Member Profile

Nancy J. Pelaez

Primary Discipline:: Science and Technology / Biology / Human Anatomy and Physiology

Personal Website:: http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/~npelaez/
Professional Website:: http://www.bio.purdue.edu/people/faculty/index.php?refID=378

Primary Affiliation:: Purdue University System - Purdue University (Education, 4 Year/4 Year + Grad, IN, United States)

Member of VSB Since:: October 15, 2005
Best Way to Contact:: Email npelaez@purdue.edu
Fees Involved:: Negotiable
Technical Formats:: Discussion Forums, Face-To-Face
Topics of Expertise:: (1) High School Science Laboratories: Role and Vision (Committee Member, National Research Council Board on Science Education for a National Academies study, see http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309096715?OpenDocument for a press release); (2) Teaching Evolutionary Biology; (3) Misconceptions about Life Science; (4) Bilingual (Multicultural) Science Education
Presentation Titles:: (1) America's Lab Report: Poor grades for school science labs, but research points way to improvements; (2) KEEPToolkit designs for evolutionary biology lessons that accommodate diverse religious perspectives; (3) Science versus Dogma: Misconceptions about human blood circulation; (4) Harnessing analogies about blood circulation as cultural capital for responsive teaching of science for English Language Learners

Science and Technology / Instructional Design and Technology (Advanced)
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0127164, developing a Video and Image Data Access (VIDA) database with annotated science video and images with content and language appropriate for K-6 standards-based science. Using DAG-Edit from the Gene Ontology Consortium to build a dynamic controlled vocabulary that can adapt as life science teaching standards and research-based curricula accumulate or change (Richter and Lewis c2003). The result is a hierarchical scaffold to organize the VIDA collection of images into a cognitive structure appropriate for K-6 science.
Science and Technology / Biology (Expert)
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Honors in Biology, B.S., awarded the Biology Prize, 1976. Project: Numbers and proportions of microorganisms in humid forest litters.
Education (Expert)
Taught science at all grades 5-12, coordinated Science Scope and Sequence for a bilingual school, Colegio Los Nogales, in Bogota, Colombia, South America; CA single subject credentials in Biological Science and Physical Science; Indiana State Teacher's License in General Science, Primary Area, 5-12; Physical Science, Primary Area, 5-12; Biology, Primary Area, 5-12; Chemistry, Primary Area, 5-12; National Science Teacher's Association Middle School Science National Certification, 1993.