Scott Harkness

#apbio Ss made their own memes for review of gene expression unit. It brought some fun back into the sterile distance learning 🙂

#bio students investigated SA:vol ratio and diffusion rates. Some really great ideas

@BFranckoTeaches Thanks...nice to see how others answers compare to mine before going over them with students. Im curious about a couple Q's though. Can you DM?

My annual take on the #apbio released FRQs. This attempt took me 35:22. Comments welcome. docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn…

Students getting to interrogate the suspects during forensics club. All the suspects came dressed in character. Next up...fingerprint collection and analysis #forensics

@justintarte @Dassel It takes time and effort to hold students accountable without dangling grades over their head. It's tough though as grade penalty is a lot easier

@justintarte @Dassel Proactive discussions with the class about the impact on learning and early intervention once students hand in assignment in late has worked for me. Also, students giving up their time to complete assignment as well.

If a student turns something in late, it doesn’t mean the student knows the content less. Similarly, just because a student turned it in on time, doesn’t mean the student knows the content more. Grade learning, not behaviors.

@howie_hua Unfortunately the infrastructure needs to change to match current pedagogy (or adragogy). Hard to change to student-centred, collaborative lessons in a 400 student lecture hall.

Professors absolutely 100% need to take pedagogy classes. The stories that I'm hearing from students are ridiculous. Content knowledge doesn't substitute for pedagogy.

#biochem potluck today. A lot of food and a lot of fun. #justdance

Fantastic day at Pen Hi - Toys for Tots to Teens was a huge success - thanks to our leadership students, student musicians, Chef Garvey and culinary arts students, PSS admin and staff for hosting - and our amazing community for being so generous!

@Ironman_JR Thanks JR but this was student led. I just provided the table 😀. They killed it. It was and incredible atmosphere in the school

#APBio students brought in toys for the #ToysForTotsToTeens today. Great group of students helping to make the holidays better!

@JenGrayScience Ya, I figured they have a short lifespan. I'll break them out for special occasions

Love the new liquid chalk markers! We have paper and we have white boards but students loved these. Great way to visualize learning #bio #science

We have a visitor for our #arthropoda lesson today 🕷️

Gotta love the creativity during the yeast ball enzyme lab 😀 #biology #HomeInTheRocket

Yeast ball and peroxide inquiry lab today. Practice today...variable manipulation tomorrow #bio

My little helper for collecting pill and sow bugs for the animal behaviour lab. Turns out we didn't need mine as the Ss all brought in their own. #biology

Ss had a great time creating their own animal behaviour lab this week. They created their own choice chambers. #biology