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Base Pair Teacher
Named
MSTA Outstanding High School Teacher of the Year
Jeffery Stokes, Base Pair Teacher at Murrah High School, was
recently named as Outstanding High School Teacher of the Year by
the Mississippi Science Teacher's Association.
Fire Ants Invade
Researchers at the University
of Mississippi Medical Center are working on the Muse of Fire
Project with students and teachers from Jackson Public
Schools.
In the
Southeast, every child is familiar with the fire ant and its
sting," said Rockhold. "That connection is a potent stimulus for
students to understand the fire of the sting. All of these are
questions that children have after the sting. With inspiration
from Shakespeare's play Henry V, we are using the fire ant as
the muse of fire."
-Dr. Rob Rockhold
MUSE OF FIRE
DETAILS
JACKSON
PUBLIC SCHOOLS PRESS RELEASE
WLBT VIDEO: FIRE ANT RESEARCH COULD HELP
FIGHT CANCER
SOAR Student, K. Deloach uses a water bath to collect fire
ant DNA.
(From left) Tim Fizer, Susan Bender, and A. Conic, a
senior Jim Hill SOAR student, carefully add the appropriate
amounts of reagents.
Photos by Peggy Hampton. See additional
photos in the photo gallery below.
PHOTOS FROM THE
SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAM PHOTO GALLERY
Fire Ant
Resources
Wolbachia
Wolbachia website funded by the
National
Science Foundation
Wolbachia Collection
Microbial Life
Educational Collection
Fire Ant
Resources
Photographs
http://www.myrmecos.net
Visit this site to view
vivid photos of fire ants and
other insects.
Mississippi
State Extension Service Fire Ant Information
Indoor Fire Ant Invasions
Controlling Fire Ants
MEM publications and presentations about Ants
(with pdf and ppt links)
Mississippi Ants
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS
High School and Middle School Field Test
Teachers Needed
February and March 2010
BSCS is currently developing two
science education supplements with funding from the National
Institutes of Health. The middle school supplement, Rare
Diseases and Scientific Inquiry, focuses on how scientists use
scientific inquiry to learn about rare diseases and how learning
about rare diseases helps us understand human systems. The high
school supplement, Evolution and Medicine, focuses on how
evolutionary principles inform medical practice and our
understanding of human health and disease.
Field-test teachers will attend a
two-day orientation workshop at BSCS (Colorado Springs,
Colorado) in January 2010. BSCS will pay all lodging, travel,
and meal expenses and teachers will receive a stipend after
completing the field-test process. BSCS staff will make site
visits to selected schools to observe the field-testing process.
If you have questions
visit the website at http://bscs.org
or email or call BSCS Science Educator Paul
Beardsley at 719.219.4177 or BSCS Science Educator Mark Bloom at
719.219.4167. .
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