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Welcome to the Triple A Learning blog for DP Biology. The most recent blog posts are listed below and you can access the blog archive by following the appropriate link in the panel on the left.

January 17, 2012

Professional development with Triple A Learning’s cost-effective online workshops

Filed under: Biology,Business & Management,CAS,Chemistry,Design technology,Economics,English,Environmental systems and societies (ESS),Film,Geography,History,ITGS,Mathematics,Music,Philosophy,Physics,Psychology,Social and cultural anthropology,Supporting Learning Communities,Theatre,TOK,Visual arts,Web 2.0 in the IB classroom — Tags: , , , , , — Paul Clark @ 12:41 pm

There is still time to take advantage of Triple A Learning’s cost-effective online workshops. Over the last three years we have trained over 4000 IB teachers on our IB authorised workshops, at both category 1 and category 3.

Follow the links below to see the range on offer. Our next session begins on FEBRUARY 20th. Do not miss out on these…book now to update your professional training. Our interactive workshops and resources will help take your career to the next level and support your classroom practice. Our courses cover subject-specific and whole-school topics and make the in-service training budget go further.

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December 16, 2011

Leading a workshop

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , — Stephen @ 4:52 pm

To become a workshop leader you need to apply to the IB through the OCC website. Experience with the programme is required.

Preparation leading to facilitating a workshop is a three to five month process that starts with an invite to a given workshop/destination. I was excited when asked in the summer to go to New Orleans for December 9. You then prepare your workbook online, and submit so that it can be printed in the locality of the given workshop well ahead of time. You also have to organise with the IBO travel agents appropriate flight details etc. I also email the participants once email addresses are finalised and send out a Google questionnaire, invite them to share a DropBox folder to add resources, and also a Diigo group where URL favourites can be shared.

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December 5, 2011

Goldfish and the Nitrogen cycle

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , , , , , , , — Stephen @ 3:10 pm


My son asked me earlier this year if he could have a goldfish. Sometime later he changed his mind and asked for a dog so we went out to buy a goldfish. Knowing nothing about goldfish we went to go buy one. The subsequent learning experience has had great relevance to my classroom. how-to-look-after-a-goldfish

Things I learnt

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November 24, 2011

Triple A donates new computers to One Laptop Per Child cause

Filed under: Arts,Biology,Business & Management,CAS,Chemistry,Design technology,Economics,English,Environmental systems and societies (ESS),Film,Geography,History,Humanities,ITGS,Language A,Language B: Welcoming our World's Cultures,Mathematics,Mathematics,Music,Philosophy,Physical Education,Physics,Psychology,Sciences,Social and cultural anthropology,Supporting Learning Communities,Technology,Theatre,TOK,Triple A Blogs,Visual arts,Web 2.0 in the IB classroom,Web 2.0 in the IB classroom — Tim Cunningham @ 11:20 pm
One Laptop per Child

Here at Triple A Learning, we’ve always supported the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) cause. With a mission to “empower the world’s poorest children through education“, who could fail to be moved by its ideals.

What OLPC believes

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November 23, 2011

Global studies of the spread of Influenza

Filed under: Biology — Stephen @ 5:29 pm

As the influenza season begins in the northern hemisphere I thought it a great time to draw your attention to two websites that hope to track influenza-like symptoms (ILIS) around the world.

The first is Google Flu Trends at (www.google.org/flutrends ). This relies on data provided by America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and from other such organisations in other countries. It gathers data from such things as sick notes handed out by doctors for flu like symptoms.

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November 9, 2011

simulations

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , , — Stephen @ 3:09 am

This is a quick post to share two neat sites I was introduced too today at a roundtable for Bio IA I attended.

Check out Phet simulations

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October 31, 2011

GM crops

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , , , , — Stephen @ 7:16 pm

The much lauded potential  improvements in the worlds food supply through GM crops has come under question recently with a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups representing millions of people.

The report says that only two traits have been developed on any significant scale and that in places such as China where insect resistant Bt cotton is widely planted, there has been an increase in the use of pesticides needed to combat the pests that previously were only a minor problem.

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October 3, 2011

Invasive species and conservation

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , , , — Stephen @ 5:49 pm

Two stories grabbed my attention this week in the news relating to the Ecology and Conservation option unit G.

One was the possible hunting of Canada geese (Branta canadenis) in France due to unexpected climbing numbers. Perhaps it caught my eye as I live in Canada. As the largest goose found in europe it was introduced into Britain in the 17th century; they are prolific breeders. At the end of the 1990′s there were only several hundred in France, now there are believed to be over 5000.

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September 26, 2011

Vaccines in the news

Filed under: Biology — Stephen @ 1:55 pm

Following on from last entry on Vaccines, please read below. The article is the recent editorial taken from Nature online

The wrong message on vaccines

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September 22, 2011

Vaccines

Filed under: Biology — Stephen @ 1:39 pm

Vaccinations took a major setback in the late 1990′s with the publication in The Lancet of a paper written by Andrew Wakefield linking autism to the MMR vaccine. The Lancet have now distanced themselves from the findings, calling the paper a hoax and Andrew Wakefield a fraud. (Also check out the link from Bad Science.)

So it was with a resounding sigh of relief that the National Academy of sciences has concluded within a 667 page report that there is no link between immunisations and autism or other serious medical conditions.

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