by cbrookallred | Apr 16, 2015 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
Written by Sara Trincao-Batra. To give context, this activity was done at the end of the Nutritional Science unit of SNC4M. I chose to do this activity at the end of the unit because the class I was teaching had a test review the next day. This activity was a great...
by cbrookallred | Apr 13, 2015 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
Settlers of Yellowstone: A Population Interaction Simulation Written by Amie Oxler Incorporating inquiry-based learning into science-based curriculum is an excellent way to allow for student-based learning. However, non-laboratory centred units, such as the Population...
by cbrookallred | Apr 9, 2015 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
Is it nature or nurture? That was the theme of a Café Scientifique in Toronto, hosted by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Three experts talked about the field of epigenetics and how the ‘nature or nurture’ debate is a futile argument. Recent...
by cbrookallred | Mar 26, 2015 | Gr. 11-12 Biology, Teaching Strategies
One of the challenges I faced in teaching evolution to SBI3U was making an abstract concept something the students could grasp. Evolution is a subject fraught with misconceptions and can be a very hard process to imagine. Like all of science, there is a particular...
by msander | Mar 9, 2015 | Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-f9epWuuA&w=728&h=408] The arrangement of the letters in your DNA sequence is not the only thing that shapes you—there’s also the mechanisms that decide what genes get turned on or off, and when. Recently, a...
by msander | Mar 2, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
If you traced your family tree back 185 million generations, you wouldn’t be looking at a human, a primate, or even a mammal. You’d be looking at a fish. So where along that line does the first human show up? The answer may surprise you. Inspired by...
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