Sentences with phrase «teaching biology classes»

He artfully draws readers into a particular moment, be it his attempt to teach a biology class about moss or the recounting of a spirited conversation with an archaeologist in New Mexico.

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Krasinski spent his first semester teaching English in Costa Rica before returning to Brown, where his favorite classes were «Management of Industrial and Nonprofit Organizations» and an introductory biology course.

And yet biology class can teach you nothing about the origins of life.

Lawrence, «And yet biology class can teach you nothing about the origins of life.

Again, ALL university and colleges in the USA with tertiary level biology classes teach evolution as a fundamental component of biology.

Imagine your biology teacher has a class one day where they teach a chapter about Shinto creation.

Even the courts have now thrown out this silly belief when creationist tried to sue UCLA for not accepting xstian high school credits from biology classes where it was taught.

When schools are run by government bureaucrats... the details of 9th - Grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals & religious observances, speech / dress / behavior codes... and every other possible issue — from how to teach math & reading... to vending machine contents & cafeteria menus — becomes a POLITICAL issue.

The elusive e-mailers, who claim to be part of a group called the Stem Cell Research Watch Group, responded to an e-mail from Science saying that they are «a group of students majoring in biology and often discuss papers that are taught in class.»

«Imagine that on the first day of classes, young students find themselves before the country's most well - known researcher teaching molecular biology classes with an absolutely contagious enthusiasm,» he says.

Black teaches the most advanced biology class available at her high school in Kenmore, Wash..

When he learned that his high school biology teacher refused to teach evolution for religious reasons, he boycotted the class.

'' [Friedberg] recognized that not everybody could learn the things they were teaching in traditional biology classes from a textbook or in 2D.»

She called the head of the biology department at the college and applied for a part - time teaching position, which she obtained three weeks before classes started.

In the late 1990s, he was a young graduate student studying molecular genetics and biotechnology and teaching an introductory biology class at the University of Guelph in Canada.

Friedberg understood something about his students that others missed, Bitton says: He «recognized that not everybody could learn the things they were teaching in traditional biology classes from a textbook or in 2D.»

«Although the initial research focused on biology classes, the DART method can be applied in almost any teaching situation,» said Melinda Owens, postdoctoral scholar and lecturer at SF State, one of three lead authors on the paper.

High school biology classes teach us that the circulatory system pumps blood and the digestive system pumps food.

During my university and research career, I also taught a number of undergraduate classes in biology, and mentored several undergrads in plant genetics.

Humans evolved as opportunistic omnivores, so not sure what biology class would teach that we are herbivores.

Any biology class will teach you we are herbivores so in terms of nature, it does not make sense.

Michele Naber, who teaches regular and AP biology at Mission Viejo High School, in Mission Viejo, California, assigns MIT's practice problems to her students as in - class assignments and on tests.

This new study looked at an introductory biology class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that averaged nearly 400 students and was taught by one of the authors over six semesters — three in a traditional lecture format and three through active learning.

Tracy Sheehan, who teaches biology and bioethics both for VHS and at Westborough High School, in Westborough, Massachusetts, says she hears from students online who would probably remain silent in class, especially when teaching bioethics.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

She's part of a group of six teachers that brought an interdisciplinary approach to teaching Facing History's «Race and Membership» unit last year at Blackstone Academy Charter School in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.As part of the Innovative Schools Network, Blackstone Academy created a unit that takes all aspects of discussing race and integrated it into a cohesive series of lessons that combines history; English Language Arts (ELA); and biology classes.

Veteran teacher Carol Donnelly teaches five classes of biology in her high school: one honors class, one regular class, and three biology classes for English language learners (ELLs).

Despite that isolation — and despite the fact that the school has just three teachers on site — the students at Qugcuun Memorial still have access to geometry and biology classes taught by highly qualified teachers, as well as up - to - date electives like digital photography.

Smereka's teaching experience includes; after - school classes with children (Rochester, Essex & Middlebury), water color and drawing classes with adults (Shelburne Art Center, Frog Hollow Middlebury and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio), collaborative biology and art class at Montpelier High School, drawing class at Champlain College and painting and printmaking at the Governors Institute on the Arts.

I had the pleasure of being a teaching assistant for him in an introductory biology course, and he always made this point in the last class...

While there will be some differences depending on the requirements of the class being taught, many tasks are similar for graduate teaching assistants whether their area of interest is English or biology.

I have experience teaching many classes including: physical science, biology, academic chemistry, honors chemistry, and advanced placement chemistry.