After all you've taught the kids about inheritance, teaching pedigrees should be a piece of cake, right? Give them a chart, look at the colored in squares or circles, and determine the inheritance pattern. And now you have yourself a nice little pedigree lesson. Easy, right?! Well, not exactly, …
5 Helpful Tips for Teaching
Classroom Success: 5 Tips for Motivating Plus 7 Tips for Building Confidence
I. Motivation If you are working with students that are non-learners or unmotivated, you may feel that you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. For these students that are simply not motivated, you can encourage them by developing positive relationships with them. I used a lot of humor …
5 Tips for Teaching Classification (in a modern world)
When it comes to teaching classification, you may be using a text book with outdated information. The superfamilies, the supergroups, the superdupergroups...the cladistics vs. the evolutionary systematics vs. the wait-a-second-they-actually-overlap-more-than-we-thought ... you feel me?I open up …