eInstruction® is a leading education technology company dedicated to providing interactive teaching, learning, and assessment technology and services that help educators drive academic progress every day, and give administrators the ability to aggregate and analyze student performance data. The company offers educators and administrators a family of software, student response systems, interactive whiteboards, wireless interactive tablets, and powerful enterprise-based administrator tools.
eInstruction provides the clicker response pads endorsed by Biology Rocks! and the classroom performance software used to operate the equipment and analyze the data.
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Wiimote Whiteboard
Multi-touch interactive whiteboards are a valuable asset to any classroom. However, their prohibitive cost puts them out of reach to far too many teachers. With just a little know-how and the right equipment, you can now use Nintendo's Wii remote to create an interactive whiteboard in almost any environment with a projector!
Software and Instructions - There can never be too much said about Johnny Chung Lee, the developer of the software for the Wiimote Whiteboard. His website, with videos and downloads, is here. The software is FREE.
Equipment - The interactive whiteboard still requires some new equipment. Penteractive.us provides excellent equipment specially fabricated to work for a Wiimote Whiteboard in an education setting.
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Carolina is the vendor of choice for Biology Rocks!. They offer several of the lab kits that are recommended by our curriculum, as well as the miscellaneous supply items and live specimens used in the program.
POGIL is a classroom and laboratory technique that seeks to simultaneously teach content and key process skills such as the ability to think analytically and work effectively as part of a collaborative team.
Biology Rocks! uses several POGIL lessons to teach difficult and abstract concepts. These custom-made materials use the powerful POGIL style to deliver the content, and you can learn more about POGIL at the POGIL.org website.
Other Valuable Sites
Below are some other sites that we think offer valuable resources to biology teachers.
4Teachers - RubiStar, TrackStar, etc
edu2.0 - free web-hosted classroom websites
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This Stanford protein modeling project is a great way to show students how protein modeling and research is happening in the "real world". The PS3 software is an amazing visualization platform, while the simpler clients allow students to contribute to the distributed computing network. PC and Mac computers can also run visualization clients with the right (and high end) hardware.
Endorsed Digital Content
These content developers have produced media and materials that are extremely valuable in the classroom. They have done some great work, and we encourage you to consider using their videos and programs and to support their future work.
Cells Alive - Mitosis and meiosis cell models
AlleleA1 - Microevolution graphing model
PBS - Computer animations of the processes in the Central Dogma
