PIBLS Online Seminar

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PIBLS Online Seminar

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Welcome to the PIBLS Online Seminar!

• We are going to show you what PIBLS is and how to
  use it in the classroom to enhance your science
  classes.
• Partnership for Innovation in Biotechnology and
  Life Sciences (PIBLS) has created virtual labs
  and other resources from College and Graduate
  courses for use by 7th 12th grades.
• We will discuss ways of using the labs in the
  classroom and as homework for your students

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What is PIBLS?

• Labs and simulations are available in General
  Biology, Environmental Biology, Histology, and
  Molecular Biology. They are now available online
• There is an Image Gallery of Biology and
  Histology images with hundreds of pictures
• Other resources for teachers and counselors are
  also available
• All this is available both online and on a
  transportable flash drive

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What Labs are available?

• 11 Virtual General Biology Labs
• Created by Dr. Kelly Mizell of San Jacinto
  College for her Biology course
• 10 Virtual Environmental Science labs
• Dr. Carl Zhang, of the University of Houston at
  Clear Lake created these labs for his
  Environmental Science course at UHCL.
• 2 Virtual Histology Experiments and an
  explanation of what Histology is.
• Dr. Larry Rohde of the University of Houston at
  Clear Lake created these experiments from labs
  that his own students take in Histology.
• 1 Virtual Molecular Biology simulation
• Dr. Larry Rohde uses this animation to teach his
  Molecular Biology Students the basics
• Image Gallery with Histology and Biology images
• Dr. Rohde created these images with a Nikon
  microscope and a color mounted camera. His
  graduate students enhanced the pictures with
  labels

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11 subjects are available for General
Biology Introduction - Lab Orientation and
Protocols Lab 1 - The Microscope Lab 2 - The
Cell Lab 3 - Punnett Squares Lab 4 -
Pedigrees Lab 5 - DNA Lab 6 - The Protists Lab 7
- Plant Organs and Organ Systems Lab 8 - Animal
Diversity Lab 9 - The Senses Lab 10 - Interaction
Between Different Species
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Examples of the animation in General Biology
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DNA Animations
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There is an animated Phylogenic Tree
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The animations explain the concepts
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The interactive activities help explain concepts
Animations and diagrams are available for every
subject
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10 Environmental Science Labs 10 Environmental Science Labs
  Lab 1 - The Foundation of Environmental Biotechnology
  Lab 2 - Composting
  Lab 3 - How Sewage from Your Home is Treated
  Lab 4 - Modern Sanitary Landfills
  Lab 5 - Bacterial Detoxification of Hazardous Chemicals
  Lab 6 - Phytoremediation
  Lab 7 - Fungus Based Environmental Clean-up
  Lab 8 - Plant Based Environmental Clean-up
  Lab 9 - Liquid Chromatography
  Lab 10 - Biomolecular Analysis
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Learn the fundamentals of Environmental
Biotechnology
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You can learn the facts about Composting with
clear animation

• Animations and interactive activities help
  clarify the concepts
• Every lab has a quiz at the end

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Reinforcing the Concepts

• Many animations and interactive activities help
  reinforce the knowledge

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Learn about Landfills

• More interactive activities and quizzes will get
  the students involved in learning.

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You can have the students go online and take
quizzes as practice

• Or give the quizzes to your students as homework.
  
• All the Environmental Science quizzes are
  downloadable and available on the Teacher
  Resource Page

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2 Simulated Histology Experimentswith
interactive animations

• Histology
• What is Histology?
• Experiment 1 Tissue Fixation and Staining
• Experiment 2 Cell Culture Fixation and Staining
• Maximize window for best effect

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Interactive Experiments

• You click on the forceps to start the experiment
  and start the timer in a realistic histology
  experiment that college students would perform in
  lab.

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Molecular Biology
Molecular Biology
DNA Sequencing
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Discover the genes that DNA represent!

• Using the General Biology Lab 5 as a base, this
  simulation shows how a DNA sequencer reads the
  DNA.
• An example of a gel is shown
• The student can then read a real gel for practice

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The animation shows how DNA is loaded onto a
sequencing machine to be read
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Then, reading the gel gives students a key to the
NCBI Blast website so they can look up what genes
the DNA represents.
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Image Gallery
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Hundreds of Downloadable Labeled Pictures, with
unlabeled pictures and blanks too.
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Here teachers are helping teachers

• 2009 Science and Biology TEKs are available to
  help you develop lesson plans
• Many Lesson Plans using PIBLS were created by
  other teachers and are available here
• Environmental Science quizzes and General Biology
  handouts that go with the labs are available to
  download
• Other resources on the web as well
• Such as links to The Inner Life of a Cell made
  available online by Harvard University and
  Siggraph Animation

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Podcasts were created by Space Center Houston and
Aerospace Academy

• Designed for middle school and high school
  science teachers all over Texas for use in the
  classroom in aerospace subjects.
• 8 podcasts on 5 science subjects are included
• Human Physiology in Space Flight
• Biotech Careers
• Bioreactors
• Space Geography
• Newtons Laws of Motion
• Now available on the PIBLS website only (not
  available on the flash-drive).

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• Why do I need to study this science stuff?
• If you ever get that question heres the answer
  The Career Guide!

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• Details of current jobs that are available for
  Aerospace and related industries
• What schools offer the degrees in these subjects?
• How much they can make once they get a job?
• All this, and games for students to play that
  will help them retain the information.

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The Career Guide has connections to UTMBs Texas
Hot Jobs
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Contacts for PIBLS and Evaluations

• Evaluations by other teachers and students are
  available on the Evaluations page
• Contact information for all the creators of PIBLS
  available on the Contact PIBLS page.
• If you have any questions, you can contact me at
  jon.willard_at_sjcd.edu

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Whats next?

• PIBLS was a pilot program. Now we want to extend
  the subjects to include labs in all the STEM
  subjects.
• Science and Math Advancing Research and Teaching
  (SMART) NSF(MSP) grant is being written currently
  to continue the PIBLS pilot program.
• Join the Teacher Advisory Committee
• Choose the subjects we will create labs for next
• Help develop the content of the labs
• Make the labs more useful to teachers and
  students
• Contact jon.willard_at_sjcd.edu to be a part of
  this dynamic program

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Homework

• The homework for this seminar is to create 2
  lesson plans using PIBLS and send them to
  jon.willard_at_sjcd.edu . Upon receipt of these
  lesson plans 50.00 (in addition to the
  participation scholarship of 50.00) will be sent
  to you along with a certificate of completion (3
  CEU hours). Deadline for this is December 15,
  2009. (After that the grant will end, although I
  will still be around to answer your emails.)

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Watch our Website

• http//pibls.sjcd.edu for more changes