Margaret Waterman, Ph.D.


 
 


Professor

  Biology Department 

and
Director
Linda Godwin Center for Science and Mathematics Education
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701

Phone and Email:
mwaterman@semo.edu
Biology
: (573) 651-2381
    
Godwin Center:  (573)  651-2516

 

  Courses:  Spring 2008
 

  BS 218: Biological Science A Process Approach

  SE 320: Techniques of Teaching Science 

  SE 370 Field Experience: Science Teaching

  ST 660: Advanced Topics in Science Education

  Link to   Other Semesters

Coming up!  MyPlant IT
NSF funded teacher workshop at Texas A & M

      Check out the Participants' Projects

2008 BioQUEST Workshop
At Missouri Botanical Garden and Southeast
For college faculty


July 7-18, at Texas A&M
For high school biology teachers

   Scholarship               Link to Vita

To be useful outside the classroom, science curriculum should be accessible and meaningful to learners and actively engage them in using  tools of scientific inquiry.   We have developed Investigative Case Based Learning as one approach to accomplish this.

    Investigative Case Based Learning
 

      Biology book using ICBL approach:

Casebook Resources


Biological Inquir
y: A Workbook of Investigative Cases, Margaret  Waterman and Ethel Stanley. Second Edition, Benjamin Cummings, 2008.

 

   Other publications about ICBL


Teaching & Learning Projects


I collaborate extensively with the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, a leader in undergraduate science education.  Click the logo to learn about the many online resources for supporting students as they actively investigate biology, including simulations and models, investigative cases, and rich problem spaces.

SoTL Fellows Program Southeast faculty designing and assessing impact of their teaching innovations on student learning. 
New Fellows Powerpoint

Environmental Science Case Studies 

Introduction to Case Based Learning 

Plant IT:  Careers, Cases and Collaborations  

For High School teachers and students.

Oxford College Project

 

 

 

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