Transcript Teacher Quality Grant

Biology Partnership
(A Teacher Quality Grant)
NABT Conference
November 2013
http://paec.org/biologypartnership/
Leadership Team:
Linda Fitzhugh, Ph.D.
Susan Butler, Ph.D.
Deborah Aylor
Fledia Ellis
Mona Ramirez
Tammy Stundon
Nancy Dow
Jill Hansen
Gulf Coast State College
Panhandle Area Educational
Consortium
5230 West Highway 98
753 West Boulevard
Panama City, Florida 32401
Chipley, Florida 32428
850-769-1551
877-873-7232
http://gulfcoast.edu
http://paec.org/
Biology Partnership: A Teacher Quality Grant
• Funding and the partnership we created
• Workshops
– Biology content; lectures; hands-on activities;
problem-based studies; labs; manipulatives
– Pedagogy and the Lesson Study Process
– Science equipment
– Outcomes: pre/post tests, EOC results, lesson plans
• Master Teachers, Teaching Mentors, Traveling
Mentors
• Today’s activities will be on the Biology
Partnership website, as well.
Nature of Science
Genetic Drift Activity
Invasive Species Lab
Lion Fish Video
Photo: weheartit.com
The most important resource we can give you:
http://www.paec.org/biologypartnership/
- Sample lesson plans
- All Master Teacher presentations and activities
http://www.genome.gov/
Tons of activities… from the Human Genome Project.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/tour/
Interactive activities!
http://www.sciencesupport.net/geneticstutorial.html
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/geneprob.htm
- A case problem
Everything Mendel didn’t know– a review of the more complex
inheritance patterns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIe7mPXkYhs
Eye Color and genes: a simple visual for the variety of melanin
present in eye colors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjBZaed9yzM
The Double Helix Game:
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/dna_double_helix/
www.khanacademy.org
learn.genetics.utah.edu
evolution.berkeley.edu
Follow up
•Q & A
•FREE STUFF
Animation: www.bhpanthers.org