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  • How to Survive the End of the Year: A Science Teacher's Guide

    How to Survive the End of the Year: A Science Teacher’s Guide

    You survived the onslaught of spring standardized tests.  Barely, after losing a few brain cells literally staring at struggling or bored students for hours on end.  (I swear proctoring is worse than actually taking an exam.)   If you teach seniors, you survived the getting-into-college weeks and even the College Decision Deadline.  Spring break is […]

  • Top 5 Online Video Clips for Teaching Biology

    Top 5 Online Video Clips for Teaching Biology

      We all know that there are excellent videos we as teachers can show in class to help further student understanding.  And there are a lot of awful, non-useful videos out there that are only good for killing time, which is never a good teaching strategy.  In this blog post, I will give you my […]

  • Incorporating Technology into the Science Classroom

    Incorporating Technology into the Science Classroom

      As a science teacher, we have unique challenges and unique opportunities at the same time when it comes to technology.  Each teacher has different resources available.   Some schools have 1:1 chromebook/lapbook/iPads and each student has access to terrific web resources.  Yep, I’m jealous too.   And there’s the school I worked at as […]

  • Use a Molecule Viewer in High School Biology: STAR Biochem

    Use a Molecule Viewer in High School Biology: STAR Biochem

    Have you ever wanted to show your students what proteins or other molecules actually look like but struggled to use the 3D molecule or protein viewers?  Some of the programs available are really slow to load on not-state-of-the-art computers (who in education has state of the art computers??) and some of them are so difficult […]

  • Teaching Biochemistry in High School

    Teaching Biochemistry in High School

      One of the most difficult units in high school biology to learn (and to teach!) is the biochemistry chapter.  The complex vocabulary and the abstract concepts make this unit seem like a foreign language to most students.  I know because for the first few years of teaching, all of my students had the same […]

  • Dollar Store Idea for Teaching Genetics

    Dollar Store Ideas: Easter Egg Genetics!

    It’s that time of year!   Time to stock up on plastic easter eggs.  It’s actually pretty difficult to get these little guys at other times of the year, but before Easter, you can find them everywhere!   You can buy a whole bunch of eggs, , some pipe cleaners, and some googly eyes with about […]

  • Genetics Blog Post

    How I Fell In Love With Genetics

    One of my favorite things to teach is genetics.  There is something so unique about the field in all of biology.  In fact, it is the field that convinced me to become a biologist in college and go to grad school.  In the coming weeks, I will write a blog series about how genetics is […]