Susan Dorfman's blog

Index

Mini -Project Number One

Sudoku Journal

Susan's Introduction

Mini-Project Number Two

Reflections on School Year 2010-2011

Stipend

Changing the Story

Background:

Grant Proposal from Susan Dorfman

AP Biology and the Genographic Project

To be done

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Mini Project #2:

Micro and Macro Communication: Unification in Purpose

 Like other participants in the institute, I am an educator. I have enjoyed the teaching role all my life. I went to a K through 8 inner city public school in Phila and then to a large inner city high school, followed by matricultion at a large city college, Temple U. in Phila. I lived at home and spent my free time working to earn money at various jobs on and off campus. During all these years, from grade 4 on, I helped other students in my classes. In college, I tutored and also volunteered as a reader for the blind. To put my husband through professional school, I worked as a technician in a research lab at UPENN.

Index

Mini -Project Number One

Sudoku Journal

Susan's Introduction

Mini-Project Number Two

Reflections on School Year 2010-2011

Stipend Proposal

I chose to use a Biology Labs On-Line activtiy because I have used The Fly Lab in the past and the company claims that these virtual labs are inquiry based. Initially, the Fly Lab seemed exciting in that it was a virtual lab that permitted an investigation into the genetics of the Drosophila melanogaster without using the flies and in a time frame possible with our schedule. After several years, I noticed thet students were easily frustrated by the technical difficulties of doing a lab online and became bored with the tediousness of the activity. I decided to investigate another online lab, Population Genetics, according to the criteria we set in this Institute for open-ended inquiry exercises.