Archive for the ‘biology’ Category
#asechat and #pimpmydemo
#asechat and #ukedchat It happened completely by accident. I happened to be on Twitter yesterday evening and some interesting posts showed up in my timeline tagged with #asechat. So I joined in. I already sporadically take part in #ukedchat. If you don’t, it’s worth a look; you may have recently read the Guardian article about [...]
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Tags: #asechat, #pimpmydemo, #ukedchat, Archive, CPD, twitter
ECA: Boosting Grades
It is – as it always seems to be – revision time once more. This year the AQA B2 exam is early and Easter is late, so I’m more than a little concerned about the level of preparation of some of my students. Maybe they’ll surprise me. But as an additional strategy, I’ve tried something [...]
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Tags: Bloom's Taxonomy, Education, Formative assessment, Schools, Student
Immunisation 4/5 Choices
This is the fourth of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my effort to [...]
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Tags: Brian Deer, Education, MMR vaccine controversy, Student, teaching
Immunisation 3/5
This is the third of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my effort [...]
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Tags: Andrew Wakefield, Ben Goldacre, Brian Deer, MMR vaccine controversy
This is the second of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my effort [...]
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Tags: Brian Deer, Correlation and dependence, Matt Parker
Immunisation 1/5 Infection
This will be the first of five posts designed as a teaching mini-scheme about the controversy surrounding the MMR vaccination; it is partly inspired by the recently published work by Brian Deer. Please note I feel, quite strongly, that MMR is safe and highly desirable (albeit underused in the UK right now). This is my [...]
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Adaptations of Santa and Rudolf
What better way to celebrate the festive season than to consider the adaptations of Santa and Rudolf to their annual tasks? Don’t answer that. Printable: christmas as pdf I gave this exercise to my students today and they seemed to enjoy it. I asked them to start by giving me three serious adaptations for each, and [...]
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Tags: @noradsanta, Adaptation, Christmas, Santa Claus
I’ve decided to add a quick post which fits in nicely with the set of five I made the other week. Basically, a bunch of interesting things showed up in science news online, more or less simultaneously, and I thought it was worth adding a new post instead of amending an old one. One bit [...]
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Tags: biology, evolution, science, teaching, web
Hopefully the posts this week have given a few ideas about how to make the teaching of evolution a little more interactive – it is, after all, fairly hard to show evolution happening in a school science lab. Today I’m going to share a few resources that have not featured so far, split between books [...]
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Tags: biology, books, evolution, science, teaching, web
Many people, including students – and probably teachers, too – struggle with the idea that all living things are related to each other. We certainly struggle with the thought that we have close relatives, chimpanzees, who seem to us to be so different. Even when I point out that so much of the similarities are invisible [...]
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Tags: biology, evolution, science, teaching
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