Brian Hornbuckle: Teaching
Courses I teach / have taught and some teaching resources I have developed over the years.
- Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
- Agronomy 206: Introduction to Meteorology (WebCT GOLD course).
- Each fall semester I team teach 206 with Professor Ray Arritt and TA John Baranick.
We are using, with success, a wireless polling system
(the TurningPoint classroom response system)
that allows both students and faculty to obtain immediate feedback
by immediately displaying student responses to multiple-choice quiz questions.
If you are a graduate student (in any physical science major with either an interest or experience in agriculture)
and would like to help teach 206, please apply for this fellowship.
- Agronomy / Environmental Science / Meteorology 405/505: Biometeorology (Environmental Biophysics).
- I teach 405/505 in alternate years (odd spring semesters, beginning with Spring 2005).
The course closely follows Campbell and Norman's
An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics.
- Electrical Engineering / Meteorology / Agronomy 518: Microwave Remote Sensing.
- I teach 518 in alternate years (even spring semesters, beginning with Spring 2006).
- The University of Michigan
- I taught Supplemental Instruction (SI) sections for EECS 210,
the first electrical engineering class in the undergraduate program.
Here is the OUTLINE.
- The University of Mississippi
- Resources developed during graduate study:
- Term paper: how desegregation occured in Clarksdale, MS: DESEG
- A proposed block schedule for CHS: BLOCK
- My notes on block scheduling: BLOCK NOTES
- Clarksdale High School
- Labs for high school chemistry:
- The concept of isotopes presented with beans! ISOTOPES
- Learn conversion factors by making Kool-Aid! KOOLAID
- Prove Kroger Baking Soda really is baking soda with a chemical reaction! KROGER
- Learn about molarity (if you can stand salty water)! MOLARITY
If you teach physical science at either the middle or high school level, you'll love
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Brian Hornbuckle