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iPhone apps for the Biology Teacher
A few months ago, I spent quite a bit of time searching for science related apps that could potentially be useful for my life as a biology teacher. I have downloaded a number and have had the...
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Free Topographic Maps through Google Earth
MapFinder: A USGS Topographic Map Index “MapFinder for Google Earth is a “.kmz” application that loads into Google Earth and shows the 7.5 minute quad USGS topographic map boundaries for the lower 48...
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Google’s Body Browser
Vesalius would be Proud This morning, while browsing through science related twitter posts, I became aware of Google Lab’s new Body Browser, at http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/. After downloading...
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How Evolution Gave Us The Human Edge
Click on the image above to access this unique NPR Resources containing 4 Interactives on Brewing a Human, An Upright Primer, Lost Cousins and Fossil Forensics (the last two are a small portion of the...
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American Scientist: Pizza Lunch Podcast
American Scientist Pizza Lunches are informal lectures where scientists present new research to an audience of non-scientists. The talks are hosted in Research Triangle Park, North...
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Dipity: Create an Online Timeline
Recently, I have been following Ed Yong on Twitter and was intrigued by his post, Research into reprogrammed stem cells at his blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, housed on the Discover Magazine...
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leafsnap
This morning, I saw a twitter post on an interesting new free phone app. Here is a brief video on the app posted at YouTube: and here is what the developers say on their website: Leafsnap is the...
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Become a KABT Blogger!
I have created a document on HOW TO CREATE AND PUBLISH A BLOG POST on the KABT website for teaching those needing a little guidance. I hope it helps. If you have any questions, etc… please feel free...
View ArticleHalobacterium sp. NRC-1 “How To” document
Hello all, Thanks for the fun yesterday! This link will take you to a word doc with everything I could think of to help you with Halobacterium in your classroom: KABT handout post online If you do...
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Assessment with Google Forms
Recently while at the NABT conference in Dallas I used a Google Form embedded in a pen.io webpage to assess students on a PhET simulation they used while I was gone. The webpage can be found here....
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A Little Birdie
The role of social media is rapidly evolving, but education can still be a part of those interactions. I am a millennial. I was a college freshman when Facebook exploded in popularity, and although I...
View ArticleGIS in the Classroom
Today at KU Edwards Campus I attended the “GIS in the Classroom” workshop, part of April’s PD opportunities provided the KU Center for STEM Learning (under who the UKanTeach program can be found)....
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NSTA 2014: More Resources
Thanks to Michael Ralph getting things started. I would love to have made it to the epigenetics/arabidopsis workshop that he discuss but there is only so much time in a day. Here are a few of the...
View ArticleAn Example of teaching with GIS
Camden’s post about using technology to allow students to gather field data reminded me about an activity that my Field Ecology students and I completed this past January. The objective was to use...
View ArticleStatistics in the Biology Classroom
Saturday at KU Edwards Campus I attended the “Statistics in the Biology Classroom” workshop, the 2nd part of April’s PD opportunities provided the KU Center for STEM Learning (under who the UKanTeach...
View ArticleVOTE (Dancing, not politics)
[Note: At this time, voting is no longer active. The videos are available in a playlist below, and you can read more about the assignment in the original blog post.] Exercise your right to vote! Your...
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Electrophoresis is Hard
I know many upper-level biology classes perform some version of the classic (are they old enough to be classic yet?) biotechnology procedures at some point in the year. Bacterial transformation, PCR,...
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DIY Circulation Chamber
In my recent 3D printing exploits I have realized that I need a clean way to circulate fluids around and through samples. My need is to pass D-limonene over HIPS prints to dissolve in-fill and support...
View ArticleBioRender
Imagine for me, if you would, this scenario: you are trying to make a diagram for a lab report (or assessment or poster or whatever) but you can’t find the right figure. So you draw something that...
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