Welcome 2010 PlantIT Students!

It was great fun to meet you last night, share some of the things we have in common and write some poetry together!

Collaborative poetry writing and reading on the first night.

During this week, you’ll have a chance to share some of your experiences here on the project blog…

2010 Summer Participant Welcome!

We are so looking forward to greeting you in College Station next week!   Are you ready for the heat?  And for the fun of teaching and learning with plant investigative cases?

Ethel and Toni have prepared some fascinating ways to introduce bioinformatics and cotton fibers and rich resources for investigations…

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Summer Institute 2010 – Bioinformatics and plant fiber forensics

Come join us to explore teaching and learning with plant investigative cases!

PlantIT Summer Institute for Teachers will be July 12-23, 2010.

This summer we will focus on cotton to learn about bioinformatics and searching databases for genes of interest such as drought tolerance and fiber color, and further focus on fiber to discover how microscopic and chemical testing answers textile forensics…

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Karen and Deb at NSTA

I wanted to share this photo of Karen and Deb presenting at our NSTA session.  Thanks for your valuable contributions!  And what a good preview of the fun and learning to come in the July Summer Institute.

NSTA Session Thursday 2-3 pm

If you’ll be in the Big Easy for NSTA 2009, join us Thursday at 2-3 pm!  Ethel, Toni, Karen, Deborah, and I hope to see you.  Karen and Deb will share a bit about their experiences using plant cases in with their classes…