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Biology Review Made Easy:

Engaging Lessons to Reinforce Learning

PD WEBINAR

 

Our mission at PocketLab is removing barriers to unlock the
potential for more engaged STEM classrooms.

 

 

 

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What You’ll Learn

Join us for an exciting 1-hour webinar featuring the Amoeba Sisters, in person, as they show you how to use their latest lesson content, specifically designed for high school students or anyone learning biology. Learn practical tools and creative ideas to make biology accessible and fun for your students. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with the Amoeba Sisters and revolutionize your teaching practice in this new school year.

In this webinar, The Amoeba Sisters will show their Amoeba Sisters Virtual Checks which are interactive activities that focus on their popular biology YouTube videos. They will cover best practices and strategies in using these virtual checks as end-of-the-semester review activities to reinforce your students learning, promote critical thinking and solidify a deeper understanding of concepts.

Plus we will hear from a biology teacher in Georgia having great success using these virtual checks with her students.

 

Here’s how PocketLab removes barriers to engaged STEM learning:

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Modern Probeware

Easy to use multi-function sensors for the STEM classroom. Spend less class time prepping and more time teaching, learning, collecting, and applying.

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NOTEBOOK

 

Curriculum and Lab Support

The Notebook web app offers more than intuitive sensor data collection. Here you’ll find thousands of interactive, free and premium standards-aligned lessons, labs, and knowledge-checks created in partnership with popular curriculum and content creators teachers trust.

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Community

PocketLab aims to inspire, educate and reinvigorate educator’s love of teaching STEM through their Science is Cool (ScIC) community: FREE PD events, virtual field trips, engaging podcasts and more.

Webinar Agenda

 
6:30 - 6:35 CT: Welcome & Introductions (Dave Bakker)

Dave Bakker welcomes attendees from around the world.

 
6:35 - 7:05 CT: Amoeba Sisters Biology Videos (Sarina and Brianna)
7:05 - 7:15 CT: Real World Classroom Implementation (Robin Gant)
  • A teacher's perspective
  • Adding your classes and students rosters
  • Automated progress review
  • Student's work demo
  • Customizing a lesson

7:15 CT: Q&A with Attendees (Dave, Sarina, Brianna, and Robin)

We are going to take all your questions from the chat and answer them LIVE!

 

* All LIVE attendees will receive a PD certificate via email after the event concludes

 

 

 

Featured Products in this Webinar

Amoeba Sisters Virtual Checks

Digital Lessons Annual Subscription:

• Collection of 45+ lessons thats still growing

• Customizable

• Perfect for end of semester topic review

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Notebook Platform

Free web app featuring:

• Seamless sensor pairing

• Hundreds of ready-to-use lessons

• Real-time data visualization

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Our PD Webinar Speakers

Sarina Peterson | Petunia

Petunia is the creator of the comics and GIFs.  She times the comics to Pinky's audio to create the videos. Petunia has no formal training in art, but she has practiced a lot. You can see the progression of her art on the milestone page. She (arguably) has a better sense of humor than her sister counterpart. 

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Brianna Rapini | Pinky

Pinky writes the scripts, records her voice, and designs resources to complement the videos. She has a master's in biological sciences and a public high school science teaching background. Petunia would like to add that Pinky's fun facts are, in fact, frequently not fun.

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Robin Gant | Teacher - Lyndon Academy

Robin Gant is an experienced teacher with 35 years of teaching experience. She has taught in various settings ranging from public school to private school to homeschool groups; in addition, she has taught many grade levels (3rd through 12th) in three different states. She has worked with approximately 6,000+ individual students during her career. Robin first earned her BS in Education at Kennesaw State University in 1987. She has added all core subjects to her teaching certificate: a one-at-a-time task in her home state of Georgia. Embracing Science as THE all-in-one subject area, Robin is currently teaching at Lyndon Academy in Holly Springs, GA. Her current students are about as star-struck as she is to be working with the Amoeba Sisters!

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