About Biology
Biology is the study of life, the systems within living things, and the systems in which living things fend for survival.
About Mr. Harrison
Mr. Harrison is a 21-year veteran teacher in the Dearborn Schools. He is an Edsel Ford alumnus (Class of 1995). He has a bachelor's degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Michigan State University, and a Master of Science degree in Science Education from the University of Michigan - Dearborn. He lives in Dearborn with his wife and 4 kids.
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Lesson 10
Students will Use a computational model to figure out how a combination of limited resources (space), antibiotics, and reproduction affects the size of a population and the distribution of trait variations in a bacterial population in a simulated infection. Develop a...
Lesson 9
Students will Develop and use a model based on evidence to illustrate the relationships between components of a system and different scales (human body systems, population of bacteria, and individual bacteria) using scientific principles we have figured out so far to...
Lesson 8a
Students will... Plan and carry out investigations: collaboratively, in a safe and ethical manner including personal impacts such as health safety, to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence as part of building explanations for phenomena related to patterns we...
Lesson 7
Students will... Use mathematical thinking to develop mathematical representations (tables and graphs) of phenomena (changes in population size over time) to support claims of why it takes multiple doses of antibiotics to wipe out a large bacterial population....
Lesson 6
Students will...Use a computational model to figure out how space availability affects the size of a population and the distribution of types of bacteria in a simulated environment. WHAT WE FIGURE OUT - Bacteria grow well in the Petri dish because agar provides space...
Evidence for Evolution
This week, we'll be examining the evidence for evolution. This includes fossil evidence and the age of the earth, anatomical evidence, biochemical evidence, and embryological evidence.
SMART Goals and Analyzing Data
Today, we began by analyzing the goals we wrote for ourselves in our ePortfolios on Friday, converting them to SMART goals for a.) learning and b.) behavior in Biology. Students revised their goals after self-evaluating them. We then moved on to our main learning...
Two-Liter Flush!
Students have spent time designing a controlled experiment, which they carried out today. Behold: the 2 L flush!
Observations lead to hypotheses
Today, we continued our observations and began to formulate hypotheses from these observations. Hypotheses Lead is to make predictions which we can test with experimentation. We did the virtual lesson entitled "Observation and Inference" on iLearn.
Observation
Learning target: I can distinguish between an observation, value judgment, and inference. I can also make qualitative and quantitative observations.