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All teacher
documents were originally
created in Microsoft
Word and
some were saved as Web Pages. Those may be easily copied and
pasted
back into Word
for making any changes
desired. However, some
of the files don't translate back into Word that
well. So, some
files are in Word only.
Where files are
in both htm or
html and Word
you can click on the Word
icon after the
link. You can save the Word files in Word
and make
any changes you want. If you don't have Microsoft
Word, you
can get Word
Viewer or download the free LibreOffice to open and edit the files.
Management
Tips
- All
biology teachers should start
the year by having students and parents/guardians sign a "Student
Safety Contract"
 .
I have included an optional "Web Page Permission" form
in the Word version
in case you have a class web
page in which you
would like to include pictures. It can easily be
deleted.
- Show
this "Lab
Safety"
video (requires Windows Media
Player 10 or above)
that was provided by Renee Diamond of the NSTA
Listserve.
The music in the video is from a band called "rhythm,
rhyme,
results." Spaces in
the song are meant for students
to fill in the blanks with the correct lab safety procedure.
- This
Sponge Bob "Science Safety Rules"
activity is primarily for middle school students.
- For
labeling beakers, flasks,
etc., I find printing the labels and taping them with "invisible" tape
the easiest for removing later. For permanent labels I use
transparent
tape. Here is the document I use for making the beaker/flask
labels
and the dropper
bottle labels
(one example left in tables).
- All
my lesson plans are printed
using Word
as well. Here is an example
and the template .
- This
generic graph paper
comes in handy when writing up your own labs.
- Or
have students make graphs online at "Create
a Graph."
- All
the biology reviews for Glencoe's Biology:
the Dynamics of Life (2000) are
on www.quia.com
and linked to this
page.
- PowerPoint
presentations
designed by students are a great alternative to written
reports.
This
document has written instructions for producing a presentation and
this
is a scoring rubric for the presentation. You will need Adobe
Reader to download the
rubric. Get it here
 . This
storyboard template
can be duplicated and used by students to design their projects and
this
example
demonstrates one way to set up the storyboard.
- Students
and especially parents
find having a class page with assignments and other class information
very
helpful. Here is an example
of one of my former class web pages. You can create your own
website with the free Microsoft
Office Live Small Business
tools.
Just be sure to sign up for the Basic
service.
- Use
these tips for "Teaching 90-minute
Time Blocks" .
- I
created a page for the review of the biology core standards in the
Massachusetts
Curriculum Frameworks. It include previous tests and links for further
study. Find it at "MCAS
Biology Review."
- If
you use Glencoe's "Biology:
The Dynamics of
Life," I created
a site for students at my former school with resources to accompany the
chapters covered in that book at "Bristol-Plymouth
Biology."
- NSTA
provided this powerpoint presentation on "Teaching
Science Safely"
 .
- Mrs.
Michal Kreiselman, Ph.D., a biology teacher at Architecture and Digital
Arts Magnet, Kennedy High-School starts her school year by sending this
letter
home to parents. She also has students do a "Scavenger
Hunt"
to get acquainted with her course and uses this scoring rubric .
Finally, she uses this "Thinking Maps"
PowerPoint presentation in her
introduction to the students.
She
has many
other resources on "Mrs.
Kreiselman, Biology."
- If
you don't have gradebook program, you might want to try the free
Engrade
online gradebook.
It allows students and parents to check grades online.
Games,
Puzzles, Songs, Videos
- Paul Koenig has recently published a CD of "Bio-io-ology" songs. Listen to an mp3 preview of the "DNA" song or listen to all of the previews and purchase the CD or individual songs at cdbaby.com.
- Play the "Global Handwashing Day 2011 Game" from the edugames4all website.
- Use
the "Science
Jeopardy" Game
as a review for tests.
- Review
vocabulary with the "Science
Taboo" Game
- Biology
songs by Dr. Art are for
sale at: http://www.biosongs.com/index.htm
- Preview
one of his songs: "Amino
Acids are Surrendered."
(You can save the song by
right-clicking
on the link and selecting "Save Target As.")
- You
will need Real Player
to listen to the song. Download it here:
- Create
Wordsearches, Criss-Cross
puzzles, and many more online with Discovery
School's "Puzzlemaker"
.
- Convince
your school district
to purchase a license for videos at unitedstreaming.com.
(You can even sign up for a 30-day free "home schooling"
trial.)
This is a
 site.
- Here
is a template
for creating Jeopardy games in PowerPoint
with the
instructions .
- Review
for tests and quizes with "Science Baseball" .
- Scientific
American
publishes "Sci-doku"
Puzzles monthly that contain science related clues.
- Jeopardy
reviews, video clips, PowerPoints,
and much more on
various biology topics found at the "Copernicus
Project."
- The PBS
video series, "Journey
to Planet Earth," includes many teacher
resources, including lesson
plans, activities, and much more.
- Biology Movie
Worksheets from the New
York Science Teacher.
- "Parade
of Games" in PowerPoint
contains 16
different games with examples and templates to download.
- "Who
Wants to Win A Million Dollars"
online science and math game
from Jefferson Labs.
- Use
Mark Damon's PowerPoint
template to create your own "Hollywood Squares"
game. (Right-click on ppt icon and select "Save Target As" to
use) The instructions are in this "Notepad"
file.
- Review for
your semester exam with this "Biology Review Jeopardy" game.
- Frank
Gregorio has several good introductory biology videos on his vimeo
site.
