Sunday, September 13, 2009 7:52 PM
"Brother Bones" is now here? Are you ready? --September 14, 2008
I got so used to having "Brother Bones" as my helper on my shows. He was always helping out on my songs, especially "Tough It"and in his own song , "Brother Bones". The other day I was singing "Tough It" in class and a students goes "Where Is Brother Bones?" I responded he must be in "Brownsville, Houston, or San Antonio". He will eventually make his way to West Texas. Guess what? He arrived today.
He is now asking about Cell structure and specificity? So today, "Brother Bones " is asking, "What are the organelles of an animal cell? What are Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts? The First Student that can correctly send me the correct answer via e-mail will be the one who will get a Virtual Science University T-Shirt with my autograph. You have to give "Brother Bones" at least ten organelles found in animal cells defined and answer what are Osteoblasts and Osteoclasts. Be the first today, to get this award. "Brother Bones" will have a question like this at the beginning of every week. Have a Great Week!
Monday, May 18, 2009 8:50 AM
The pH Scale --September 9, 2009
TEK 3(F) The student will collect data individually or collaboratively, make measurements with precision and accuracy, record values using appropriate units, and calculate statistically relevant quantities to describe data, including mean, median, and range.
TEK 3(G) The student will demonstrate the use of course apparatuses, equipment, techniques, and procedures.
Time Span: Three 45 Minute Periods to complete this assignment
Introduction: In this lab, students will be given an opportunity to use a Digital pH Meter and Hydronium pH paper to collect pH readings on the substances listed below. They will record the values with precision and accuracy using the appropriate unit of pH. Once the student records the pH on a table and the pH Scale, then the student will describe what each value means in terms of Hydrogen Plus One Ions, Hydronium Plus One Ions, and Hydroxide Negative One Ions.
Materials Needed: The materials listed here are for a class lab group of 24 students.
(6) pH Digital Meters, (6) Rolls of Hydronium Paper, (6) 25 mililiters of Tide or Gain, (6) 25 mililiters of Black Coffee, (6) 25 mililiters of distilled water, (6) 25 mililiters of Lemon Juice, (6) 25 mililiters of Ammonia, (6) 25 mililiters of Vinegar, (6) 25 mililiters of Coca Cola, (6) 25 mililiters of Dr. Pepper, (6) 25 mililiters of Pepsi, and (6) 25 mililiters of Drano.
Assignment: Using a Digital pH Meter and Hydronium Paper, take pH readings of the following substances:
A. Detergent
B. Black Coffee
C. Pure Water
D. Lemon Juice
E. Ammonia
F. Vinegar
G. Coca Cola
H. Dr. Pepper
I. Pepsi
J. Drano
The following substances and their pH readings are on the pH Scale that is listed underneath.
Define the following terms:
1. pH Scale
2. Acid
3. Base
4. Anion
5. Cation
6. Ion
7. Hydrogen Ion
8. Hydronium Ion
9. Hydroxide Ion
10. Neutral
Using the above terms have students take pH readings and use the above vocabulary to engage them in analytical reasoning.
Record all pH and Hydronium readings on a Table and on a pH Scale like the one listed below.
Describe how there are differences in precision and accuracy between the Digital Readings and the Hydronium Paper Readings.
Students should complete the following essay question:
Describe how the following substances that have been tested impact the environment and especially the health of an individual over a long period of time. The time span is 10 years or longer.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:52 AM
Feliz Cinco De Mayo--May 5, 2009
We are at the end of the Academic Year. TAKS is behind us but the Field Test End of Course Exam in Biology is in front of us. Continue to use the lectures. They will help even more on the End of Course Exam in Biology. I look forward to a Great End of Course Exam in Biology and the End of the Academic Year. Have a Great Cinco de Mayo. We sure are getting ready here at our school to have a Great Fiesta all day long. It is a good way to Praise Students for their efforts during the Academic Year.FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO!
Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:55 PM
Help Is On The Way--March 12, 2009
Those of you who are struggling with trying to get the right touch on the TAKS Review, help is on the way. Here at the Professor Paul 24-7 we've got the TEKS in a format that reinforces student learning and success. All of my lectures cover the Biology TEKS using strategies that involve the Visual and Auditory Inputs. I will be starting on March 16th at Kermit High School, my High School Alma Mateur. I will try to have a Web Cam installed in my classroom with district permission. This way those of you who are having trouble engaging students on the visual, auditory, and kinesthic inputs can follow me along as I teach a REAL Classroom. I will going over all 24 of my Biology Lectures on the Professor Paul Show. I will also do a TAKS Review. For those of you who want to see a TAKS Review, e-mail our website and ask Laurie for it. She will provide a download mechanism for it. I hope all of you have a Great Spring Break and let me know how you are doing.
