute Barry
University Stetson University Brevard
Community College Eckerd College University
of Florida Broward Community College Florida
Gulf Coast University USF New College Sarasota
Central Florida Community College Florida
Institute of Technology University of Central
Florida Daytona Beach Community College Florida
International University University of North
Florida Edison Community College Florida A M
University University of South Florida
Hillsborough Community College Florida
Atlantic University University of Miami
Indian River Community College Florida
Memorial College University of
Tampa Lake-Sumter Community College Florida
Southern College USF at St. Petersburg Manatee
Community College Florida State
University Miami-Dade Community College
Jacksonville University Palm Beach
Community College Johnson Wales
University Pasco-Hernando Community
College Keiser College Polk Community
College Lynn University St. Petersburg
Junior College Northwood University Santa
Fe Community College Nova-Southeastern
University Seminole Community College Palm
Beach Atlantic College South Florida
Community College Rollins College Valencia
Community College Saint Leo College St. Thomas
University
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Archbold Biological Station - Institutional Teams
Stetson University
University of Florida
University of South Florida
Edison Community College
Florida International University