Links
- The Listen Current site has exellent lesson plans for middle and high school students if you sign up for FREE: http://listencurrent.com
- Check out this environmental science website: http://www.environmentalscience.org/
- Some good lesson plans and other resources (click on "science" for the lesson plans): http://www.edusource.org/lesson-plans.php
- As Many Exceptions as Rules is a blog with many fascinating biological anomalies: http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.com/
- Great site to find online schools for biology degrees: http://onlinebiologydegree.org/.
- Free
study guides and flash cards: http://www.biology101.org/
- A
useful dictionary, thesaurus, and more: http://dictionary.reference.com/
- Lesson
Corner
has many searchable biology lessons: http://www.lessoncorner.com/Science/Biology
- Glencoe
Biology: the Dynamics
of Life: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/biology/bio2004/index.html
- NIH
(National Institute of Health)
Curriculum supplements: http://science-education.nih.gov/Customers.nsf/HighSchool.htm
- Flinn
Scientific, Inc. http://www.flinnsci.com/
- Hands-on
activities: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/
- Biology
in Motion activities
and exhibits: http://biologyinmotion.com/index.html
- The
Biology Corner has
great worksheets, labs, etc.: http://www.biologycorner.com/
- McGraw/Hill
Biology: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/student_view0/
- Biology
Education--a peer reviewed
e-journal by K-16 educators: http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/BEOn/index.html
- "Rediscovering
Biology: Molecular
to Global Perspective" video series (must sign up for free): http://www.learner.org/resources/series187.html#
- Biology
labs online: http://www.okc.cc.ok.us/biologylabs/index.htm
- Howard
Hughes Medical Institute's Biointeractive site (you can also order free
education DVD's): http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/index.html
- The
Biology Place has "BioCoach", "LabBench," and "Glossary" sections: http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/
- Students
from Montana State University's Science and Natural History
Filmaking
graduate program have posted a series of science and nature films
called TERRA: The Nature
of Our World. To view
the videos you need Quicktime
 . You
can access the
videos at: http://terravideos.blogspot.com/
- Some
good animations though some pages are no longer accessible: http://home.earthlink.net/~shalpine/
- BiologyMad
has many resources and a forum to exchange ideas: http://www.biologymad.com/
- Some
good cell biology animations: http://www.johnkyrk.com/
- Teacher's
Domain's
Life Sciences 9-12 section indexes all of the PBS
teacher resources
by toopic: http://www.teachersdomain.org/9-12/sci/life/index.html
- This Prentice
Hall
site contains PDF color files
for making transparencies
on many topics: http://www.phschool.com/science/ca_sci_exp_transparencies/
- You
can dowload nonprintble copies of student texts or printable copies
of teacher guides of Global
Systems Science for
free by registering: http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/gss/index.html
- Great
site for high-quality, FREE, science web interactives from all
over
the world that is organized by National Science Education Standards: http://www.learningscience.org/index.htm
- Molecular
Workbench has
many interactive models for biology. Click on "Showcase" and
choose
"Biology": http://mw.concord.org/modeler/index.html
- Links,
teaching ideas, worksheets, and much more: http://www.embracechallenge.net/
- "The
Biology Binder" has notes, quizes, activities, printables, and
links: http://home.comcast.net/~clupold96/
- Information
on Biology and its sub sciences in the form of tutorials,
references,
dictionary of biology terms and forums: http://www.biology-online.org/
- Good
biology clip-art: http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Science/Biology
- Good
biology PowerPoint
presentations submitted by teachers: http://www.worldofteaching.com/biologypowerpoints.html
- Great
animated tutorials with narration: http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/biology/biology.html
- Free
stuff for science teachers: http://scienceinquirer.wikispaces.com/freestuff
- Biology
files and lessons from We The
Teachers: http://wetheteachers.com/browse.php?top=Biology&med=&sub=9&gr=.
. .
- Tools
for teachers from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/education/en-us/teachers/guides/Pages/free-tools.aspx
- Free
teaching guides and videos from Conoco
Phillips: http://www.teachingtools.com/
- Cheryl
Massengale has class notes, activities,
labs, PowerPoints,
and much more.
Her site has moved to http://www.biologyjunction.com/
- Some
good biology animations
from Indiana University: http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/animations/An1.html
- If
you are located in
Southeastern Massachusetts, the Taunton
River Watershed
Alliance has great activities
and workshops: http://savethetaunton.org/
- Biology
at
NCHS has some
good PowerPoint presentations: http://www.unit5.org/biology/index.html
- Karen
Bledsoe's biology
website has useful study guides and PowerPoint
presentations: http://www.wou.edu/~bledsoek/
- Exploring
Nature Educational
Resource: http://www.exploringnature.org/
- In
New
York Science Teacher you will find science labs, demonstrations,
lesson plans, activities, movie worksheets, notes, regents review
materials, educational related information and much more: http://newyorkscienceteacher.com/sci/
- A
life science search engine: http://vadlo.com/
- TheTour
de Turtles
website
has many activities, games, and videos about the migration of turtles: http://tourdeturtles.org/activities.php
- Want
to
know how to use
Podcasts or Vodcasts in your classroom? Try Educational
Vodcasting: http://mast.unco.edu/vodcasting//.
- FREE
Biotechnology magazines: http://biosciregister.tradepub.com/?pt=cat&page=Biop
- Some ideas and links for biology lesson plans from StartLocal.com: http://www.startlocal.com.au/articles/educational_biology_lesson.html
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Science
in the News
Sarah
Faulkner of Sedgwick
Middle School, in West Hartford,
CT contributed this "Science
Current
Events"
worksheet to assess student readings of science in the news.
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