BRINGING BIO SCIENCES INTO MOTION

BioMo

Contents

Final Documentary of “The Making of My Project”

Organization name / Logo / and Slogan

Target Audience Statement Educational Design Strategy

Statement Market Research Media Strategy Background content and coursework

Contents (Planned for June – November 2014)

Science Education Media Product Press release for Project Product Advertisement for Project Product Lesson Plans and User Manual Assessment tools List of educational standards

assessed Literature references

Final Documentary of “The Making of my Project”

Organization name, logoand slogan

Target Audience Statement

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.”

– John H. Clarke

BioMo is aimed at high school students and teachers.

It will serve as a virtual guide for the most common biological science laboratory techniques that are used widely in research. The videos and animations for these techniques would be accessible through the BioMo website along with guidelines for inquiry-based learning.

Target Audience Statement

Teachers in the traditional classroom have very less time for interaction with students.BioMo would serve as a helping hand for teachers so that classes would be more ‘humanized’.

Courtesy:www.knewton.com

Target Audience Statement

Courtesy:www.knewton.com

Target Audience Statement

Different students learn at different pace. Some will grasp the concepts in one class while others won’t.

BioMo would serve as their guide to reflect on the techniques without relying on the teacher so that they would have their own processing time.

Courtesy:BSEMD Commercial

Educational Design Strategy Statement

The repercussions of not having a strong foundation in biological science laboratories are many. There’s a lack of strong background in these techniques that are usually taught in high school biology classes, which are in turn reflected in poor research understanding in higher studies.

BioMo implements the principle of flipped classroom approach and inquiry-based learning to provide a virtual guide for learning biological science laboratory techniques.

Educational Design Strategy Statement

Flipped Classroom Approach

The flipped classroom approach would be carried out through the use of videos and animations. The at-home lectures would provide students with the necessary processing time in preparation for their in-classroom activities/laboratory classes and discussion with peers and teachers.

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Educational Design Strategy Statement

Inquiry based learning (IBL)

The IBL approach would be implemented through guided questions which would lead to different axes of understanding in the student’s mind.

All students have access to supportive, excellent undergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology, and all students learn these subjects by direct experience with the methods and processes of inquiry. (NSF, 1996, p.6)

Problem-solving skill development Learning disciplinary content Application of concepts to new problems Student-ownership development

Market Research

www.jove.com

www.khanacademy.org

Market Research

www.sophia.org

http://www.techsmith.com/education-flipped-classroom.html

Media Strategy

The success of a flipped classroom approach depends on effective media content.

The media techniques that I would be integrating in my project are high resolution videos and animations.

As I complete more of my project, my media strategy would evolve and be ready by the end of September 2014.

Background content and coursework

Developmental Biology Ecology Conservation biology Experimental evolution

The science content of the project would be based on the foundation of the biological sciences coursework that I’ve completed in the past 3 quarters.

The basic science is based on ecology. Knowing our surroundings and the biological life around us lies at the crux of our biological studies.

Background content and coursework

In the wake of the global changes in the modern world it is imperative for us to know about the theories and hypotheses behind evolution and conservation biology. Human beings have to understand and start empathizing the world they are surrounded by.

To understand the two sciences, we need to go back to the beginning of the world, of how we came to be. Developmental biology, though a pretty complex topic to be dealt with in high school levels, will be sprinkled onto different parts of the lessons to give the students a basic foundation of the world of development which only starts with reproduction.

Science Education Media Product

Science Education Media Product

Science Education Media Product

Science Education Media Product

Science Education Media Product

Press release for Project Product

Flyer with some examples of the techniques covered

Would also include:

Website URL

Contact information

Target audience

Mission of the Organization

Planned to be done by October 2014

Advertisement for Project Product

30 seconds video showcasing the laboratory techniques and the way you can use BioMo

Will mention the advantages of using the product

Planned to be done by October 2014

Lesson Plans and User Manual

Lesson Plans

User manual

How to use the flipped classroom videos and guidelines on IBL questions to be asked in class

Planned to be done by September 2014

Flipped classroom

lecture

Classroom laboratory experiment

Post-class assessment

Pre-flipped class assessment

Assessment tools

CAT (Classroom Assessment Techniques)

Background Knowledge Probe

RSQC2 (Recall, Summarize, Question, Connect and Comment)

Blendspace (https://www.blendspace.com/) ,

Socrative (http://www.socrative.com/) Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

Bloom’s revised Taxonomy

List of Educational Standards Assessed

NGSS Started working on Grade 10 Practices will be focused on

AP Biology

Planned to be done by September 2014

Literature references

In Progress. Planned to be completed by August

2014.

Questions and Concerns?

Thank You