TAKE CARE! Professor Paul O. Briones
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:46 PM
TAKS Time Is Here! Here is a Strategy for Review-March 4, 2009
It is time for TAKS Review. For TAKS Objectives 1, 2, and 3, you are covered with the Professor Paul Show. Here is one way, you can review.
1.) Have all your students take the Pre-Tests for Lectures 1-24.
2.) If a score of 85 is obtained, go to the next Lecture, otherwise, have your students listen to the entire lecture and take it very slow. Have them Print out their lecture slides and notes and highlight everything that Professor Paul emphasizes.
3.) Have your students take the Post Test. Now, with the songs and the lecture notes fresh on your student's minds, they should be able to take the Post Test and do well on it.
4.) Between now and April 1, have your students review one lecture at a time daily until all 25 lectures are covered.
5.) It would be wise to have your students take the Post Tests again between April 1 and April 20th. By having your students review the lectures twice, they should be okay with the content that is required.
6.) Play special emphasis on the lectures on Cell Structure, Osmosis and Cell Permiablility, Animal and Plant Cells, Mitosis, Meiosis, DNA and RNA, Protein Synthesis, and Mendelian Genetics.
7.) Have them take a Released TAKS Test from the previous year. That practice test will bring to light what objectives each individual student needs to review.
Good Luck and Jam Out the TAKS Test! The songs attached to the lectures will help every student master the objective. Stick to this format, and you will have success with your students.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:46 PM
TAKS Time Is Here! Here is a Strategy for Review
It is time for TAKS Review. For TAKS Objectives 1, 2, and 3, you are covered with the Professor Paul Show. Here is one way, you can review.
1.) Have all your students take the Pre-Tests for Lectures 1-24.
2.) If a score of 85 is obtained, go to the next Lecture, otherwise, have your students listen to the entire lecture and take it very slow. Have them Print out their lecture slides and notes and highlight everything that Professor Paul emphasizes.
3.) Have your students take the Post Test. Now, with the songs and the lecture notes fresh on your student's minds, they should be able to take the Post Test and do well on it.
4.) Between now and April 1, have your students review one lecture at a time daily until all 25 lectures are covered.
5.) It would be wise to have your students take the Post Tests again between April 1 and April 20th. By having your students review the lectures twice, they should be okay with the content that is required.
6.) Play special emphasis on the lectures on Cell Structure, Osmosis and Cell Permiablility, Animal and Plant Cells, Mitosis, Meiosis, DNA and RNA, Protein Synthesis, and Mendelian Genetics.
7.) Have them take a Released TAKS Test from the previous year. That practice test will bring to light what objectives each individual student needs to review.
Good Luck and Jam Out the TAKS Test! The songs attached to the lectures will help every student master the objective.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:27 PM
Beyond TAKS and Into Medical or Allied Health Careers-August 25, 2009
Back in February , I received a complement from a student taking Anatomy & Physiology on the college level. She said that My Brother Bones Song was so good that it helped her learn the bones better than the way she had in her lecture class. She commented, "Instructors don't take the time to point to the bones and name them the way you do...it is so much fun to listen and sing the "Brother Bones" Song with you. My friend went out of my house singing "Who Is Brother Bones" and the neighbors shouted "Who taught you that song?" I thought, "That is so cool! Mr. B is a Songwriter-Entertainer and not just a Science Teacher!" Today, another ex-student of mine in North Texas uttered the same commment. He is studying Radiology and of course went to my lecture on the Skeletal System dealing with Brother Bones. This is where we need to keep the instruction and not get so hi-strung with TAKS. If you are teaching the TEKS, you will cover TAKS and go beyond and get your kids excited about joining the medical field and other Allied Health Fields. Play my song "Tough It" over and over and get them to sing it so that will stay with them and sooner or later they will start thinking and believing that they can become Doctors or join the Medical Health Field.
To keep them excited and organized make them keep a journal and make them put all of their notes and assignments in their journals. You keep the journals other than when Major Tests come around. This way you force them to stay organized. More to come and have a Great Day!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:35 PM
Are You Ready for the Pump It Up Heart Video? February 18, 2009
Hi To All of You,
Are you all ready for my Pump It Up Heart Video? I am telling you...Doctor Carrasco and myself and all of the Production Staff have been busy getting everything ready to record the Pump It Up Heart Video. The song should be complete by Friday, February 20th and the video by March 1st. Whoa...We are excited here in the studio. Those of you that like to do Aerobic Exercise and also want to teach how the HEART works at the same time...this Video is for you...I mean it is FUNKY! The music has some Grooves to it...I brought the skills that I learned from my past Professional Recording Gigs and have put them to good Use. I hope you all like it! I know I have...I've had alot of FUN doing this!
