Science teachers. Some basic graphs tips, maybe useful for Year 7?

Posters for science careers I happened upon. Please retweet if useful 🙂

Seeing discussion about cogsci/evidence based instruction after a wonderful USA Festival of Education Reposting my summaries of the BRILLIANT How Learning/Teaching Happens Paul A. Kirschner Carl Hendrick @HealJim THE go-to books for a summary of the evidence Pdfs here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

I reviewed this article for Science in School and it would be great for stretching students beyond the A level bio curriculum. Scroll down to the end for comprehension Q suggestions. #chatBiology Not junk after all: the importance of non-coding RNAs scienceinschool.org/article/2023/t…

One thing evident from the #PISA data is that allowing phones in the classroom is not good for student learning. Two things stand out: 1.Almost a third of students report being distracted by phones in class: “around 30% of students, on average across OECD countries, reported

Look what arrived today! Grappling with Graphs is a super useful book and an essential purchase for every Science dept. In addition to the printed book there are superb digital resources too. Thank you Amanda and Karen 🙂 👏👏👏👏👏

I saw someone post this activity a few years ago. Not sure who to thank but a nice little bit of investigative learning when teaching leaving cert biology about the villi in the small intestine for human nutrition #lcbiology

Science teachers. If you haven't seen it before, this link contains pretty much all the resources you will ever need. 1000s of files. Thank you to Mr Clayson for collating drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀 Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀 🧵

This is mind-blowingly bad.Most up-to-date study on Atlantic Ocean currents system shows signals of collapse.This could happen in 2025-2095 with 95% probability. Land to grow wheat may drop by half. Winter temperatures in North Europe could drop between 10 and 30 °C. 1/🧵

STEM teachers. This is a great list of STEM competitions that your pupils could take part in. Thanks to Paul Williamson for the tip🙂community.stem.org.uk/browse/stem-co…

Today my Y11 got the most beautiful curve for rate of respiration of yeast we have ever gotten. #BEoutstanding #edutwitter Chat Biology Debden Park High School

Last Sunday, Asimov Press published an article explaining why it's so hard to diagnose tuberculosis. Here are 10 interesting things we learned about TB while editing it: 1. TB (not malaria) is the deadliest infectious disease. It kills >1.2M people each year.

I always love how my board looks when I teach the kidney and the nephron!

Year 7 Science Christmas Quiz - 75 questions covering: Cells, Particles, Muscles & bones, Forces Editable PPT file so you can add/ remove questions. Can be used as a MWB quiz, a pub-quiz, quick fire etc. tes.com/resource-detai…

How to motivate Y12 to really make an effort retrieving everything they know about mitosis? With mitosis cookies, of course! Can't eat them unless I'm satisfied that all the info is there! Chat Biology Bakerlogy Cookie Cutters

Really proud of my Y12 for their beautiful results from our practical yesterday. They learnt how to prepare slides of garlic roots. We found so many phases in anaphase! #Microscopy #Biology

Scientists have uncovered how a protein named IRF1 supports the reprogramming of #macrophages to tune the innate immune response, which could inform efforts to predict or alter the functions of these immune cells. Science Signaling scim.ag/4jiBRBH

One of my favourite #ScienceClub activities using rhubarb to investigate how surface area affects the rate of reaction. tes.com/teaching-resou…