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April 4, 2011

Earth Day:


Earth day is juts around the corner. Well actually its on April the 22nd. Earth day Web

Each year when Earth day comes around or for that matter any of the “green” save the planet day I start to get worried. As firstly THE TEACHER OF ESS, I find that almost automatically I, we , us are seen as the guys who should be taking the lead on letting our colleagues and students know about such days and events.

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April 2, 2010

Introducing – The Castrating Trematode

Filed under: Global Contexts — Tags: , , , — triplea_ble @ 1:31 pm

As an MYP science teacher, I’m always on the lookout for new and exciting invasive species stories. You can only do Kudzu and Zebra mussels so many times before you get sick of them. Mind you, not as sick as people from Georgia or cottagers in Ontario…

Anyway, I was listening to the radio the other day and sure enough, one fell into my lap – the New Zealand Mudsnail. You can listen to the podcast here from CBC (about 3/4 of the way in).

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