University Transfer: Learning in Action
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Classrooms and labs are what you expect in university. And you’ll spend time in both when you take university transfer at Lakeland.
But you’ll benefit from having more elbow room and up-to-the-minute technologies in our labs. Our average is over 27 hours per course in labs.
Put theory into action, developing key skills that will help you complete your degree.
Two of our most popular transfer routes are education and science. Take a look at the photo gallery of activities.
Depending on your courses and the degree you're pursuing, you could find yourself:
- creating an interactive math game and sharing it at a grade 3 Math Fair
- exploring movement activities with elementary and secondary aged students in their school gym
- experiencing educational settings in Mexico
The course is called higher arithmetic, but one of its projects involves grade three students.
One, sometimes two, math fairs are held at local schools for prospective teachers to learn more about how youngsters learn math.
What did the UT students learn? Read about their experiences
2021 – Meticulous planning also needed for fun and games during pandemic
2020 – Hitting the digital high seas: Math Fair during a pandemic
2020 – Math Fair mixes fun and play
PEDS 293 is a study of developmentally appropriate movement activities for children.
As a student, you'll try out some of those activities with your classmates. Then you'll work with children either at their school or in the Lakeland gym.
It's all part of learning how important physical education is to elementary-aged students and to gain insight into different levels of physical development.
PEDS 294 covers secondary-aged students.
Lakeland students pose with Mexican students and the craft they created during one of the university transfer field trips.
There's plenty of action in parachute games.
Both outdoor and indoor activities have been part of Lakeland student educational experiences in a variety of Mexican schools.
Taking to math like ducks to water in this math fair game.
Getting positive reactions as the grade 3 students play their math games is feedback for the Lakeland students.
Isn't that too big for dodge ball?
Sharing a math fact was one way to make math interesting for grade 3 math fair participants.
Lakeland students bring local school aged children to the Lloydminster gym or travel to a local school to run PEDS class games.
Interacting with grade 3 students is an opportunity for Lakeland students to see if elementary is the right route for them.
Colored pinnies identify teams and games when local secondary students visit Lakeland PEDS classes.
Lakeland students interact directly with grade 3 students.
Launching an earth ball is a team activity Lakeland students try during their PEDS class.
The math challenge is on with this Lakeland student asking grade three students if they can beat him.
Lakeland students try parachute games themselves in their PEDS 293 class - Introduction to Movement for Children aged 5 to 12
Combining math and Jenga was one of the many Math Fair games developed by a Lakeland university transfer student.
Lakeland's biology, physics and chemistry labs are state of the art. Why not take a virtual tour of the Lloydminster campus, or come and visit yourself.
While you might equate science with microscopes and test tubes, those aren't the only kind of labs our science students have.
Local parks and geographic formations are two field lab locations.
See the photo galleries that cover both indoor and outdoor labs.
BIO 208 ecology students using a photometer (light meter) in the deciduous forest of Bud Miller Park.
BIO 208 ecology students canoe out on the lake at Bud Miller Park to measure dissolved oxygen, temperature and other parameters in the water column.
BIO 108 student counts brine shrimp with a stereomicroscope during an ecology lab experiment.
In BIO 207, genetics lab students use a micropipette to load a bacterial DNA sample in an agarose gel.
Cell biology lab procedure called a mini plasmid prep where small molecules of DNA called plasmids from E.coli cell are extracted and purified.
BIO 108 student sets up an aquarium to investigate aspects that contribute to snail habitat preferences.
BIO 108 student observes a leech, her choice for a detailed invertebrate experiment.
A student in BIO 107 uses a micropipette to transfer a small volume of reagent between vessels.
An annual field trip to nearby Lea Park allows Earth Sciences students to see erosion of a Cretaceous-aged formation by the Vermilion River.
Students also take field measurements and collected samples from the river to determine its sediment capacity.
Chemistry students performed the acid-catalyzed dehydration of cyclohexanol to produce cyclohexene.
Cyclohexanol is a colorless thick liquid or sticky solid used to make nylon, paint and varnishes or a solvent to degrease.
Their goal was to make an alkene, a hydrocarbon containing a carbon-carbon double bond.
Cyclohexen is a colourless liquid used in a number of manufacturing processes.
For Bio 108 Ecology Christina Crews did an independent research project. She learned more than she expected by comparing two different areas of Bud Miller park's forest:
“You do learn in the classroom but it's not the same as actually going out, doing hands-on lab work and using the techniques that you are learning."
Everyone takes English
No matter your degree path, you'll need to take English.
At Lakeland, it isn't a chore. From work groups to acting out a Shakespeare play, you won't just be reading.
In Introductory English Literature, you might study Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
If so, you won't just read the play, you'll do exercises to examine how the text relates to physical drama and the meaning of the scene.
And in the case of comedy, you'll focus on the importance of the audience in interpreting the humour.
