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My school is looking to revamp its curriculum and the idea of offering honors courses has been brought up. Presently we offer just a general biology course to all incoming freshmen. All sophomores ta…
Tagged: curriculum
Started by Debra Garcia in Information Requests. Last reply by Chris Ludwig 6 hours ago.
The science fair is one of the best teaching strategies I have encountered after almost 20 years of schooling and 7 years of teaching. It teachers the scientific method and project management It allo…
Tagged: projects, PBL, fair, science
Started by Colin Matheson in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Jen Feb 7.
Okay - here's another one :) Days 1/2 - Intro to ecology with Chapter 52 (via SmartBoard but mostly I did this one as a lot of this chapter is memorization :P and data analysis :)Day 3: Virtual Popul…
Tagged: Populations, AP Biology, Ecology, lesson plans
Started by Jen in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Jen Feb 5.
Here is a folder with three activities to create cladograms.Two use physical traits and one uses cytochrome c sequences.Full disclaimer: I have picked up two of these lessons from other sources. I wi…
Tagged: classification, cladograms, sequences, evolution
Started by Colin Matheson in Lesson Plans Feb 2.
This is a fun way to have kids learn about the matter cycles. I usually introduce it with the water cycle (which most students are comfortable with), but my main objective is to teach the Carbon cycl…
Tagged: simulation, writing, differentiation, activity, eutrophication
Started by Colin Matheson in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Jen Jan 15.
By request :) (and thanks - I wouldn't have thought to do this....), sharing a plan for my AP evolution unit this is limited on lecture, and uses a lot of different activities/labs/whiteboards to get…
Tagged: Whiteboards, Evolution, instruction, Student-centered, Biology
Started by Jen in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Sean Nash Jan 15.
As in any Biology/Living Environment class, photosynthesis and respiration are critical topics that students tend to have difficulties with. Because of that, I was wondering if anyone had any good la…
Started by Jason Braun in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Jen Jan 6.
Is anyone interested in a book club? If so, I'll start a group. But we should pick a book first (if anyone is even interested). My dad just sent me Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. It would b…
Started by David Knuffke in Collaborative Mini-Projects. Last reply by Cheska Lorena Dec. 27, 2009.
Here are two activities and a vocab list I use to start the unit on the immune system. The first activity I learned in my microbiology course in college and haven't seen it in any high school biology…
Tagged: epidemic, symbiosis, infection, activity, bacteria
Started by Colin Matheson in Lesson Plans Dec. 14, 2009.
I know that lecturing gets a bad rap. However, direct instruction can be really effective if you get the kids engaged and have them stop and think every once and awhile. In my opinion, just fill in t…
Tagged: cell, membrane, notes, instruction, direct
Started by Colin Matheson in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Sean Nash Dec. 9, 2009.
Here is a link to a lesson I have run recently on teaching kids about the process of IVF and the ethical considerations surrounding it. We started with watching a brief news clip about "octomom" and…
Tagged: reproduction, IVF
Started by Nadine Dickinson in Lesson Plans. Last reply by Debra Garcia Dec. 2, 2009.
Hi folks, Anyone lucky enough to get an invite to google wave can find the AP Biology Teacher Wave and join. To make things easy, it's a public wave. Search for "with:public AP Biology" (no quotes)…
Tagged: Biology, AP, wave, google
Started by David Knuffke in Things to Share. Last reply by Debra Garcia Nov. 30, 2009.
I often participate in the weekly Tuesday night #edchat hash tag discussion on twitter. This week the discussion was about differentiation. Good stuff. I tend to be fairly progressive about education…
Tagged: constructivism, pedagogy, concepts, facts
Started by Colin Matheson in Current Issues in Biology. Last reply by Colin Matheson Nov. 13, 2009.
We DO need a repository of solid, reviewed (at least tagged) web links. Let's give this a try: I have created an account at del.icio.us for The Synapse. The main account page is found here. If you a…
Tagged: reference, online, Internet, resources, bookmarking
Started by Sean Nash in Current Issues in Biology. Last reply by Gwen Noda Nov. 10, 2009.
Hi. I come to science teaching from a research background, not an education background, so one thing I struggle with is how to teach the practice of science that to me is second nature. Does anyone h…
Tagged: skills, methods, pedagogy
Started by Tamar Cunha in Information Requests. Last reply by Gwen Noda Nov. 4, 2009.
Here in Los Angeles, a bunch of high school teachers came to me and basically said, 'we want to teach marine biology instead of biology, so that the kids don't have to wait until 12th grade to take i…
Tagged: science, standards, california, lessons, biology
Started by Gwen Noda in Collaborative Mini-Projects Oct. 29, 2009.
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Tagged: diet, pollan, nutrition, food, wholefoods
Started by Sean Nash in Current Issues in Biology. Last reply by Gwen Noda Oct. 27, 2009.
I am going to be sharing The Synapse with a bunch of science teachers this week. Any one have any feedback about what they have gained from the synapse. Or for new members what you hope to gain from…
Tagged: pln
Started by Colin Matheson in Information Requests. Last reply by Jason Braun Oct. 26, 2009.
Hey Techie folks, I just started using prezi, a presentation alternative to Powerpoint that is available for free on-line. It takes a little getting used to, but it's pretty cool. You can see the pr…
Tagged: freeware, slideware, prezi
Started by David Knuffke in Things to Share. Last reply by Nadine Dickinson Oct. 15, 2009.
So, I have a group of 9th graders this year that is made up of about 2/3 boys. And they are very, very rowdy. I try to use a wide variety of approches during the school year, but I'm used to having a…
Started by Stacy Baker in Things to Share. Last reply by Susan Berrend Oct. 4, 2009.
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