Brenda Leicht Department of Biology The University of Iowa

 Clicker questions and surveys  Student participation in lecture demonstrations  The Lab!  Small size  “Active” and “hands on” by nature

 1 st course of two required intro courses for our majors  Launched in Fall 2012  Co-instructed with Bryant McAllister  Both of us had attended HHMI Summer Institute in Summer 2010  Both of us had attended TILE institute at UI (UI version of Scale-Up)  Laboratory exercises from old first semester course were completely overhauled.

 Three multi-week Projects  Project 1 – Investigating Cell Organelles and Cellular Metabolism  Project 2 – Transmission Genetics and Linkage Analysis in Drosophila  Project 3 – Investigating Genetics Variation in Populations  Wet Lab – Dry Lab rotation  Two wet labs – experimental procedures first are learned and then performed  Two dry labs – hypotheses are explored, experiments are planned and results predicted; data are analyzed and interpreted; connections are made to lecture content  Guided Inquiry