Imagine teaching your biology students how to use a compound microscope without using innumerable variations of “don’t touch anything until you have completed the directions”, without hearing your name at least 100 times during each class period and without coming perilously close to loosing your patience. What follows is a brief description of a method [...]
Entries from July 2008
The Invisible Microscope
July 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Labs · Teaching Resources
“You can see photosynthesis happening.”
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Today I had the privilege of presenting the Floating Leaf Disk Photosynthesis lab to a group of enthusiastic Cornell Institute for Biology Teaching (CIBT) teachers. I really enjoyed my brief time with these folks that gave up 2 weeks of their summer to learn more biology–specifically labs that work for their students.
One of the participants, [...]