How to Study for Biology Spring 2009 Study Skill Seminars - If you identify students in your SI sessions who need to shore up their study skills.  Invite them to attend one of Lindy's study skill seminars.  THe link provides date/time/place and topic of the seminars!

Bloom's Taxonomy for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings.

Revised Bloom's Taxonomy - an updated version of the original version above.  Mary Forehand of the University of Georgia provides a nice summary of the two taxonomies and the differences between them.

Team-Based Learning - The Power of Teams for Powerful Learning

Critically reviewing exams in an SI session - Here is an effective way to review exams in SI.  Tell your SI prof that you are going to do this in SI, and ask them to encourage students to come and critically review their exams in SI!

How to do a Concept Map - Instruction and facilitator notes (word file);and Powerpoint slides for introducing concept maps

Round Robin Worksheets - This is great activity to do right before an exam!

Blank SI Session Sign-in Sheet - in case you run out and need one at the last minute. There are also extras in the bottom drawer of the file cabinet outside my office (Rm. 207 SCIC).

SI Evaluation Form - This form will be used by the SI Peer Mentor or SI Supervisor when they come to observe an SI session.

Condensation Rummy - a great activity that helps students learn organic monomers and polymers! Latin Roots of Words - These may be help students figure out the meaning of biological terms! Plant Reproduction - This is an incomplete table of aspects of reproduction among the major plant phyla.  Students can work in teams to complete the table and organize their knowledge of the evolution of plant life cycles.  Email Dr. Peters for the key to this table if you want to use it! Making the rate:  Enzyme dynamics using pop-it beads - This activity helps students see chemical reactions at the molecular level.  The class works in groups.  One person is the designated enzyme.  Using pop-it beads, the students will see how changes in substrate concentration will influence enzyme reaction rates.  The activity is timed.  Different manipulations of the beads address enzyme structure and function.  Email Dr. Peters if you are interested in trying this activity. Cellular Respiration or Photosynthesis PowerPoint Tutorials - This interactive tutorial allows students to work in groups (at computers) to review cellular respiration or photosynthesis backwards, which I've found to make more sense to students, conceptually.  Students can work in groups to answer the thought questions and share/justify their responses with the rest of the SI group.  Email Dr. Peters if you are interested in trying this activity.