Is Bloom's Taxonomy responsible for the severe decline in UK students' knowledge of field biology skills?
Tag - education
Nigel Chaffey
Mnemonics are an Effective Tool for Adult Beginners Learning Plant Identification
Mnemonics produce the highest retention rates of species identification.
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Some good stuff in the recent edition of CBE Life Sciences Education
Some good stuff in the recent edition of CBE Life Sciences Education.
AJ Cann
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Research on Plant Science Teaching and Learning
The September issue of CBE—Life Sciences Education is a Special Focus edition on plant science education: Plant Behavior. CBE Life Sci Educ September 2, 2014 13:363-368; doi:10.1187/cbe.14-06-0100 Plants are a huge and...
A new website introducing genetic engineering
The Journey of a Gene is a new website at UNL-Nebraska that teaches the basics of genetic engineering. There’s a combination of videos, some from YouTube and some specifically made as well as some interactive...
Alun Salt
What a Plant Knows – MOOC Report
The What a Plant Knows MOOC comes as a refreshing change.
Science and Plants for Schools – Biology practical demo – How do nettles sting?
This demo from Science and Plants for Schools demonstrates a quick and easy plant practical for biology labs.
I feckin love the Dead Zoo
The public perception of plants as second rate science is not a new phenomenon.
Focus on transfer cells
A study finds that manipulation of transfer cells may provide new opportunities for improving crop yield.
Algae found under teenager’s bed…
17 year old Sara Volz wins $100 000 scholarship from Intel Science Talent Search for her experiment on algae that she kept under her bed.
Alice in the Wonderland of plants…
Military campaigns are sometimes intended to display ‘shock’ and ‘awe’ to overcome the adversary. Well – and rather less militaristically – Yiannis Manetas’ book, Alice in the Land of...
