Teachers' Reactions to Research Settings
Nuclear Power
"Overall, the lab experience was positive, enthralling and educational. The actual process of 'pure' science was quite a revalation."
Computer Modeling in Organic Chemistry
"I found out early I could contribute to the process because of my computer understandings and I was elated I could actually participate despite my background. The scientist was actually the greatest person in this situation. He answered all of my questions with patience and in a language I could understand."
Botany and Plant Hormones
"I can use these experiences as examples in class: The biotechnology, Mendelian inheritance patterns, DNA mapping techniques, bacterial transformation. This has a real use!"
Ecosystem Ecology and Entomology
"It is easy to see the atom as a model, but I had never envisioned the ecosystem as one... As I internalize the meaning of treating ecology as a model, I believe it will affect my instruction to students because the model approach uses different methods rather than a direct observation/fact method."
Microbiology
"Seeing the variety of experiences in the labs gave me a better understanding of what science is broadly. I was forcing the students to think that science is only controlled experiments. Now I can give them a more accurate multiple method view of science."
