This week science woke up in the morning and, instead of making coffee and reading a journal before going to work, stretched. It was one of those “make-me-feel-good” morning stretches, after a long night of sleep….
Tag: inquiry-based-labs
From the Desk of the Director: Tour-guides on a Journey Called Biology
Have you ever watched the campus tour-guides walking backwards, telling cool stories about your university? If a tour group is too big, the people in the back lose interest quickly. Our graduate student lab instructors face a similar challenge: multiple student research groups design, set-up, and analyze different experiments in our teaching labs. It is easy to get too involved with assisting one group while accidentally ignoring others, who therefore do not receive similar guidance on their scientific journey. …