Th-th-th-that's All Folks!

A good article to use for biodiversity: Tasmanian Devils disappearing! It could also tie in to several other topics, such as evolution & cancer.

Sushi Anyone?

MSNBC just reported on a Sustainable Fishing guide to Sushi eating. This guide is set to be released next Wednesday, October 22nd. Until then you can read the article on about the guide, and why it is necessary on msnbc.

Chemistry of Sleeplessness

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36392/title/FOR_KIDS_The_chemistry_of_sleeplessness

This is an interesting article which may be tied into the scientific method. It's got motivation - how many of our students are suffering from lack of sleep - and you can make up regents-style questions to use as a Do Now or during the lesson.

Welcome

Welcome to my very first blog! I am a 9th grade Living Environment (the subject formerly known as biology) teacher in Queens, NY. I came into teaching through the NYC Teaching Fellows, and am still trying to figure out if I enjoy it.

Why am I blogging, you may ask. Besides the fact that it's a requirement for my last Master's Degree class, I am interested in keeping up with the multitude of advances and discoveries in life sciences, and sharing them with others. When applicable, I would like to include ways to include these discoveries in teaching the Living Environment. There's a big push to include "motivation" in our lessons, and what could be more motivating than including real-life science? Well, besides paying the students to learn. ;-)

If you come across any interesting science articles that I may have overlooked, please feel free to contact me or to add them to my blog as comments.

Thank you for visiting my humble little blog.