WEST Biology: this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program

team WEST biologyL-R: Susanna Honig, Regina Spranger, Sabrina Shirazi, Kelley Voss

VenueWEST Biology strand

Team Members:

Susanna Honig (Design Team Lead): Postdoc, Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Kelley Voss: Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Regina Spranger: Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Sabrina Shirazi: Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Audience: 21 undergraduates

Activity NameEnergetic Transfers: Using knowledge of energy flow in an ecosystem to create models and then refine models with data to generate hypotheses

Activity Summaries:

Regina Spranger's Activity Summary write up.

Sabrina Shirazi's Activity Summary write up.

Funding for this team provided by: HHMI, GAANN fellowship