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Serendip
This website from Bryn Mawr College encourages teaching and learning across traditional disciplines and boundaries, with a focus on biology, neuroscience, and science in culture. Promising no “authoritative” answers, Serendip offers several ways to explore ideas: interactive games and exhibits on its “playground,” guest exhibitions, on-line discussion forums, and interactive authoring—including student Web papers that incorporate online research. The website also contains links to Bryn Mawr’s wide array of undergraduate courses and includes articles by and conversations with scholars in anthropology, art history, writing, geology, psychology, literature, and philosophy. Resources for K-12 classes and pedagogical discussions for teachers are located on the "science education" section of the site. The “for first-time visitors” feature helps guide users through the complex, rapidly changing site.
Exploring Emergence: Ant Colonies Simulation
This complex website contains a simulation called, "Ant Colonies: Social Organization Without a Director?" It asks: Why do some ants patrol (guard areas of the nest), while others forage or engage in "midden work" (cleaning up debris)? A model cannot provide the answers, but it can give users new ways to think about organizational patterns in society.
Media: Web page/JavaProgram Director: Peter D. Brodfuehrer, Ph.D.
Award Years: 1998, 1993, 1996, 2004, 2008
Summary: Bryn Mawr College is a private baccalaureate institution in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- Summer Institutes for K-12 teachers that emphasize interactive approaches, an appreciation of classroom diversity, the integration of science throughout the curriculum and technology use;
- A Summer Science Research Program that provides new opportunities for students to work in a wide range of laboratory and educational settings on and off campus;
- A renovated teaching lab to facilitate the teaching of Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a year-long course emphasizing the connections between various disciplines within biology; and
- A widely used website, Serendip, which is devoted to exploring new directions in neuroscience and science education in general.