Vicki Breazeale

Broschiertes Buch

Burrow Buddies

A Story About a True Symbiotic Friendship

Beschreibung

You too can discover very special relationships in nature; all you need to do is carefully and consistently observe the nature around you over time. Go for it!

Autor

Author Vicki Breazeale, PhD (Dr. Bug), is a science educator, inventor, and academic director of the Integrated Science Program, an innovative weekend, accelerated science curriculum for students interested in pursuing degrees in health professions or biological sciences. She has taught biology and ecology in diverse settings to people of all ages for nearly three decades, including lecturing in Biology 1 for majors at UC-Berkeley for seven years. She also directed an innovative science education program serving prehealth professionals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and St. Louis for New College of California for eighteen years. Vicki has extensive experience in formal and free-choice science curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation. For example, Vicki developed and implemented a middle and elementary school curriculum on the natural history and ecology of San Francisco Bay for the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and led nature field trips at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. Vicki was the first person to describe a key allosteric enzyme in the Calvin Cycle of plants: Sedoheptulose 1, 7 Bisphosphatase. In 2006, Vicki and colleagues founded Great Wilderness, a nonprofit whose mission is to support people living in the rich biodiversity of tropical bioregions where the preservation of natural ecosystems is critical to sustaining life. Vicki has a comprehensive knowledge of biology as well as a detailed understanding of cognitive development and learning theories. She has a BS, MS, and PhD from the University of California-Berkeley. www.integratedscienceprogram.com www.greatwilderness.org [e-mail] Narae Kang is a freelance illustrator in Upstate New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 28
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 135g
• ISBN-13: 9781503531833
• ISBN-10: 150353183X
• Artikelnr.: 60203270