DNA Replication!
Hey friends,I upgraded and expanded my tutorial on DNA replication. It now includes all the enzymatic details (ligase, helicase, DNA polymerase, etc.) Check it out, and tell me what you…
DNA Discovery (inductive activity)
I put together a "Discover the Structure of DNA" activity which traces some of the key experiments and data points (the transforming factor; Avery, Macleod, McCarty; Hershey Chase, Rosalind Franklin's…
Cell to Cell communication
Just posted the "long distance cell to cell communication" presentation I gave to my students before Thanksgiving, along with a big interactive quiz on some key diagrams associated with this…
Cellular Respiration Tutorials!
It's taken me a few hours/day for most days for the past few weeks, but I've written tutorials to cover pretty much everything an AP Biology student needs to know about cellular respiration.…
Cellular Respiration Overview!
Hi all, Not sure how I found the time, but I managed to write an interactive tutorial that gives an overview of cellular respiration. It teaches about substrate level phosphorylation, oxidation/reduction,…
Bill Bryson on Cells, and an updated Cell Size (surface area/volume ratio) lab
Hi Friends, I've just uploaded two handouts that you might enjoy. This is a short excerpt from Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything. Use it to give your students…
Using Claim-Evidence-Reasoning with a computer-based natural selection simulation
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…
The Four Big Ideas…In an Apple
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…
AP Biology Themes
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…
My AP Biology Course Sequence
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…