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of the high school biology teachers recently held an optional two hour pre-finals study session over the weekend to ensure the students would be well prepared for their finals!
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of a high school biology teacher... the triumphs, the failures, and everything in between.
About Blog This blog is about a day in the life
of a high school biology teacher... the triumphs, the failures, and everything in between.
And forgetting entirely the advice
of a high school biology teacher re: rape — act insane; yell, «I have AIDS»; foam at the mouth; pull at your hair; or better yet, wet yourself.
These biology vocabulary lists cover all levels
of high school biology instruction and aim to help students to develop a love of learning for life!
About Blog This blog is about a day in the life
of a high school biology teacher... the triumphs, the failures, and everything in between.
A method for analyzing the coherence
of high school biology textbooks.
October 1964 Evolution and Creation «Biblical fundamentalists are once again in conflict with biologists, this time as a result of efforts by the National Science Foundation to raise the level
of high school biology teaching.
During the school year 1963 — 1964 some 250,000 copies of the three texts were sold, a number sufficient to reach 12 percent
of the high school biology students in the U.S.. All three have been offered to and accepted by state adoption boards in Georgia and Florida.
As summer draws to a close, participating middle school students will begin tackling chemistry concepts to prepare them for the rigor
of high school biology courses.
It has been described as a question requiring no more than a knowledge
of high school biology.
It takes nothing more than an understanding
of high school biology.
Not exact matches
Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her
high -
school biology textbook about the experiments
of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one
of the greatest biologists
of the eighteenth century.
You don't have to go very far down that road before you start thinking about creation science or scientific creationism, or get involved in
school board squabbles about whether Genesis should be taught alongside
of evolution in
high school biology courses.
The 1925 «Monkey» trial
of John Scopes, a
high school biology teacher who taught evolution, drove fundamentalists underground, some say.
Even though I attended a public
high school, where I took two
biology courses, my teachers essentially skipped the first few chapters
of our science textbook and declared them «too controversial» to teach.
They advocate the inclusion the new physics and the new
biology in the
high school science curriculum instead
of the more typical one - sided presentation
of the dominant view
of scientific materialism.
Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most
high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory
of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies
of the humble pea.
How well are the churches addressing the tensions felt in the minds
of many educated Christians who internally hear two choruses: on the one hand, the voices
of their pastor and Sunday
school, the scriptures and tradition; on the other, the voices
of their
high school science teacher, their college
biology professor and the science section
of the New York Times?
And I certainly get how you could listen to the pabulum shoveled out in your average
high school biology class and think «That's a load
of feces, and no more reasonable (or scientific) than my beliefs.»
Regardless
of how we ought to understand the establishment clause, Intelligent Design does not belong in
high -
school biology classrooms.
As you may remember from
high school biology, proteins are made
of several amino acids chained together.
I used to teach
high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love
of science and learning.
John Mannion, a
biology teacher at West Genesee
High School, received 67 percent
of the county committee's vote Saturday morning.
The county's Democratic committee on Wednesday night selected Mannion, 49, a
biology teacher at West Genesee
High School, over Joseph Chiarenza, a two - term member
of the DeWitt Town Board.
Mannion, a
biology teacher at West Genesee
High School, earned 67 percent
of the vote from the county's Democratic Committee Saturday morning.
With another grant from the U.S. Department
of Education, Roseman and her colleagues are leading work on a new curriculum project that builds on the THSB project to focus on energy concepts in
high school biology.
Building on its work at the middle
school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department
of Education's Institute
of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for
high school biology students.
The new unit will help develop students» understanding
of energy transfer and conservation in both living and non-living systems so that they can explain fundamental processes in living organisms, a major topic in most
high school biology courses.
When I was a
high school student in my home country
of Greece, good students were expected to become doctors, and my
biology teacher insisted that I apply to medical
school.
By contrast, Donovan said, the Toward
High School Biology unit incorporates chemistry lessons that inform her students» understanding
of biology.
Our team consists
of two former research scientists (the co-directors), an education specialist (a former
high school biology teacher), a scientific illustrator and animator, a computer professional, an undergraduate program assistant, and me, the postdoctoral fellow.
«The first - year
biology classes are too big», she explains, «and the labs are severely underfunded, such that many
of the activities are reminiscent
of labs I had during
high school».
It's a
high school biology student's dream come true: all the educational perks
of frog dissection without having to lift a scalpel.
The brainchild
of artist Emily Stoneking, aKNITomy will bring back memories from
high school biology class and the dissection activities you either loved or loathed.
I completed an M.A.T. in secondary education, specializing in
biology, at Winthrop University with the intent
of teaching
high -
school science, but I decided instead to enter the University
of Toledo's doctoral program in
biology because the kid in me still wanted to learn how things worked.
To date, he has mentored more than 40
high school and undergraduate students, mainly through the annual iGEM competition in which students try their hands at synthetic
biology under the supervision
of senior researchers.
Wheeler's dual interests in
biology and technology date to her
high school days in Westlake, Ohio, near Cleveland, where, she says, she had an abundance
of good teachers and mentors.
Inside the StarCAVE at the University
of California, San Diego,
high school biology students find themselves engulfed in virtual 3 - D renderings
of green fluorescent proteins and other structures derived from the university's Protein Data Bank.
Gardner cautions that when religious superstition should be on the wane, it is easy «to forget that thousands
of high school teachers
of biology, in many
of our southern states, are still afraid to teach the theory
of evolution for fear
of losing their jobs.»
So after obtaining his Ph.D. in
biology and his photography degree — the equivalent
of a
high school diploma in the arts — he decided to step out
of science for a year to «digest» his Ph.D. and concentrate on photography.
His legacy also includes his mentorship
of countless professional and amateur lepidopterists, including Warren, who was a
high school butterfly enthusiast when he first met Emmel at a summer butterfly
biology workshop.
A 57 - year - old
high school biology teacher — «I'm on the front lines
of the evolution issue,» he says — he describes his religion as «Einsteinian / Spinozan,» lives surrounded by books, loves dancing and blues guitar, and lists his greatest sources
of enjoyment as «kids, thinking clearly and critically, walking in the woods.»
As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a
high school student; the experience taught him to think about
biology from an engineering point
of view.
As the fall semester begins at U.S.
high schools and universities, the rites
of introductory
biology begin anew: Tens
of thousands
of students are listening to lectures on photosynthesis, memorizing parts
of the cell, and learning the terms
of taxonomy.
A motivated
high school student with access to a nearby
biology lab can assemble a reference - quality genome
of an actual species, like a butterfly, for the cost
of a science fair project.»
Eventually, Roseman's goal is to encourage
high schools to make the energy unit part
of their
biology curriculum, just as Project 2061 has been able to do with its middle
school unit.
In the book, you write that two things got you through
high school: punk rock and the discovery
of evolutionary
biology through books like The Atlas
of Early Man and Richard Leakey's Origins.
I was born in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, received my
high school diploma from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a B.S. in biology (with minor in Spanish) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, and my Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn
school diploma from the North Carolina
School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a B.S. in biology (with minor in Spanish) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, and my Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn
School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, a B.S. in
biology (with minor in Spanish) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, and my Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.