HHMI and Case Studies
If you use HHMI Biointeractive resources and case studies found at the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, then you’ll appreciate this announcement. The National Center for …
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Deer Heart Dissection
My anatomy students learn the heart every year which ends with the dissection of a preserved sheep heart. This year, a hunter friend brought me a fresh deer heart …
High School Students Doing Field Biology
If you are fortunate enough to teach near a university, there is a very good chance that programs at the college are in place to help high school teachers. …
Are You Still Teaching Taxonomy?
If you are using an older biology book, chances are, the chapters are organized by kingdoms, phyla, and then orders. The textbook we currently use with the freshman class …
Your Inner Fish – Video from HHMI
At the NSTA Conference in Chicago last year, I had the pleasure of meeting (at least from a distance) Neil Shubin, who is a fish paleontologist. We watched one …
Can Bacteria Be Designed to Create Gasoline?
I’ve heard the term “biofuel” before, and that usually conjures up images of corn fields and ethanol. I recently attended a lecture at Washington University presented by Fuzhong Zhang. The …