Category: Best Practices

So you’re heading back to school and need to get your Google Classroom …

My school announced that the fall school year will start as remote learning …

Students examine a phylogenetic tree which has questions for them to discover how …

This lesson introduces students to the idea of watching videos at home, taking …

Are you looking for current science for your students?   This is a list …

 Coloring activities can be helpful to give students a chance to model the …

In order to review for final exams and to also tie together the …

The CER framework can be a strategy for students to improve their writing …

I have used this demonstration every year to introduce the scientific method.  The …

My classroom has a collection of science themed books that are not textbooks …

Image of the microscope with a dropdown menu for labeling each of the …

A simple demonstration using bromothymol blue to show students how the scientific method …

My very first day of school over twenty years ago, I received some …

The new Advanced Placement Biology curriculum includes a few topics on statistical analysis …

The cell is a staple of any biology course, usually the chapter comes …

I was in the market for a new digital scale, mainly for the …

Many science teachers have classroom specimens (or pets) to serve as model organisms, …

Many biology classes still use dissections as a way for students to learn …

At the NSTA Conference in Chicago last year, I had the pleasure of …

Students will likely forget a good portion of all the details they learn …

During the cell unit of Advanced Placement biology, students are required to do …

It is the beginning of class, a lab report is due and students …