Posts by Brad Williamson

Teaching Quantitative Skills:  Data Analysis

Teaching Quantitative Skills: Data Analysis

Managing labs has got to be one of the most difficult things we do as biology teachers.  There is so...

Establishing an Experimental Procedure to Guide the Home Investigation

Establishing an Experimental Procedure to Guide the Home Investigation

Moving from the bulk reaction of yeast (catalase) and H2O2 to a procedure that can produce reasonable, reliable and precise data without...

Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Lab Context: Getting Started in the Classroom

Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Lab Context: Getting Started in the Classroom

Some background on my teaching approach (which you may not agree with): A few years ago a young math teacher,...

Teaching Quantitative Skills using the Floating Disk Catalase Lab:  Intro

Teaching Quantitative Skills using the Floating Disk Catalase Lab: Intro

I find it remarkable how deeply the biology education community has embraced the call to increase quantitative skills in biology....

Get Ready and Sign up for DNA Day

Last year, the biology folks at the University of Kansas adapted a successful program from the University of North Carolina:...