Make a Heart Model with Recyclables!
Let’s make a heart model out of recyclable materials! As teachers, we’re always looking for fresh ways to help students understand complex ideas. The human heart, with all its chambers, valves, and blood flow, can be one of those tricky topics that’s hard for students to wrap their heads around. What better way to make learning the heart fun, interactive, and memorable?
Seven Ways to Ensure that Lab Clean Up Runs Smoothly
Lab clean up, just like any other task or procedure, must be carefully planned by the teacher and then taught to students. In this blog post, we’ll share seven practical tips and strategies to make lab clean-up not only efficient but also engaging and enjoyable!
Project Based Learning Challenge: Design and Test Pumpkin Helmets
A super fun project based learning activity where students take on a creative engineering challenge by designing and constructing their own pumpkin helmets using recyclable materials. Each student or group will be provided with a variety of materials such as cardboard, plastic bottles, foam, and tape. They will think critically about the properties of these items and put them together to create a helmet that can effectively protect a pumpkin, which will serve as the “head,” during a drop test.
Halloween Activities for High School Science with Plastic Skeletons
If you’re looking for creative halloween activities for high school science, you’re in for a treat (haha). From sculpting muscle groups on miniature skeletons to investigating forensic science with mock crime scenes, these activities not only make learning fun but also deepen your students’ understanding of human anatomy.
Best Ecology Project for High School: Save Species, Support Communities
Let me tell you about my absolute favorite Ecology project for my High School students. It is an ecology project that gives students choice in what they research, an actual problem to solve, real world issues to consider, and total creativity in how they solve the problem. Project based learning at its best!
Make a Dichotomous Key WITH your Students!
Students sometimes struggle to make a dichotomous key on their own. Creating one together as a class can be very helpful. This activity takes the fun one step further by actually using classmates as the subject of the Key itself!
Evolution and Speciation Activity for High School
This is a super fun speciation activity that has really helped my students understand the roles of random mutation and geographic isolation. The set up is simple and low prep, giving students a hands-on experience that they will remember!
How to Get a 5 on the AP Biology Exam
This AP Biology review packet covers every Topic, one at a time, for all eight Units. Questions are mostly open ended, asking students to make connections, predict outcomes, describe processes, label diagrams, and draw models. No fluff, no wasted space, no wasted time.
Make the Cell Membrane: A Hands-On Experience!
Give your students the experience of making the Cell Membrane! This hands-on approach has really helped my kids understand the structure of the cell membrane, the function of transport proteins, and the types of membrane transport!
Six Best FREE Interactive Biology Websites (that don’t use flash!)
If you are like me, you have spent hours trying out interactive biology websites, only to get frustrated and overwhelmed.
And then we lost Flash! That was a huge blow to me, and to science teachers all over the world! Compiled here are six of the best interactive biology websites that DON’T use flash, and are FREE!