Blessings to all of You!
Sincerely,
Professor Paul O. Briones
Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:14 PM
Science Has Not Changed, The Way You Learn It Has!..February 14, 2009
Science has not changed, the way you learn it has. In today's world, young people are constantly on their ipods, lab tops, and black berrys constantly communicating on the Inter-Net. For this reason, I've taken the medium of the Inter-Net, and have presented my Biology Lectures covering Teks for Biology I here in the state of Texas. My background as a Science Teacher for 28 years and my experience in the Music Industry for the last 42 years have allowed me to come out of the woodwork and write new Science Music that will make students dance, learn, and sing my Science Songs, the way people did with the Motown Sound back in the 60's and 70's...for more listen to my songs "Pump It Up" on the Heart, Lecture 22 and "Top To Bottom" on the Digestive System Lecture 23 and you will know what I mean! I am ready to deliver them live and in Concert soon!
Friday, December 26, 2008 9:26 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year -December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope you are enjoying your families and this Blessed Season. I look forward to the New Year. Soon we will be finished taping lectures and then we will hit the road and share this exciting Science Education Program with Texas School Districts and other states.
Blessings to all of you during this Blessed Season!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:07 PM
Who Is Doing End of Course Exam?--December 17, 2008
We finished our 20th Lecture Show on Flowering Plants. It was so amazing...so much fun and so full of Creative Energy. Okay, now I want to throw a Serious Question on you kind of the way they do on the News Channels. "Who is doing End of Course Exam in Biology for this year?" I understand from some friends that I have in Austin, that this year is optional. I guess in 2011, we are heading towards End of Course Exam. For us here at the Professor Paul Show, this is Critical and Important, because we want to be in a position to help as many Virtual Students as possible, help Parents, help Administrators...We want to "TAKE THE STRESS OUT OF TAKS!"....the way my pencils say...those of you who got a Pencil from our booth at CAST know what I am talking about. By the way, I am also doing a lot of new Music. Soon, our Staff will be working on producing a high quality Audio CD of all the Science Songs I've written and their tracks...It will also include some of the Instrumental Music I do at the beginning of the shows....I am Excited...Talk to You Later!
Keep the Conversation Going...GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU, AMERICA, PARENTS, TEACHERS, VIRTUAL Students, and ADMINISTRATORS.
Very Gratefully Yours,
Professor Paul O. Briones
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:46 AM
August 24, 2009--Welcome New Biology and Anatomy and Physiology Teachers
Hi,
You have come to the right website. Welcome Beginning Biology I and Anatomy and Physiology Teachers. For many of you, today is day one. I just want to encourage you to have a Great Day and to breathe, walk, and talk enthusiasm. When you do this, you generate Positive Energy and it becomes contagious. After a while, students are going to be want to be in your class. For those of you who are wondering about Lesson Plans head to my website www.virtualscienceuniversity.com and look up Lecture One on Safety and Volume Measurement. This is usually Lesson One along with Expectations for everyone. For those of you who will be taking the ExCet Exam, I have the dates for you taking the test. I pulled them off from the SBOE website. Here is the link: www.texes.ets.org The dates are October 31, 2009, February 6, 2010, April 17, 2010, and June 26, 2010. We will be offering Test Preparation Workshops in the Content Area of Biology one week before the exam. We will conduct it in the Region where we get the most registrants. So contact my website office and start registering. At the Workshop, I will teach you all of my Biology Songs and give you tips about taking the Exam. I will be giving you tips often, so make sure you come see me weekly, to see what I have for you. Again Keep Up the Positive Energy and have a Great 2009-2010 School Year! Best Wishes, Professor Paul O. Briones
Monday, December 08, 2008 2:20 PM
Viruses & Bacteria--December 8, 2008
This is Professor Paul. Today, we finished our 19th Lecture on the Relationship of Viruses and Bacteria to Disease Mechanisms. We had a dynamic show with actual Surgery Footage in the background during my interview with Doctor Carrasco. I am also doing alot of new original Music Jams with every new show. Every Lecture now has some new music with it. I remember when I was actually teaching in the classroom, I would redirect every 10 minutes. Sometimes singing a Science Song or just actually jamming for a couple of minutes just to break the ice and to re-direct. I know many of you are still finishing up the first Semester of Biology. This is like the twitter where you can come and post your thoughts about Biology. You all take care and have a great week. Let me know how all of you are doing. I even welcome conversion with Virtual Students. Let me know your concerns and thoughts.
Best Wishes and continue the conversation!
Professor Paul O. Briones