The Potato Story
Earlier this week I received and email from the makers of this website. It has been newly launched by McCain Foods and is in support of the ‘Year of Food and Farming’ (As a farmer’s daughter, I can sincerely say it’s content is very accurate). The website provides a fun and interactive learning [...]
Learning Outcome 3’s (LO3) are the practical aspects of a number of SQA courses. Pupils must pass at least one of these in order to be presented for the final examination. Pupils can only pass if their written report conforms to the SQA criteria. I am currently teaching my Higher Biology class the Chemistry of [...]
On Friday I attended our Biology Subject Support Group meeting at Preston Lodge High School, chaired by Fraser Kiernan. These meetings are always good for catching up with fellow East Lothian Biology Teachers and of course sharing our good practice. We covered many topics during Friday’s meeting including relevant resources, risk assessment and a proposal [...]
I have already posed this question to my pupils.
Biology is fascinating. Indeed, this is now my eighth year teaching the subject. The biological world around us never ceases to amaze me. I haven’t posted a factoid for a while, so here goes. Before you look at the image below, I will give you a little [...]
Unit 3 of the SQA Intermediate 1 Biology is all about ‘Growing Plants’ Last week my INT1 Biologists and I planted some (100) sunflower seeds (I was estimating a germination percentage of 50). Prior to planting the seeds, we had looked at seed structure and composition.
As an ongoing project, I have been uploading the [...]
This week has been as busy as always. Besides collating pupil folio material and Second Year report writing, I thought I would write a little post on the latest developments of Glow. As you may be aware, Knox Academy was chosen to pilot the Second Phase of Glow. This week, Dave and I have had [...]
We are now in our second week of an HMIe inspection at Knox Academy. This is our week of intensive observation.
Although my department was not chosen to be fully inspected, we were hoping that we would have the satisfaction of an HMIe visit.
Today was our/my lucky day! I was fortunate enough to have the [...]
The Biology Department at Knox Academy put on a fish dissection annually. We do this every February during a named lunchtime. We show the dissection under our video microscope on screen. It can sometimes be quite difficult to identify the various inner organs, so we have a prepared slide show on a second screen that [...]
This afternoon, five of my pupils, Dave Rawson and I had the great privilege of starring in a small training video clip. Glow is the new name for the Scottish Schools Digital Network. It is a national schools intranet, digitally linking Scotland’s 800,000 educators and pupils. This video clip will be used by RM [...]
My INT 1 Biology class and I are very excited. We have been asked by RM and LTS if we would like to take part in a small training video clip. This will take place at Knox Academy on Tuesday afternoon. The clip will illustrate our work and experiences of the Phase 1 2006 Glow [...]
