Tagged: scholarship biology

Featured image: Thoughts on a question about kākāpō

Thoughts on a question about kākāpō - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Mar 21, 2019 •

My interest in kākāpō began way back in my honours year at uni: a guest speaker told us that as far as anybody knew, the last remaining birds were a few males, somewhere in Fiordland. I remember feeling that that sounded really sad – those lonely males booming for females who never came. Shortly after that, a relatively healthy population … Read More

Featured image: A pivotal species? What’s that?

A pivotal species? What’s that? - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Nov 20, 2018 •

By the end of the school year, Year 13 students preparing for Schol Bio should have a pretty good grasp of the concepts and content they’ve encountered in their studies. What tends to throw some, though, is the fact that the context used for each question will almost certainly be something that they haven’t come across before. I experienced that “what the … Read More

Featured image: Wordle & Schol Bio

Wordle & Schol Bio - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Sep 16, 2018 •

One of the things I do at Schol Bio workshops is work with students to identify the key themes that run through the exam questions from year to year. On the macro scale, there are three: human evolution, genetics, and animal & plant behaviour/responses to the environment (with an occasional admixture of biotechnology). At yesterday’s workshop in Tauranga, my friend … Read More

Featured image: Preparing for scholarship: critical thinking

Preparing for scholarship: critical thinking - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Jun 27, 2018 •

I met with a local biology teacher today to talk about setting up a Schol Bio preparation day in the Waikato, and we also discussed things like the need for critical thinking skills (in addition to a solid base of knowledge from students’ year 12 & year 13 studies and time spent in reading more widely around the subject). So … Read More

Featured image: Could – & should – the moa be a goer again?

Could – & should – the moa be a goer again? - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Jun 03, 2018 •

I’m starting to gear up for some Schol Bio preparation days in the regions (hi, Hawkes Bay! See you in 4 weeks!) and realised that I haven’t written anything specifically focused on those exams for a while. So I thought that putting something together would be a good way to spend a rather wet Sunday. At these days we usually … Read More