We have some exciting news! We are hoping to take our awesome online community offline and in person! We all love our subject, and we’ve built this great group of supportive biology educators. However, we would like to meet up in person to chat all things biology through talks, discussion groups, or just to catchContinueContinue reading “Chat Biology Live Event 2025”
Yearly Archives: 2024
Teach the Rainbow: Using diverse examples to improve LGBTQIA+ inclusivity in biology lessons
Photo by Jeffry Surianto on Pexels.com Just as we are all teachers of literacy, as biologists, we clearly have a role to play in the integration of sex, sexual health, and gender identity teaching across the curriculum. This is often covered in KS3 as well as in KS4 where it is part of the majorityContinueContinue reading “Teach the Rainbow: Using diverse examples to improve LGBTQIA+ inclusivity in biology lessons”
Biology Teachers – Keeping Pacman Alive for the Next Generation
The structure-function relationship in biology is key regardless of the level of organisation you are dealing with. Think about the arrangement of branches on a classic fir tree at this time of year, how their collective shape helps shed snow, how the needles on each branch align to maximise the light that can be absorbed. ContinueContinue reading “Biology Teachers – Keeping Pacman Alive for the Next Generation”
Bored Gamers?!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! So, it is the first of January and we have just returned home from various festive family visits. I wonder how many of you, like us, at some stage heard the dreaded request to play Monopoly? This game has been in our family games cupboard for decades and it has rarely broughtContinueContinue reading “Bored Gamers?!”
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