High School Science Lessons on Human Impact and Engineering
A factory carbon capture system filters carbon dioxide out of smoke before it drifts into the air, a prime example of the kind of technical intervention students analyze in this Mitigating Human Impact on California Systems lesson. For your biology or earth and space... read more
High School Biology: Growing and Changing from Zygote to Redwood
The most common mistake I see in high school biology classrooms is the assumption that students inherently understand the difference between simply growing larger and becoming more complex. They often conflate mitosis with differentiation as if they are the exact same... read more
High School Science: Simulating Solutions to Complex Problems
When you have a student who needs to catch up on coursework or someone who needs a targeted intervention in a high school science setting, finding material that moves beyond basic fact memorization is a challenge. The Simulating Solutions to Complex Problems lesson is... read more
Teaching High School Biology Trait Variation and Statistics
My students frequently hit a wall when we start talking about population genetics. They see an average height or a median color and decide that is the only data point that counts. They want to ignore the edges of the bell curve as if those individuals are errors or... read more