Concepts in Biology - High School Biology Part 2

Lora Danley, M.S. - Chemistry, Physics, Science

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This course is a 16 week semester course for High School Biology and when taken with Part 2 constitutes a full year of topics covered in High School Biology.

Class Experience

This is a 16 week full-semester class that covers concepts in High School Biology.  Although technically Part 1 and Part 2 can be taken in any order, I will be integrating previous concepts into later classes, so that learners are able to see how concepts relate to each other and learn to solve problems by synthesizing together information from different concepts.  

Images, activities, and short experiments will help solidify the concepts in class.  During class I will teach by the Socratic...

Students will gain a solid understanding of the concepts in biology listed above and will learn to solve problems relating to those concepts.

I have a B.S. in Chemistry from MIT and a M.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.  At MIT I took a significant number of courses in the field of biology and I took courses in biology at the graduate level at UC Berkeley.  At both MIT and UC Berkeley, my research centered on biology.  I have taught biology at the college level, and I have tutored students in biology at both the college level and the high school level.

Homework Offered
Students will be provided with an e-book after the first class as well as optional homework problems and answers and optional at-home projects.  Should students choose to do the reading, it will be approximately 10 pages for each class.  Each homework assignment should take the students 1-3 hours.  
Assessments Offered
Students have the option of taking the class for a grade.  In this case the student will be required to complete 6 of the at-home projects of their choosing and to take all three tests.  
Grades Offered

Learners will be provided with an e-book after the first class as well as a packet that contains worksheets for each class along with optional homework assignments with answers and optional at-home projects.

The class will discuss sexual reproduction during the anatomy portion of the class.

Learners will be provided with an e-book after the first class as well as a packet that contains worksheets for each class and optional homework assignments with answers as well as optional at-home projects.

Available times

Pacific

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Meet the teacher

Lora Danley, M.S. - Chemistry, Physics, Science

Rising Star

Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(34)

Hello!  I have always loved learning, and when I was small I would often request that my mother play school with me.  From there I graduated to playing teacher; I would invent imaginary students and assignments for them which I then graded with...