ACUBE 43rd Annual Meeting

University of Wisconsin-River Falls
River Falls, Wisconsin
October 15-17, 1999

Integrating Process and Content: Flexibility for the Future

Friday, October 15th

..1:00 - 6:00 PM Registration Table Ag-Science Lobby

..2:00 - 6:00 PM Pre-Meeting Field Trip: The Natural and Not-so-Natural History of the Kinnickinnic River Watershed (limited to 14 participants) Ag-Science Lobby


Clarke Garry, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

..6:00 - 8:00 PM Registration and Reception Ag-Science 211

..8:00 - 9:00 PM Opening Session Ag-Science 200

Welcome for ACUBE:


ACUBE President: Charlie Bicak, University of Nebraska at Kearney


 Welcome to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls:


Gorden Hedahl, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences


Program Chair: Buzz Hoagland, Westfield State College


Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Mark Bergland, Karen Klyczek, Kim Mogen, University of Wisconsin-River Falls


 OPENING ADDRESS (Public Welcome to Attend) Ag-Science 200


 REARING THREATENED AND DIFFICULT SPECIES


 Jimmy Pichner, Minnesota Zoo, Apple Valley, MN

..9:15 - 10:15 PM Executive Committee Meeting Ag-Science 425

Saturday, October 16th
..7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration table will be open all day Ag-Science Lobby


Please check your membership;
Inquire about audiovisual needs;
General information.

..7:00 - 8:00 AM Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group) Freddy's
Hagestad Student Center

..7:30 - 9:45 AM Biology on the Rocks: Fossil Collecting in the Ordovician Platteville Formation near River Falls, WI Ag-Science Lobby


Michael Middleton, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

..9:00 AM - 12:00 PM SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS Ag-Science 211

..8:15 - 9:45 AM CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS I
1.Accessing and Analyzing Student-generated Data: Integrating Process and Content via the WWW

 Buzz Hoagland, Westfield State College
Green Mac Lab,
Davee Library
2.Using Family-level Biotic Indexing as a Lab Experience with Applicability in Local Environmental Assessment I

 Clarke Garry, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Ag-Science 416
3.Semester Long Creative Projects: An Educational Instrument for Maximizing Student's Learning and Understanding of Science and Mathematics

 Abour Cherif and Jerry Adams, Columbia College Chicago; Stefanos Gialamas and JoElla Eaglin Siuda, Illinois Institute of Art
Ag-Science 327
4.Service Learning in Biology Courses: Making A Difference in Ecology

 Eric Ribbens, University of Evansville
Ag-Science 114

..9:50 - 10:20 AM POSTER SESSION I
(Refreshments available Ag-Science 211)		 Ag-Science 2nd Floor Hall

..10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS II
1.Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Tools and Instructional Strategies to Support Student Inquiry

 Ethel Stanley, BioQUEST at Beloit College
Dave Palmer, Caribiner, International
Mike Kornely, SMART Technologies
Blue PC Lab,
Davee Library
2.Using Family-level Biotic Indexing as a Lab Experience with Applicability in Local Environmental Assessment II (continuation from part I)

 Clarke Garry, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Ag-Science 416
3.Transformation of E.coli with Bioluminescent Plasmids

 Leslie Sutherland, FOTODYNE, Inc.
Ag-Science 419

..10:30 - 11:10 AM CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS I
1.Concept Building Using PowerPoint© in the Classroom

 James Rooney, Lincoln University
Ag-Science 327
2.Science as a Process: A Web-Based Timber Wolf Radiotelemetry Lab for Introductory Biology students

 Mark Bergland, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Ag-Science 114

..11:15 - 11:55 AM CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS II
1.Oceanography Field Course for Missouri High School Teachers: A Report on an Eisenhower Project

 Nancy Sanders, Truman State University
Ag-Science 331
2.Community Based Biology Education - Bringing Applications, Relevancy and Career Choices into the Curriculum

 Janet Yagoda Shagam, Albuquerque TVI
Ag-Science 333

..12:15 - 1:00 PM Luncheon and First Business Meeting Freddy's, Hagestad Student Center

..1:00 - 1:45 PM Integrating Bioinformatics Into the Curriculum Ag-Science 200

 ..Erik Jakobsson, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
..Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology,
..Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
..University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

..2:00 - 5:00 PM SUSTAINING MEMBER EXHIBITS Ag-Science 211

..2:00 - 2:45 PM CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS III
1.Integrating Process and Content in a Workshop Human Biology Course

 Marc Roy, Beloit College
Ag-Science 114
2.Take-Home Examination: Assessment Method or Learning Tool?

