KABT BioBlog

 Cellular Respiration Lab with Grass Seed
This is a version of the AP Biology respiration lab that I’ve modified to be quicker and easier to accomplish in limited class time.  It also is teachers like me who realize at the last minute that they’re planning to do a lab for which a key supply is difficult to [...]

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Catalase Enzyme Activity Lab
This Catalase Enzyme Activity Lab has a technique which is easy for students (after the initial practice phase) and lets them gather multiple trials quickly and easily.  It’s powerful because it allows exploration of important biochemistry concepts while reinforcing data analysis and utilizing graphing techniques tested on state math assessments.
Each group explores one [...]

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Charles Darwin once wrote, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”  With that quote in mind, I decided to compile a few of the Darwin related resources that I have recently and happily become inundated with.  So, click, read, download, listen, and watch, all the while gaining knowlege and gradually losing any confidence that [...]

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At the EduCon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia, late this January, I came across the most profound, succinct, and employable explanation of “best practice” that I have ever seen.  I would like to make the argument that if all teachers in our schools employed this simple model, education would be revolutionized in this country.  On posters [...]

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When:    Thursday, February 12th, at 5:00pm
Where:  Linda Hall Library (Google Map)
This free event is open to the public.  It will include a birthday cake, special viewing of first edition copies of the Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle, and a brief presentation “Celebrating Charles Darwin“ by UMKC Professor Bill Ashworth.

Following the party guests [...]

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