Workshops & Summer Programs
Return-to-Campus Fall 2009
Twice a year alumni of the CIBT programs are invited to a one-day workshop including lab sessions, guest lectures, and opportunities to network and socialize with other alumni.
The Fall 2009 Return-to-Campus will be held on October 3rd.
Sample Activities
- Insectapalooza. Participants registering for this session will visit the adjacent Comstock building for Insectapalooza, Cornell University Enthomology Department’s 5th Insect Fair. There will be fun and educational exhibits for all age-groups, emphasizing the amazing diversity of insects. For more information visit: http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/public/Insectapalooza.html
- Food for thought. Carolyn Wilczynski, Binghamton HS. (6-12). Different regions of the world vary in population growth rates and the distribution of wealth and natural resources. This activity is designed to demonstrate how differences in population and resource use in five regions of the world combine to impact the quality of life for the people who live in each area. Population demographics, land use patterns, energy consumption and wealth are the issues that will be explored to heighten students’ global perspective.
- Tie a Leech: Fly-tying and macroinvertebrate behavior. Ed Engelman, Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego BOCES. Sydney Center, NY. Macroinvertebrate studies are often performed and analyzed to assess the environmental condition of a stream or pond. People who fly fish and tie their own flies also study macroinvertebrate life cycles, feeding, and movement to better understand them and to make flies that suggest or imitate them. This workshop will demonstrate how fly tying may be brought into the living environment, environmental science, and conservation classrooms.
- Museum of the Earth (MOTE) - Teacher Resource Day. Participants registering for this session will spend part of the morning at the MOTE for a day devoted to teachers: free fossils and publications for the classroom & more! For more information visit: http://www.museumoftheearth.org
- Tetrahymena Labs. Donna Cassidy-Hanley, Senior Research Associate. (High School Biology, Regents, Honors, or AP). In these sessions you will be introduced to Tetrahymena, a small ciliated protozoan that is perfect for work in a classroom. We will give you an overview of possible activities that can be done with Tetrahymena. The protozoan can be used to demonstrate predator-prey interactions in a bacterial system.
- In Depth Gene Exploration. Siska Brutsaert, Bard High School Early College. New York, NY. (High School Biology, Honors and AP). This research project takes about 6 weeks to complete. Students work on any human gene that interests them and in the process learn how to use databases and how to read a scientific article. By the end of this project they are experts on several of their gene’s characteristics and physiology.
- Pseudomonas-Plant Interaction. Alan Collmer, Plant Pathology Professor. (High School: LE, Honors, or AP). Plants, like people, get sick, attacked by many different microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, viruses & nematodes. Pseudomonas syringae is a plant-pathogenic bacterium that causes bacterial speck disease on plants. During a series of labs, students will learn about this well-studied plant pathogen.
- Who stole the Russell Stover Bunny? Carol Ippolito, Hope Hall School, Rochester, NY. (5-7th grade). This CSI lab is appropriate for 5-7th grade, but can be adapted for older students. Students use observation skills & the scientific method in order to collect evidence and find who stole the Russell Stover Bunny in a crime scene setting. For a summative activity, the evidence collected is used to write a newspaper article reporting the crime.
