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Grounding in Botany: Integrating Plants into the High School Science Classroom

Grounding in Botany offers high school science teachers an exciting and challenging professional development opportunity. Grounding in Botany bridges between the widely adopted Wisconsin Fast Plants program and current investigative research topics using the related species Arabadopsis.

This four-week summer institute and five follow-up workshops bolsters the professional skills of science teachers who are looking to enrich their classroom with inquiry based lessons using plants. These lessons will not only incorporate state and federal standards for biological sciences, but expand on them, including state-of-the-art techniques and information. The course follows the life cycle of Fast Plants, with lectures and hands-on labs reflecting the developmental stage of the teachers' own experimental plants, from seed to seed.

Participating teachers will receive $1,500 stipends and $500 classroom grants. Grounding in Botany is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.

The United States Department of Education has created the Teaching American History (TAH) program to raise student achievement by improving teacher knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American History.

TAH grants are available to school districts who in turn partner with research institutions like The Huntington to provide teacher training and scholarly seminars that enable teachers to expand their students’ awareness in American History.

To date, The Huntington Library has partnered with seven school districts under the TAH program, to develop lesson plans, provide scholarly lectures, and develop classroom and resource materials for the teachers.

Lesson plans developed through this grant in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District are available online, under Library lesson plans.

This workshop series is part of a 5 year educational outreach initiative program administered through the National Science Foundation on a “Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research” grant called the Computable Plant. In 2006-2007, the Computable Plant is combined with the Grounding in Botany program to offer teachers an exciting and challenging professional development opportunity.

Grounding in Botany 2005 & 2006

Grounding in Botany is a hands-on, fun, intense, and exciting professional development opportunity for high school teachers. In 2006-2007, Grounding in Botany joined forces with the Computable Plant program to offer teachers an exciting and challenging professional development opportunity. Grounding in Botany is supported by a generous grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.




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