Bio 1500e:
Biology & Education-New York Marine Environments (Professor Ross Nehm)

This is a course designed for New York City teaching fellows. It therefore has a double problem:

1. to help students develop their own writing; and
2. to help them learn to use writing effectively in their own classrooms.

The primary objective of the course is to educate students about the ecosystems and biodiversity that exist in and around New York City. The goal of the course is that in their own teaching, students will be able to focus on local resources to teach global biological concepts.

The course is also designed to familiarize teachers with field biology and its use in the classroom.

The WAC portions of this course therefore focused upon:

• using double entry annotation, short paper assignments, and classroom peer review/discussion to develop students' notions of local education, and ways to incorporate it into their curriculum;
• having students draft their own field notebook layouts, so they can learn how to set up note-sheets for their students;
• using directed questions and curriculum planning to help students appreciate the problems and advantages of fieldwork, and prepare them to establish full-fledged fieldwork/writing projects in their classrooms.

Below are three series of assignments developed for Professor Nehm by Writing Fellow Russell Hogg.

Course Projects:

Biology 1500e: Biology & Education, NY Marine Environments

English 210.2: Writing in the Social Sciences

Engineering 339: Advanced Semiconductors

Philosophy 35002:
Nietzsche