Soil Matters Too!
This lesson will introduce students to the basics of decomposition and microbial soil respiration and how these processes influence the carbon cycle.
Blood Typing Lab
This lab (lesson) will allow students to gain a modeled laboratory experience of how surface antigens (proteins)on blood cells are used to identify the type of blood we (humans) have. I will set-up the lab as CSI crime scene where students solve who the murderer is based on “blood” evidence.
Communication and Collaboration to Achieve a Group Task
This ETP is primarily focuses on the collaborative process of students learning information and teaching that information to their group (jigsaw) to establish background information for an experiment using the scientific method.
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Coral Bleaching: Multiple Perspectives in Ecology Curriculum
Coral bleaching research is at the heart of my fellowship in the Pringle Lab at Stanford, where they study the symbiosis between reef-building corals and dinoflagellate algae. This symbiosis is crucial to the survival of coral reefs.
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Dilutions Crash Course
The Goal of this ETP is to have students learn the basic math and science skills needed to perform dilutions correctly and on their own. Dilutions are a very integral part of everyday science /laboratory work but most students entering biology do not possess this skill.
Don't Forget the Proteins!!!
In the last several decades so much attention has been in genetic advances and DNA and rightly so, but to ignore the expression of the genetics through proteins is a disservice to those advancements.
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If the Geologic Time Scale had an Instagram..
The Payne Paleobiology Lab at Stanford University focuses on extinction risks in marine animals.
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Mystery of the Missing Teacher
In this lab the students will be creating genetic fingerprints to compare DNA that was found at a crime scene with the victim and the suspects.
Predicting Forest Health: Sudden Oak Death in Coast Live Oak Trees
Sudden Oak Death (SOD) is a disease caused by an introduced oomycete (water mold) called Phytophthora ramorum and is infecting various tree species in the Northern & Central California range, most specifically coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia), the dominant oak species in this range.