Category Archives: Teaching
Student Influences in Science (TV)
A couple of news stories caught my eye last weekend, both from The Guardian, both featuring Professor Brian Cox, both about science television programmes. I suppose I should begin by stating for the record that I really like television and … Continue reading
ISA Planning (AQA)
It’s that ISA time of year and getting the students to do the planning is always hard. Like the man said you can take a horse to water but you can’t make it do breast stroke. The indigestible, unexplainable, indescribable, inimitable @TeachingOfSci has … Continue reading
DNA Replication
Here’s a lesson activity on DNA Replication that I did today Starter: I used this activity from TES Resources where students have to spot the mistakes in the DNA molecule. I got students to come up to the IWB to … Continue reading
DNA Models
I do like DNA, it’s when A Level Biology gets to the nuts and bolts of it all; the molecule of the century in my opinion. If it’s getting late and I’m getting a little boisterous then I often claim that … Continue reading
Building A Muscle Model
Adapted from the SNAB Resource Some online resources I use when teaching the sliding filament theory This has a good overview of muscle cell structures I like the action of tropomyoson and tropnin on this one From The Wellcome Trust … Continue reading
Biological Molecules Summary Cards
One of the fun things about teaching a specification that you haven’t taught in a while is trawling through your old resources and seeing if there is anything that you used to do that you might be able to resurrect. The … Continue reading
Comparison Alley
I’m not brilliant at reading other teachers blogs, there are a lot of good ones and I often forget to look at what they’ve written. I also often see a lot of great ideas but they are often from non-scientists … Continue reading
Red Pen Bad, Green Pen Good
It’s a snow day, so I’ve been doing the usual procrastinating while listening to BBC6 Music wishing I could listen to the radio at work. In between the CV updating, lesson planning and MSc pondering I have had twitter on … Continue reading
The Lock & Key Hypothesis
I love enzymes; nature’s little miracles as an essay question once described them as. Without them there would be life as the global mean surface temperature of the earth isn’t hot enough for key redox reactions to occur fast enough to maintain … Continue reading
Naming Molecules
I don’t completely get chemistry, to me it’s a lot like magic and that’s cool. I know enough to teach A Level Biology and one day I might get round to getting my AS in chemistry which I think would … Continue reading
