free online life sciences education resource update 06/25/15
Mark Lasbury
Good morning,
Did you know that one
of the most important parts of your brain is actually a part of your mouth? Or
that everyone’s brain is just a bit twisted, but Einstein was more twisted that
most? Do you know how the Fibonnacci sequence controls the structure of your
lungs or why left handed people have more symmetric brains?
These are some of the recent stories we have addressed on a
free online resource developed to increase learner engagement and educator
content knowledge. As Many Exceptions As Rules tells the stories of organisms that
break biological rules or norms in order to survive and thrive. Through these
stories, the core concepts of the science are reinforced.
The resource can be accessed at: http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.com
Posted weekly, each story includes pertinent vocabulary with
etymology, interesting questions to spark discussion, links to the reports from
the latest research on the subject being discussed, and a list of online
resources for more information and classroom activities.
Upcoming topics will
include the story of how the hand you write with can affect the size of the
right side of your thyroid gland, why it is most likely that you came from your
mother’s right ovary, and why, if you’re a guy, parts of your body are always
circling in order to stay cool.
If you wish to receive weekly e-mail notifications of new
posts, reply to the sender individually.
Mark E. Lasbury, MS, MSEd, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine
IUPUI School of Education
As Many Exceptions As Rules