Science teachers

"I went into a cell, to get out of the rain, and there was the gatekeeper, the cell membrane. I went into a cell, and what did I see, the mitochondria, it's the energy factory. I went into a cell, and said "who drives this bus" and found myself talking to the boss, the nucleus. ..."

"Poplocks are a very clever system for making movable papercraft fastenings with die-cutting and folding. The Paper Pose-Ables site has a bunch of downloadable papercraft toys you can print out and make, as well as pre-cut/scored kits you can buy, for making fabulous poseable robots and other cool figures. .. the Poplocks system really makes for a great, semi-rigid joint for the toys."

"A straightforward lesson on the law of conservation of mass, which states that matter is neither created nor destroyed in a chemical reaction."

"How exactly does meiosis mix and halve chromosomes? Find out through this feature, which provides a step-by-step, side-by-side comparison of meiosis and mitosis."

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video by VCE Environmental Science Students

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"Great laboratory safety video. Worth asking students to reflect on the words when teaching science."

"This video created for high school biology students aims to illustrate the packaging of genetic material in the cell. Created for Sapling Learning in 2011. saplinglearning.com"

"CONASTA is the annual Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA). In 2013 CONASTA 62 will be hosted by the Science Teachers Association of Victoria (STAV) at La Trobe University, Melbourne 7-10 July. "

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Interesting read about dentistry, false teeth, and plundering teeth during war. Could fit into anatomy/physiology/biology units related to teeth/digestion/etc.

"a collection of images from some of my recent work"

anatomy mnemonics

On the evening of Monday, February 18, the Moon will occult (cover) Jupiter in Southern Australia (everywhere else sees it very close).  It will be quite spectacular with Jupiter's Moons being covered by the dark side of the Moon just before Jupiter.

"Students will build a lung model to learn how their lungs and diaphragm work to make them breathe. The lesson features a demonstration on how incomplete combustion of fossil fuels releases particles into the air that can negatively affect human health, and how we can protect ourselves from these effects."

"Lesson from TeachEngineering.org. Contributed by the Techtronics Program, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University. Note: This activity, part of a teachengineering curricular unit on Engineering and the Human Body that includes a lesson on the heart, could be enhanced with two preliminary heart-valve activities - Engineering the Heart and Saving a Life: Valve replacement"