Thursday, September 25, 2008

A Study Resource for Biology (students) Teachers

In case you haven't figured it out, one way I stay current in my field and pick up ideas and new resources is to research online and to read a number of blogs focused my profession and life interests. One such blog is Instructify. It's a blog aimed as providing resources to teachers. Today it published the story which follows on a resource for Biology teachers.

It occurred to me that handouts, online resources, etc. might very well prove of use to you in studying for your biology course. While you'll need to do some weeding, I suspect you'll find a lot of information to help you better understand some of the complex ideas to which you are being introduced.

Here's a copy of the story:

via Instructify by lfrohne on 9/25/08

Do you teach high school biology? Are you in need of some fresh material, or do you want to incorporate online resources in your class, but don’t know where to start? Well, lucky for you, we’ve hit the biology motherload for you this time.

Biology Corner is a teacher-maintained website chock full of high school-level biology activities, labs, worksheets, and other online resources. It’s created by a teacher for her own classes and she is kind enough to share it with all of you — for free!

Included in the many useful materials you can find at Biology Corner are online worksheets to enhance your lessons on anatomy, genetics, the scientific method, cellular biology and more. Plus, she’s created “web lessons” that guide students through links to external websites with relevant information, and larger “web quest” projects. Not to mention, she has informational graphics illustrating biological concepts like cells, solutions and DNA — so you can avoid showing off your artistic skills (or lack thereof!) for your class — and quizzes that your students can take online and receive their scores immediately.

I wasn’t kidding when I said we’ve hit the biological motherload! You can even check out the course plans for her Biology, Anatomy and Physics classes to get an idea of how you can best use these online resources in your own class. Also, all the materials can be customized to suit your own classroom. What more could you want? — LAUREN FROHNE

Biology Corner

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Image from www.biologycorner.com

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