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C. elegans in Education

An Ideal Model Organism in Teaching

C. elegans has grown its popularity in the classroom. At the 12th C. elegans Meeting held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999, several educators presented their uses of C. elegans as an educational model. The reasons they use C. elegans in teaching are similar to why biologists use C. elegans as a model system in research. Read more….

A Survey of C. elegans Curricula (1999)

At the 12th C. elegans Meeting, a teaching workshop was held for educators who use C. elegans in their classrooms. During the meeting, the teachers exchanged their experiences, including how to invoke students’ interest in science. A poster session was held after the teaching workshop, where educators displayed and discussed how they have incorporated C. elegans into their curricula. After the meeting, I met with most of these C. elegans educators, discussed how they used C. elegans, and obtained their permission to include descriptions of their use in my project. –Fong-Mei Lu

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