Having a heart for medicine
One of my groups of students were engaged this week in the common laboratory of dissecting a sheeps’ heart in class. One is never sure as a biology professor how students will feel about these sorts of labs, I can…
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Kenny
Biology educator, son of a biology educator. Born in Kenya, worked in great schools in Malawi, England, Portugal, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Brazil. I am British, American (USA), and Kenyan. Ex-employee of the Lousiana Department of Environmental Quality. Interested in environmental problems and empowering young people to creatively solve them.
Mesocosm smashes school record
Every year I challenge my class to research, design and build a self-sustaining mesocosm. A mesocosm is an ecosystem in micro, the abiotic and biotic elements sealed together behind glass. This is the kind of research needed to facilitate a…
Climbing to the top
ROCK CLIMBING TO THE TOP For the last seven years I have been responsible for the maintanence and instruction for rock climbing at an international school somewhere. It has been my pleasure to work with a fabulous team of professionals…
White water rafting takes teamwork!
I was lucky enough to end 2022 taking a rollercoaster ride down the Rio Paraiba de Sur, along with six rafts of young people and fellow educators. There is nothing quite like white water rafting for stimulating teamwork, effective communication…
IB Biology Y1 students model climate change
From November 8th to 20th, over 100 heads of state met to hold urgent talks on how atmospheric global warming may be limited to a 1.5 degree rise. In IB Biology, students modeled the effect of carbon dioxide on the…
LET´S GO CLASS OF 2024
Welcome to the New IBDP Biology Class!
Juniors engage with the concepts of Classification
2022 Seniors RAFTING TRIP Success!
A dream came true as 23 Gavea Seniors and 3 Barra seniors spent the school last day of 2021 December paddling down the Rio Paraiba de Sur, what an achievement!
