BIOLOGY UPDATES PWSD

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Lessons/Projects/Assignments Workbook in Progress: Leanne and I have been working

on a biology 30 workbook. Currently we have Chapter 18-20 completed

they are in our drop box. Have a look, try them out and provide some

feedback.

Photosynthesis Model: Penny and I have created a

photosynthesis lab model to try. If you are going to use it, please take

some photos and give us some feedback. It is in our drop box.

Hands-on Activities – this is an awesome website. Lots of

great ideas and readymade labs ~ enjoy!

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/

Here is a link to DNA Origami – this would be excellent

for students who are tactile learners.

http://www.yourgenome.org/teachers/origami.shtml

Who Ate the Cheese - Neat worksheet working with DNA –

Thanks Leanne! It is our drop box.

How DNA controls the Workings of the Cell –

another neat assignment for DNA, thanks again to Leanne! It is our

drop box.

“ARE WE BIOLOGY OR GOD OR SOMETHING HIGHER? I KNOW MY HEART BEATS AND I

LISTEN TO IT. THE BEST IS BIOLOGY, BUT WHAT IS THE SONG?” ~ JAMES FREY

BIOLOGY NEWS!

Fragile X Protein Linked to Nearly

100 Genes Involved in Autism! ~

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release

s/2012/12/121212134052.htm

Biocompatible Patch Developed to

Heal Infants with Birth Defects ~

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release

s/2012/12/121212111329.htm

ISSUE #1

Fun Christmas ideas for Biology Addicts!

Weird World: Corneas are the only tissues

that don’t require blood.

INTERESTING FACT:

THE LIGHTEST ORGAN IN THE HUMAN BODY IS

THE LUNG!

December 2012

GREAT CLIPS AND WEBSITES

Neat video on some optical illusions - this may be

something to watch during the special senses or during the

brain section. http://i-biology.net/

Great video for introducing the brain - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0124k6t There are several other

amazing videos on this website.

Lots of lesson plans - http://www.lessoncorner.com/Science/Biology

Fun Review Assignment for Mendel and Heredity - http://www.quia.com/rr/31066.html

Lots out Review Assignments for Science 10, Biology 20/30 - http://teacherweb.com/VA/BaysideHigh/Brumley/hf3.stm

Collection of quick clips to start units or wrap up things,

these are amazing clips to grab your attention!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/top-10-amazin-1/

Naked mole rat seems to be immune to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and osteoporosis, and an amazing life span.

BIOLOGY IS THE SCIENCE. EVOLUTION IS THE CONCEPT THAT MAKES BIOLOGY UNIQUE.

~ JAROD DIAMOND

Biology is the only science in which multiplication is the same thing as

division.

Ergot Fungus growing on Wheat Cell Division and gene expression in plant cells Retrieved from http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-biology-you-have-never-seen-it

WEIRD BIOLOGY FACTS!

Polar bears are left handed.

A cockroach will live 9 days

without its head before it starves

to death.

Elephants are the only animals

that can’t jump.

On one square inch of human

skin there are 20 million

microscopic creatures.

The forces required to remove a

foot from quicksand at the speed

of one centimeter per second

would require the same amount

of force as “that needed to lift a

medium sized car”

ISSUE #2

DECEMBER 2012

GREAT READS

Synthetic Biology: the BeSt hope for mankind’S future? ~ If GM is agriculture’s Fort Cortina, synthetic biology could

five us Ferrari crops that feed the world without harming the planet. This

would be an interesting topic for biology 20.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/29/synthetic-biology-

best-hope-mankind

History of Medicine, Second Edition: A Scandalously Short Introduction by Jacalyn Duffin ~this may be an interesting

read for over Christmas, thought you may enjoy.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/History-Medicine-Second-Edition-

Scandalously-Jacalyn-Duffin/9780802095565-

item.html?ikwid=history+of+medicine&ikwsec=Books

UPCOMING DATES

In the new year my days for visiting

schools will be Tuesdays or

Thursdays. I will be sending out an

email in the new years to start

scheduling. I hope everyone has a

Merry Christmas and a very relaxing

holidays.

Biocomplexity.

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”

~Theodosius Dobzhansky

BIOLOGY ALWAYS BEATS WILL POWER.

~MEHMET OZ

Neat Video

(45 minutes)

Brave New World with Stephen

Hawking.

How Science Is Striving For

Humankind S Next Leap Forward

ISSUE 2

DECEMBER 2012

Write captions for the selected photos.