{"id":1670,"date":"2018-02-02T18:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?page_id=1670"},"modified":"2020-11-19T22:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T03:09:42","slug":"biology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/?page_id=1670","title":{"rendered":"Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nNow that we&#8217;re in the high school phase of home school, I&#8217;m having to revisit various topics with which I only have a nodding acquaintance.&nbsp;<span>I suspect many home school parents are like me: left behind most of the biology we learned upon exiting the classroom for the last time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>So of course I rashly offered a high school biology course at our home school co-op.&nbsp;<div><br><\/div><div>Fortunately for me, a pair of <em>actual<\/em> biologists showed up. In a moment of hilarious irony, the co-op scheduled assigned them to me. <i>As teaching assistants.<\/i>&nbsp;<br><br><\/div><div>Now they deliver all the lectures while I do what I&#8217;m good at, namely, organizing stuff.\nIn the meantime, the experience has given me time to spot a gap in high school biology curricula for the home school crowd. One of our lecturers has a doctorate in cell bio. He could teach this class with half his brain tied behind his back and no coffee.&nbsp;<br><br>The curriculum we bought to use with the class is okay, but it&#8217;s more of a middle school level. I&#8217;ve been adding materials on my own to round it out, so here goes:\nMajor materials needed:\nMicroscope (we&#8217;ll discuss this later)\nThe Way We Work, by David MacCaulay\nYouTube: Between Crash Course Biology and the Amoeba Sisters, a lot of the first half of the year is available online.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1670\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/practicalbits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}