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Itasca Science Teachers Institute (ITI)

ITI is housed at the Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories, and creates an ongoing learning network for science teachers in northwest Minnesota. The teachers return regularly to learn cutting-edge scientific methods, borrow lab equipment for their classrooms, and conduct research. Teachers receive graduate credit for being a part of the institute.Immunoflourscences Micropipettingcollecting bear data

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Past presentations

  • Plant Bio-energetics: Photosynthesis & Respiration
  • Getting Intimate with Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Biology at the Beginning of the 21st Century
  • Selected Cell Organelles & Plasma Membrane Investigations
  • Brains in Itasca or “Brain U” Comes to Itasca
  • Learning from the Minnesota Black Bear
  • ITI Classroom/Laboratory Applications
  • Exploring The “Edge” of Biology: Insects
  • The Interface of Microbiology and Food
  • Birds at Itasca: breeding biology, migration, ecology, behavior, populations, identification, and more
  • Utilizing Science Equipment from HSC in Classroom Activities
  • Winter Ecology
  • Biology of Fish
  • “Brain U” or Brains2 Returns to Itasca
  • Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution, Science, and Society

Details about these presentations (PDF)