WMS Science Teachers

some great ideas for projects and ways of incorporating bioinformatics into the bio curriculum.

great ideas about how you can use technology in science classes to help students explore science on their own by connecting with real scientists. 

cool use of smartphone as microscope, with applications for use in remote areas

eight bases to DNA? Not four? How do bio text writers keep up with all this change? 

some really great images of cells and cell processes.

Interesting site. Linked to a book but has lots of ideas for classroom work, labs, student activities that don't require use of their book. Some interesting thoughts on pre-assessment and ways to accomplish that.

This article summarizes a great method for providing feedback for group work. 

This looks very interesting. I like the idea of live/ immediate feedback about the group work. I tried some group work this year but struggled with how to give feedback and how to ensure all students really participated in the process. It would be interesting to know what size groups people think work best. I kind of like the idea of posting the feedback like that, but I do understand the concerns voiced. One immediate issue it addresses is: students would not think you are on the laptop "goofing off" AND, for students who aren't really sure what you are looking for in terms of executing the task, this would give them great feedback.

interesting site with thousands of images/ photos/ pics. put in your search word and see what comes up. could be cool to use as part of QR code work/ "wonder" activities, etc

This is a new blog started by a AP bio teacher. I figure it might end up having some useful things on it, but even if there's not content that is of immediate use, it might prove to be a good example of a way to use a blog in a classroom.

This is a great tool that lets you chop youtube videos and share only a portion of them. 

looks esp cool for physics. this is a professor from MIT who took some (very famous) amazing pictures of images reflecting droplets, human movement, bullets, etc. really worth checking out.

cool article that references use vitamin E to block release of an enzyme the brain normally releases after stroke. The enzyme however ends up facilitating activity that leads to cell death, so if you block it, you can save brain cells.

very interesting post about how genomic research is transforming medicine.

cool site listing all the 'wildlife" living in your belly button

great ted talk about evolution of flowers

very cheap pcr machine you build yourself

awesome advice on implementing pbl

Very interesting article about a normal man with 44 chromosomes. Could be used to add some complexity/depth to genetics unit