You-tubes and Demos in Bio, Oh My!
NABT, Anaheim, 2011
ENGAGING AT-RISK STUDENTS IN
INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY CLASSES
INTRODUCTION
Mary Ann Ericksen
Marianne Gudmundsson
Glenbrook South High School
Glenview, IL
 Special Education students
 Students with 504 plans
 Guided Study students
 Students with lower reading and
poor study/organizational skills
 Diverse cultural backgrounds
CLIENTELE
CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
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Agenda/Homework
Birthday
Calendar/Announcements
Frequent
Assessment/Feedback
Greetings
Hall Passes
Turtle/Elephant/Crab…
Holidays/Season Clings
High Expectations
Birthday pencils/certificates
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Highlighters/Colored Pencils
Homework Passes/Cut-outs
Post Work/Projects (Bulletin
Boards/Ceilings)
School Announcements
Stickers/Stamps
Student Samples
Supplies/Lab Set-up
Frog: transitions/attentiongrabber
Music during labs
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Amber Jewelry/Fossils
Bacteria Plush
Blood Cells Plush
Bone Strength Shapes
Darwin Doll/Excerpt Origin of
Species/Darwin Awards
I Love Your DNA Tatoos
Whoopi Cushion
Diffusion Model
Glo Germs
“Fortune Fish”
Respiration Model/Bell Jar
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DEMOS
Galaxy Gold and pH
Oversized Coin-Probability
Opposable Thumbs/Masking
Tape
Primordial Soup
Prisms/Diffraction Glasses
Urine Collection Bottle
T-Shirt-Pink Floyd
“Get to Know You” ball
Black Box
Brain Teasers
Becoming Human: Don
Johansson
 Darwin Awards
 What’s My Pee Telling Me?
 Evolution Pop Up Book
 Health and Disease:
Medieval Times
 Napoleon’s Buttons
 On the Origin of Species
 Silent Spring
 The Dust Bowl
 The Hot Zone
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TEACHER READINGS-AS DEMOS
U-TUBES
Evolution Cartoon: Simpsons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faRlFsYmkeY
Twlight Mitosis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOM_u1PY0s0
Stand By Me Clip: Leeches: Diversity Unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Yv9TLkjl0
Olympic Champions Theme: Metric Olympics Lab
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4QpWaP2oQew
Bring Out Your Dead: Disease Unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds: Human Evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9IxEgZVFrQ
Motivational U-Tube: Brain Unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7azdDPdOQ
The Photosynthesis Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_uez5WX1o&feature=related
U-TUBES…CONTINUED
Mrs. Doubtfire/ Choking (Digestion/Heimlich)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFTp1Hi_6M
Urine AustinPowers (Excretion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXSCUjZDwk&feature=related
Newton’s Apple Hip Replacement (Skeletal System)
http://www.newtonsapple.tv/video.php?id=910
Happy Days Pumps Your Blood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upctPUa6RhA
Barber of York Scientific Method
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/theodoric-of-york/2888/
Rainbow Connection Kermit pH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCrMB8341rU
Indiana Jones Theme Song (Fossil/Evolution)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNNhBtBbOs
Hannah Montana Bone Dance (Skeletal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Waxf9KZWpM&feature=related
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
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Power point: Obj.#3 Acids,
Bases and pH
pH Demo Galaxy Gold
You tube: Rainbow
Connection
Lab: Determining the pH of
Common Substances
H.W. Reading in textbook on
pH using the reading strategy
Front Load the Words
ACIDS & BASES
A SAMPLE LESSON PLAN #1
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
A SAMPLE LESSON PLAN #2
•Hook: How many breaths do you take
in a minute? Hand out timers
(can also throw in a mini “contest”!)
•Power Point Lecture: Mechanics of
Respiration
•Demonstrate with a Bell Jar/Whoopi
Cushion
•Youtube Bill Nye-Respiration
•Lab: Breathing Rate Investigation
•H.W. Bring in Smoking Ads
Project: Students build their own respiration
model
A SAMPLE LESSON PLAN ON
RESPIRATION
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
SAMPLE UNIT ON EVOLUTION
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Day 1
Obj. #1 Evidence of Evolution (fossils, vestigial structures, biochemical, DNA, homologous structures)
Amber/Fossils/u-tube Jurassic Park amber
Reading: Evolution of the Horse
Video: Raising the Mammoth
H.W. Read pages 306-315 with reading strategy
Day 2
Collect H.W.
You Tube: Bill Nye “A Time Before Humans”
Lab: Evidence of Evolution (Homologous Structures)
colored pencils
H.W. Complete Lab
Day 3
Discuss the Geologic Time Scale/Reading Charts
Time line demo
Radioactivity Demo
Lab: M&M Radioactivity
Day 4
Obj. #3 Darwin, Lamarck, and Wallace
Darwin doll/Darwin Awards Reading
Statements D or L (Class discussion)
Video: Evolution cartoon
EVOLUTION UNIT CONTINUED. . .
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Day 5
Obj. #4 Origin of Life/Primordial Soup
Bill Nye Miller Urey Clip (4 minutes)
Lab: Xenosmilus Activity/Indiana Jones Theme
Song
H.W. Prepare for a Quiz Tomorrow
Day 6
Quiz Evolution
Obj #2 Natural Selection
Obj.#5 Adaptation and Variation
Video: Camouflage and Mimicry
Do Lab: Natural Selection
Day 7
Obj. #6 origin of new species and Obj. #7 human
evolution
Demo-skulls and tape
Hominid Sequencing Activity
Do Lab: Comparing Primate Skulls
Cartoon Homer Simpson’s Evolution
Day 8
Go over Reviewsheet
Go to Computer Labs: play Quia
Review Games
H.W. Unit Exam Tomorrow
Day 9
File Review Materials
Unit Exam Multiple Choice
Reading Portion
FINALLY…ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A TEACHER’S
ATTITUDE…
“I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the
decisive element in the classroom. It is my
personal approach that creates the climate. It is my
daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make
a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of
torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can
humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is MY response that decides
whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated
and a child humanized or de-humanized. ”
– Haim Ginott
YOUR TURN…
IDEA EXCHANGE…SHARE SESSION…
Where can I find all of this? Where can I add my
ideas/demos/you-tubes?
Please join our wiki at:
http://ibio2011nabt.wikispaces.com