I had a great success last Friday using Claim-Evidence-Reasoning to get my students to think about an on-line natural selection simulation (I use this one because it runs on the Chromebooks…
If you, like me, agree with Dobzhansky that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” then it’s probably pretty important to you that your students understand…
Tomorrow will be the fourth day of school. It’s been a good week, and I’m loving teaching AP Biology again. I put together a two day lesson sequence to teach…
By organizing the material in AP Biology around four Big Ideas, the College Board has made the task of teaching a thematic course much easier. Here’s my take on these…
Revised, June, 23, 2019 Along with everyone else, I'm working on revising my AP Biology course scope and sequence to align with the College Board's just published 2019 Course and…
I am so excited to be teaching AP Biology this year! The last time I taught the class was in 2010, when my son (recently graduated from University of Michigan)…
Dear Friends and Followers, Greg Crowther, Ph.D., a lecturer at the University of Washington, recently emailed me to let me know about his study testing the effect of science-themed music…
Dear Friends, This is the first of a two part series on the immune system. The first video focuses on Innate (Non-Specific) Immunity. I'll be following this in about a…
Hey Folks, Over Thanksgiving, I uploaded two new videos. One is about the properties of water, focusing on water's polarity, hydrogen bonding, and all of its consequences. The second focuses on surface…
Thanks to our servicemen and servicewomen, present and past, I had an incredibly productive day. Please check out my latest Karaoke video: Mitosis, Karaoke. I am super-interested in any experiments…