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Learning through Teaching: A Microbiology Service-Learning Experience.

ABSTRACT: Service learning is defined as a strategy in which students apply what they have learned in the classroom to a community service project. Many educators would agree that students often learn best through teaching others. This premise was the motivation for a new service-learning project in which undergraduate microbiology students developed and taught hands-on microbiology lessons to local elementary school children. The lessons included teaching basic information about microbes, disease transmission, antibiotics, vaccines, and methods of disease prevention. This service-learning project benefitted the college students by enforcing their knowledge of microbiology and provided them an opportunity to reach out to children within their community. This project also benefitted the local schools by teaching the younger students about microbes, infections, and handwashing. In this paper, I discuss the development and implementation of this new microbiology service-learning project, as well as the observed impact it had on everyone involved.

SUBMITTER: Webb G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4798824 | biostudies-other | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Learning through Teaching: A Microbiology Service-Learning Experience.

Webb Ginny G

Journal of microbiology & biology education 20160301 1

Service learning is defined as a strategy in which students apply what they have learned in the classroom to a community service project. Many educators would agree that students often learn best through teaching others. This premise was the motivation for a new service-learning project in which undergraduate microbiology students developed and taught hands-on microbiology lessons to local elementary school children. The lessons included teaching basic information about microbes, disease transmi ...[more]

PMID: 27047598

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Learning through Teaching: A Microbiology Service-Learning Experience.

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Learning through Teaching: A Microbiology Service-Learning Experience.

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