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Biology Week 2024: Resources & Ideas!

All About STEM

The Royal Society of Biology has announced that Biology Week 2024 will take place from the 7th to the 11th of October! Planning for the new school year?

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Biology Week: National Spelling Bee

All About STEM

Your students can enter The Royal Society of Biology National Spelling Bee! “Literacy is a key factor in an individual’s success in Science exams and during a pupil’s journey with learning science they encounter a huge number and variety of new words.

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Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises

Stephen Wolfram

The last pattern is a bit of an exception; as can also happen in biology, this is a case where for once theres a mechanism in evidence that we can understand.) This is a follow-on to Why Does Biological Evolution Work? A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes [May 3, 2024]. So what in the end is going on?

Biology 107
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Boosting Biology Exam Scores with Spiral Reviews

The Trendy Science Teacher

In Biology , where concepts are interconnected and complex, finding effective review strategies is crucial. Enter the concept of spiral reviews – a method that has revolutionized my approach to teaching Biology and significantly boosted my students’ end-of-course assessment scores. What are Spiral Reviews?

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

ED Surge

The need for biology students to understand math concepts has become increasingly important, especially with the digital revolution sweeping across science. This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series).

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What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

ED Surge

It’s called “ ChatGPT and the Future of AI, ” and the author is Terrence Sejnowski, a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he co-directs the Institute for Neural Computation and the NSF Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center. He is also the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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A Minimal Model for Biological Evolution and Other Adaptive Processes

Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram explores simple models of biological organisms as computational systems. A study of progressive development, multiway graphs of all possible paths and the need for narrowing the framework space.

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