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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.

February 27, 2012

Phenology

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , , , — Stephen @ 7:48 pm

I recently  bought a book Phenology – the study of times of recurring natural phenomena especially in relation to climate. Its an interesting read with lots of useful activities for students and though it is rather focussed on organisms found in the UK it has great teaching ideas for observing the affects of climate change.

I then found links to websites that involve observing Nature’s calendar, inspiring students about the natural world and helping make them make a meaningful contribution to the climate change issue and become a citizen scientist. Visit  http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/secondary to register with the project (UK only), its free.

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February 20, 2012

The BBC read my post?

Filed under: Biology — Stephen @ 2:10 pm

Just opened up my computer and read this article a day after writing my post on the Peta competition for tissue engineered meat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16972761

February 19, 2012

Peta race for artificial meat.

Filed under: Biology — Tags: , , , , — Stephen @ 2:30 pm

“People are surprised to learn that PETA is interested in lab-grown meat, but we have overcome our own revulsion at flesh-eating to champion a breakthrough that will mean a far kinder world for animals. One million dollars is a lot of money, but it’s a small price to pay for something that has the potential to save about 1 million lives every hour.”

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February 11, 2012

Anatomy for beginners

Originally shown on Channel 4 in the UK (2005),  take a look at these extremely educational videos on human anatomy.

The human dissections can be difficult to watch, though my students find them fascinating, and they are excellent for delivery of the human physiology section of the syllabus. I have shown the DVD lectures on Digestion and Movement to my Grade 12 classes for several years and now find them on YouTube, each lecture segmented into 5 sections all under 10 minutes. The videos are age restricted (18+)

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January 17, 2012

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

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


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

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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