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2008 OBTA NOMINATIONS FOR KANSAS

The National Association of Biology Teachers invites nominations for the Kansas Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for 2008. All biology/life science instructors (grades 7-12) with at least three years teaching experience in public, private, or parochial schools are eligible and self-nominations are invited. NABT membership is […]

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KABTer’s might want to check out Jeremy’s and Cindy’s blog: stand up for REAL science.

I’ve added a link to the KABT links
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A few years ago one of my more accomplished students was kind enough to give me a parting gift of David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo, and even though the book is more generally about the scientific development of Island Biogeography (as the subtitle states), the authors historical accounts of the concept inspired an […]

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On the classroom side of things, I have developed/modified the following assignments and activities in recent years in the hopes of highlighting the importance of Wallace and biogeography to evolutionary theory, and giving my students real world examples that they can work through to infer the process of speciation that Darwin and Wallace first uncovered.  Suggestions […]

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Pat W. has added the last three newsletters to the site–you’ll find them under “Newsletter archives” in the left hand column. Also, when a comment is made to a post you’ll often not see it if the post is far down the page. You can subscribe to comments (not be email but […]

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After reading the postings lately, I also have thought back retrospectively in my teaching experiences. I have to say that most of my students that come back to talk ALWAYS refer to some outdoor experience we had - whether it was a simple trip to seine a local pond, or if it was developing […]

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Investigating microbial ecosystems using a Winogradsky Column
Introduction
Winogradsky Columns are named after Sergei Winogradsky, a Russian microbiologist who used the columns throughout his career to study microbial ecology. In the classroom, Winogradsky Columns are incredibly simple tools with which students can explore a variety of topics. Topics such as succession, nutrient cycling, and microbiology […]

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Just a reminder to KABT Board members:  I’ve updated the board web site to include email notification and Todd contributed a nice note about the recent meeting on the board site…
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At the beginning of the new year, the Monarch Watch added a blog to their online communication.  Their blog will take the place of the monthly email updates.  You can see that they’ve done a good job of the design and the information is easily referenced.

For those KABT folks that participate in Monarch Watch check […]

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The essay mentioned in Brad’s previous post did a very nice job of conveying some of the beauty and the mystery which, I would imagine for most of us, are what draw us to the immensely vast and wonderful study of life.  It is this beauty that I know we strive to convey to our […]

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