Dear Students... Whoever you are...

The Handy Dandy Guide to Modern Science:

If it blows up, its Chemistry

If it doesn't work, its Physics

If it is green, wiggles, and smells funny its Biology!

Welcome to Mrs. Tyler's Biology class. Now I know what you are thinking, "ANOTHER Biology class.... How can life get anymore boring??" Let me tell you that our class this year is not going to be another boring class. We are going to do experiments that both you and I create, we are going to take field trips, learn facts, discover truths, and even debate ideas. Science is useful in every day life as well. In our class we are going to try and focus on the outside world and learn from it rather than from a book. In fact, John Lubbock said, “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” (John Lubbock (Lord Avebury), The Use of Life (1895)). 

Don't worry, I will be a better teacher than this bug here! 

If ever you have a question and you have to figure out how to solve it you are DOING science. For example, have you ever tried to find out the best way to hang a heavy picture? Perhaps you were trying to figure out why your car was leaking oil? Or maybe your question was how to get in the best shape for your upcoming football, soccer, volleyball (or whatever sport you play) season. All of these questions require you to come up with some options of how it could be done and then try some of your ideas out to see if they work. That is what science is, testing your ideas to see how they work to answer a question. They might not seem like science to you because you are used to looking into a microscope or filling out a paper with a hypothesis and conclusion but trust me it is science just the same. 

Here is a fun site that has a bunch of games on it that teach you a little bit about Biology as you play each one!  http://biogames.info/

I am excited to start the year with this class. We are going to have fun and I hope you are getting as excited as I am. Let's get started on a great year!