August 2-4: Forum on Botanical Education & Outreach
August 4-7: Annual Scientific Conference

Pyle Conference Center
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Forum Schedule

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Registration and light refreshments

8:00 am -

Registration

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Concurrent Sessions 1

• How do we integrate Botany into a hierarchical biology curriculum?

• Integrating research into labs: Opportunities with opportunistic species

• Using internships to support botanical teaching and learning

• K-12 teacher professional development programs - Plants in the classroom

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Concurrent Sessions 2

• Evolution and plants in the curriculum

• Expeditious investigative laboratories designed for biology majors

• The small college arboretum: How to establish it and use it for undergraduate teaching

• Kids In Nature: An authentic approach to plant sciences through a partnership effort

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Keynote Address – Dr. Neil Campbell

“Botany education in our schools and colleges: An optimistic forecast”

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch Break

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 3

• Botany: An attractive way to generate biological literacy among non-science majors

• Using bioassays in investigative laboratories

• Supporting undergraduate education and research: How Project Kaleidosocpe (PKAL) and the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) can help?

• Developing inquiry-based lessons in botany, ecology, and environmental science for high school students

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 4

• Transforming core botanical concepts into golden opportunities for student learning

• The Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory (CCLI) Program: Program overview, proposal preparation, and suggestions for faculty

• Starting a green movement: Integrating botanical systems in high school state standards

• Web-based identification guides, reporting, GIS, and databasing for schools and citizen scientists to help study and conserve nature

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Break

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions 5

• Training non-academic, professional botanists: the California experience

• NSF funding: Opportunities and process

• A titanic outreach event: The Blooming of the Titan Arum at the University of Wisconsin

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions 6

• Teaching angiosperm phylogeny: One tree, many stories

• Applied botany: Using the practical aspects of plants to teach science

• Plant science education - Discussion of a new journal

• Academic success across a K-12 multicultural curriculum with exciting botany explorations

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Reception

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Concurrent workshops and field trips (Register for these separately)