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  • Body Tissues Review

    Body Tissues Review

    This remote learning exercise was made for anatomy students studying body tissues. The review uses Google slides for students to drag labels to the different types of epithelial cells and label the connective tissue matrix. Another slide has photos of tissue for students to identify which is the epithelial, connective, nervous, and muscle tissue. Fun…

  • How to Put Together Your Classroom Rules

    How to Put Together Your Classroom Rules

    My very first day of school over twenty years ago, I received some very bad advice about classroom rules.  For some reason, my education instructors at the time were very into student centered rule making.   The first day, they said, should be spent by creating rules with the class so that the students are…

  • Teaching Chi Square Analysis

    Teaching Chi Square Analysis

    How to teach chi square analysis in biology. Includes presentation slides and student assignment.

  • Are Kids Out of Touch with Nature?

    Are Kids Out of Touch with Nature?

    My students are suburban raised and have very little experience in the wild. After reading the article, “Give Childhood Back to Children,” I considered that playing outside not only helps kids learn social structures, it also allows them to explore nature.

  • Improve Student Writing in Science – A Guide

    Improve Student Writing in Science – A Guide

    Ways to incorporate writing strategies into a science curriculum for writing and science literacy.

  • How to Manage the Hour Study Hall

    How to Manage the Hour Study Hall

    In 1998, I was still a new teacher but I’d had a couple of years behind me and was just getting the hang of organizing lesson plans, keeping the class focused and not burying myself under a pile of homework.  When I arrived to school that August I found something unusual on my schedule,  something…