In My Classroom: Going Bananas for Phenomenon Based Teaching

I originally drafted this “In my classroom” as a way to talk about this cool lab that I used to...

Data Analysis in a Natural Selection Simulation

I really like the HHMI Biointeractive activity “Battling Beetles”. I have used it, in some iteration (see below), for the...

Was in my Classroom: A Biotechnology Program

Was in my Classroom: A Biotechnology Program

I got some really great news recently: some of my biotech students from last year are insisting that the program...

Plotting Error Bars in Google Sheets?…..on a scatter plot????

Plotting Error Bars in Google Sheets?…..on a scatter plot????

Robbyn Tuinstra, tri-athlete and AP Bio teacher extraordinaire recently had a question about putting error bars on scatter plot data...

Assessing the Science and Engineering Practices

Assessing the Science and Engineering Practices

I have been thinking a lot about the message that I want to send to students about science and reflecting...