 Sujata R. Verma, Columbia College Chicago
Ag-Science 331
3.Team Teaching and Cooperative Groups in the Interactive Learning of Evolution

 Beth Frieders and Wayne Weber, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Ag-Science 327
4.A Brief Talk About Posters, Or Posters As Visualized Writing

 Robert L. Wallace, Ripon College
Ag-Science 333

..2:50 - 3:20 PM POSTER SESSION II (Refreshments available) Ag-Science Second Floor

..3:30 - 5:00 PM CONCURRENT WORKSHOP SESSIONS III
1.Creating Educational Web Pages That Students Will Actually Use

 Thomas J. Volk and Scott T. Cooper, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Ag-Science 114
2.LifeLines and ICBL: Accessible, Investigative Science for Community College Biology

 Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State University
Ethel Stanley, BioQUEST at Beloit College
Blue PC Lab,
Davee Library
3.Genes, Schemes, and Molecular Machines

 Michael H. Patrick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Tim Herman, Center for BioMolecular Modeling, Milwaukee School of Engineering
PC Lab,
Davee Library

..5:05 - 5:45 PM Web Page Committee Meeting Ag-Science 425

..5:45 PM Buses depart for Hudson City Dock Hagestad Student Center

..6:00 - 6:30 PM River Boat Loading Hudson City Dock

..6:30 PM River Boat Departs Hudson City Dock

..6:00 - 7:00 PM Social River Boat

..7:00 - 9:00 PM BANQUET and Second Business Meeting River Boat

..
 Interactive Learning

 ..Mario Caprio, Volunteer Community College

..9:30 PM River Boat Landing, Buses return to River Falls Hudson City Dock

Sunday, October 17th
..7:30 - 8:45 AM Buffet Breakfast (by Interest Group)
(Bioscene editorial board get food, take to St. Croix Room)		 Freddy's, Hagestad Student Center

..7:45 - 8:45 AM Bioscene Editorial Board
Ethel Stanley and Tim Mulkey, presiding		 St. Croix Room, Hagestad Student Center

..8:30 - 10:30 AM ........***Open Balloting*** Ag-Science Lobby

..9:00 - 9:45 AM CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS IV
1.Teaching Biology Through Cooperative Learning

 Mary Haskins, Rockhurst University
Ag-Science 327
2.From the Los Angeles Zoo to the Classroom: Transforming Real Cases via Role-Play into Productive Learning Activities

 Abour Cherif, Sujata Verma, Christine Somervill, Columbia College Chicago
Ag-Science 333
3.Enhancement of Classroom Learning with Outside Activities

 Kathleen A. Nolan, St. Francis College
Ag-Science 114
4.Misconceptions about Ecology: Surprises in Content and Process

 Lynn L. Gillie, Elmira College
Ag-Science 331

..9:45 - 10:00 AM Morning Break Ag-Science 211


 ........***Balloting Closes at 10:30 AM***

..10:00 - 10:45 AM CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS V
1.Using Dinosaur Models to Teach Deductive Reasoning in Comparative Vertebrate Labs

 Nada Chang, University of Illinois at Springfield
Ag-Science 333
2.Into the Woods - A Comparative Forestry Course with Applications to Developing a Managed Forestry Outdoor Laboratory

Kathleen Rath Marr, Lakeland College
Ag-Science 331
3.Applications of Molecular Biology within the Developmental Biology Laboratory Curriculum: Utilization of a Research-Based Learning Approach

 Angela Bauer-Dantoin, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Ag-Science 114
4.What do biological educators get from attending CLASS?

 Michele Wheatly, Tim Wood, Pat Renick, Jeff Vernooy, Jennifer Weil and Catherine Vance, Wright State University
Ag-Science 327
..11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Luncheon and Third Business Meeting Freddy's, Hagestad Student Center

BUSINESS MEETING

Presidential Address:
.....Charlie Bicak, UN-Kearney and
.....Buzz Hoagland, Westfield State College

 Election Results:
.....Nancy Sanders, Truman State University

 Bioscene:
.....Ethel Stanley, Beloit College
.....Tim Mulkey, Indiana State University

 2000 Meeting at Indiana State University:
.....Tim Mulkey, Indiana State University
.....Margaret Waterman, Southeast Missouri State

 Executive Secretary Report:
.....Marc Roy, Beloit College
================= ADJOURNMENT OF REGULAR MEETING =================
..12:30 - 1:15 PM Steering Committee Meeting
Includes newly elected Steering Committee members!		 St. Croix Room, Hagestad Student Center

For additional information, please contact Buzz Hoagland via e-mail at bhoagland@wsc.mass.edu or by telephone at 413-572-5308.


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