For most of my 42-year high school teaching career I taught courses in Biology, Human Genetics, and Science Research Projects. The Human Genetics course that I developed (thanks to mentors like Tom Mertens and Jon Hendrix of Ball State University, Sam Rhine, and Gordon Mendenhall) and taught for 35 years at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Indiana was an elective science course for juniors and seniors. It was pretty content heavy, so I gave more lectures in that course than I did in the 9th grade Biology classes. In recent years I had most of the lectures in the Human Genetics class video-recorded and posted on YouTube for any students who might have been absent on any given lecture day (I did not video-record the days when the students were doing labs, simulations, or working through self-paced computer tutorials.)
Now that I’m retired from the classroom, I’ve decided to share those video-recorded lectures with any high school biology teachers who might be teaching Biology, Advanced Biology, AP Biology, or Genetics courses.
If you’re a high school biology teacher teaching any of these upper-level biology electives, please feel free to use them for either your own personal professional development or directly with your students. I’m happy to share these resources with you and I hope you will find them to be helpful in your own teaching. If you’re a high school administrator, please share this information with your biology teachers!