Meet Your Probeware Co-Host....
Bob Goodman
Hunter College High School
71 East 94th Street
New York, New York 10128
(212) 860-1250
email: AERGoodman@aol.com
The use of probeware in a high school laboratory is one of the
most exciting developments in science education. I am a firm believer
that students learn the most when they do science. To me that
means making hypotheses, designing controlled experiments, collecting
and analyzing data, drawing conclusions and then taking it at
least one step further. Probeware provides students with a tool
for conducting sophisticated exciting experiments and this leads
to further investigations where students will have the opportunity
for self discovery.
I have been teaching biology for 22 years in a public school in
New York City. Although my happiest moments are when I am with
my students, I have also enjoyed, and spent considerable time
outside the classroom developing curriculum. I have written an
in house laboratory manual for high school biology and developed
a number of laboratories and activities for ecology studies. One
of those activities, "The Animal Communication Treasure Hunt"
will be described in the April 1996 issue of the American Biology
Teacher. In 1993 I received a Sci-Mat Fellowship to develop an
interdisciplinary curriculum making connections between ecology
and constitutional law. I presented this material at the National
Association of Biology Teachers Convention in Boston, 1993. I
have also developed a number of materials using insects and in
December of 1994 I received the Secondary School Education Award
from the Entomological Society of America at their National Convention
in Dallas.
More recently, I became interested in probeware and started to
develop laboratories using probeware which interface with graphing
calculators. I presented some of the activities which I designed
at the NABT National Convention in Phoenix this past November
and at the T^3 National Convention in Jacksonville this past March.
I have also helped design week long workshops using the CBL System
in Chemistry and Biology which are to be offered this summer by
T^3.
I am currently writing a laboratory manual which will contain
15-20 CBL labs and another 15-20 nonCBL labs. Some of the materials
on this forum are excerpted from the manual which is being designed
to support a full year high school biology course. It is approaching
completion.
I hope that the skills Dave and I have, complement each other
and that others will join us. I am confident that we have only
begun to discover the creative uses of these most wonderful instruments.
Bob Goodman (March, 1996)
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