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Diffusion Notes
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Sean Nash Dec 9.

The Carbon/Water/Nitrogen) Cycle
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Getting ready to roll out some new features on Monday. Enjoy your dinosaur (bird) based meal! Nov 26

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Immune System Introduction

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 books. You have to prepare sterile (or at least s…

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Sean Nash replied to Colin Matheson's discussion 'Diffusion Notes'

While on the subject of direct instruction... I'd like to toss in two cents that says even in a largely constructivist environment... there exists room for relatively-direct mini lessons. An article that I have found valuable in working with new te…

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Glen Westbroek replied to Colin Matheson's discussion 'Diffusion Notes'

Don't forget when you continue with Osmosis to do the Peeing Egg lab. I find students who have a good understanding of diffusion are able to explain osmosis. When I do the lab after we've learned about diffusion, I do NOT explain anything about the…

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Diffusion Notes

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 the blank notes aren't enough to get students invol…

December 7

Colin Matheson commented on Glen Westbroek's blog post 'Science Content Day'

This is a great PD event. I help organize something similar in our district. Each year a teacher sets out a technology goal and then we collect all of the teacher goals and look for the big areas of interest. Then we offer a select of morning sessio…

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At 6:22pm on December 8, 2009, Michael T. Roche said…: Thanks for your comment, Colin. I'm excited to have stumbled upon The Synapse and look forward to sharing.

-Mike-

At 2:03am on October 29, 2009, Gwen Noda said…: heh... a discussion... okay... i'll try to figure that out next...

At 3:15am on October 27, 2009, Gwen Noda said…: Thanks for leading your two sessions at CSTA. They were helpful. Saw you in the back of my session, thanks for coming!

At 9:16am on October 5, 2009, erika said…: Hi, I speak both, but I am a lot better in spanish, my usename is like the plant family but with K

At 2:32pm on September 25, 2009, Dallas Foreman said…: Thanks for the friendly hello. I won't have much to contribute initially as I'm still 2 years away from getting my B.Ed. but was told this place was a good place to make some connections and just basically get my feet wet.

At 8:02am on September 22, 2009, Karen Huffman said…: Human A&P, microbiology

At 1:43pm on July 27, 2009, Laura Monti said…: hello! I taught part time for one year (my profile pic - of baby #3- is why!), and am back to FT- 3 classes of AP bio, one of intro chem...I am struggling with AP (this will be my 3rd year of it)- no matter how hard I work, I never seem to get it right (right balance of lecture/ activity, right pace, right level of depth)...so joining this ring is another of my many attempts to search for the best practices!

At 9:12pm on July 16, 2009, Stephanie Wainwright said…: Right now we offer both Standard Level (1 year) and Higher Level (2 years). I'm hopeful that we will soon offer only the Higher Level.

I think the curriculum is very similar to AP. We even use the same text. I think the biggest difference is the labs.

At 2:11pm on July 16, 2009, Jennifer Kiely said…: I teach at a Christian school, so I get to teach both evolution and creationism. Very exciting!

At 4:02pm on July 14, 2009, Jen said…: Colin - Just watched your candy gel electrophoresis video :) Do you have a copy of that you could send me? I would like to do that lab - and this is the second time this week I've seen mention of it. Thanks for any help you can provide!
Jen