I’ve put together a selection of YouTube clips that illustrate how organisms sense changes and respond to them. Watch a couple, or three, or all… and have a think about the questions I have posed.
Videos – Sense and response
Mitosis
The phases of mitosis – where eurcaryote cells (that’s animals, plants, fungi… but not bacteria and the other prokaryotes) divide to create two identical copies of themselves can be tricky to remember. To make learning sequences easier – I like to write poems and songs of little artistic merit. Here is my haiku cycle ‘Mitosis.’ I hope you enjoy it.
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Games in science lessons
Games are a valuable tool the can help embed models, linking the domain of the observed/real to the domain of the unseen/theoretical. They break up a lesson, encourage participation and allow children to let off steam. Most of all, they are fun! But, which games work and which ones are best left in the box? Find out in my guest post in the Better Science blog.
Response cards
I’ve just designed some new response cards to use in my classroom, and I like them so much that I’m seriously thinking of printing up a few hundred and selling them at cost (or thereabouts.) What are feedback cards? Why do I need them – and why might you? Good questions.
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Penscynor guidebook (1995)
The 1995 Penscynor guidebook and map. View online and download.
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