{"id":2142,"date":"2017-08-28T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2018-01-02T10:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:47:39","slug":"arms-teacher-elliott-kelley-brings-expertise-and-supplies-from-vierling-lab-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/2017\/08\/28\/arms-teacher-elliott-kelley-brings-expertise-and-supplies-from-vierling-lab-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMS Teacher Elliott Kelly Brings Expertise and supplies from Vierling Lab Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"moz-text-html\" lang=\"x-unicode\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h1 id=\"gmail-headline\">UMass scientist, teacher team up to develop plant experiments for middle schoolers<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;AMHERST \u2014 Amherst-Pelham Regional Middle School science teacher Elliott Kelly held the rapt attention of everyone in his classroom on Friday, demonstrating to his colleagues and scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst an experiment he designed for use in the middle school this fall.<\/p>\n<p>By growing various varieties of plants in different conditions \u2014 soil with high levels of salt or heavy metals, for example \u2014 Kelly hopes the experiment can teach kids about how plants respond to environmental changes&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0For the rest of the article:<\/p>\n<p>Daily Hampshire Gazette:\u00a0Saturday, August 26, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/2017\/08\/28\/arms-teacher-elliott-kelley-brings-expertise-and-supplies-from-vierling-lab-experience\/elliott-gazette-article\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2144\">Elliott Gazette Article<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2146\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/2017\/08\/28\/arms-teacher-elliott-kelley-brings-expertise-and-supplies-from-vierling-lab-experience\/elliott-photo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2146\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2146\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/files\/2017\/08\/Elliott-photo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/files\/2017\/08\/Elliott-photo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/files\/2017\/08\/Elliott-photo.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Norman Price, Amherst Regional Middle School seventh-grade science teacher, left, looks on as eighth-grade science teacher Elliott Kelly measures Arabidopsis seedlings Aug. 25, 2017 while demonstrating a plant experiment he perfected this summer working with biologists at UMass Amherst as part of a National Science Foundation grant. The middle school&#8217;s science teachers will run the experiment with students this fall. &#8211; photo by <span class=\"photocredit\">GAZETTE STAFF\/SARAH CROSBY PHOTOS<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMass scientist, teacher team up to develop plant experiments for middle schoolers &#8220;AMHERST \u2014 Amherst-Pelham Regional Middle School science teacher Elliott Kelly held the rapt attention of everyone in his classroom on Friday, demonstrating&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.biochem.umass.edu\/vierlinglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}