Today

Clams!!!!!

WORMS

WORMS! enough said.

Spring clips

Here is our lab for 7th grade. Spring clips! Just enjoy the pictures...

Here are a few songs written and performed by my students in Anatomy.
They are all about hormones. They might be a bit silly and long but the kids had a great time. ENJOY!

seventh grade -- kinetic and potential energy

here are my students doing a simple lab demonstrating the wonder of the transfer of energy compared to mass. They had a lot of fun...Enjoy the pictures...

AP Biology and Shoes....

This is what happens when students whine and whine and whine and so finally I give in to repeat a lesson done years previously (eight grade). Here we are, creating a dichotomous key for shoes...Crazy fun, I know!

Earth time Line

O.k. I admit. I do not enjoy teaching the time periods of Earth's history. I am not sure other than it always turns out rather boring to me and it seems to my students also since they doze much more often than normal.

So, few years back I decided to try a different method. I give each student a time period to learn about. The next day I have them draw a depiction of their time line...with the amount of space they get proportional to the amount of time it lasted. This helps them stay awake and helps them at least learn one of the time periods in great detail.

The last day I have each student stand in front of their time period and teach the class about what happened. And then...we hang it up for all to see. So awesome. And me? Well I get to take pictures and then blog the entire thing to share with others.