KABT BioBlog

Check out PvM’s  blog post on Panda’s Thumb that covers Neil Shubin’s book (Your Inner Fish) and a comparison he makes about hiccups in mammals vs fish vs amphibians–this is a great little tidbit to bring out when the moment is right. You’re going to like this…..
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The web gets better and better every day in the sense that important information is easier to organize, find, and categorize.  This web site is a small example.  Today’s biology teachers have an unprecedented access to original research.  It’s imperative that we take advantage of this in order to keep up with the developments [...]

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I’ve added an RSS feed to the Indiana biology teacher’s blog site over at the bottom of the right hand column.  An RSS feed checks in on the IABT Leading Strand periodically and looks for new postings.  You’ll find the titles of the 5 most recent postings listed in the feed.
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We’ve had a few discussions on the fundamentals of biology–what are the essential things to teach or for students to learn.  Over on the Daily Transcript at Science Blogs, you’ll find an interesting post that begins a discussion of the fundamental process in biology of the conversion of genotype (information) into phenotype (networks of networks [...]

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Podcast on the Evolution of Morality
While moral judgment is a trait found in all cultures, there is wide variation among moral systems. In this podcast segment, Science correspondent John Bohannon moderates a panel discussion on evolutionary and psychological perspectives on moral judgment. The panelists were Marc Hauser from Harvard University, David Wilson from Binghamton [...]

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Over the years the Monarch Watch project has adapted as it has tried to meet some of the challenges of monarch butterfly conservation while still promoting monarch research. It seems that monarch winter and summer habitat’s are changing even faster than our new knowledge of this fascinating organism. Early on work done by [...]

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For all of you bioteachers out there trying to find a new way to present the cell cycle to your classes (especially you AP Bioteachers) check out Jake Young’s blog post describing a new paper in Cell. Jake does a nice job explaining the paper, I think in a way that is accessible [...]

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[ September 13, 2008; ] 13 Sept.                 Kansas Assn. of Biology Teachers annual meeting, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS

Computer applications in biology classrooms.

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Stan Roth has provided his updated calendar–you’ll find a link in the left-hand column under KABT Info.
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One of the easiest organisms to raise in the classroom are the nematodes known as vinegar eels. Recently on the NSTA Biology listserv one of KABT’s own, Candy Surdez had the following to offer. I’ve contacted her and she has agreed to sharing her message here and she’ll be sending a pict or [...]

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