Abstract Detail Conference Wide Shipman, J. S. [1]. Helping Students use a HOT Skills WheelTM to enhance Higher Order Thinking on Botany (and other science) Topics. Building higher order thinking skills is important to studies in botany. Participants in this symposium will make a H.O.T. Skills Wheel and use it in small groups to study some botany so they will have first hand experience to share with their own students. Participants should bring a journal article or portion of text, and may bring colored pencils, markers or crayons (6 light colors), other art or music supplies (guitar, if you'd like to use it, for example), and a folder. After trying the wheel for various botany topics, participants will share their experiences. After returning home, participants are encouraged to use the new H.O.T. skills wheels with their classes and submit their results for possible publication in text or on the web.

Improve Literacy for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, and, Finance.

Follow on TikTok Short bursts of Ideas to Draw People to Science.

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About 70 years ago, Marie Shipman said, "Looking at pictures is reading. It is where children start to read." I will say that those people that share picture books with their children soon have children that tell them the stories, start to recognize letters, and, the children start to realize the letters represent sounds.

Lots of people like sight-reading or L+1. These concepts about reading make it hard to develop scientists

Previous posts to check over from the Wayback Machine

 https://web.archive.org/web/20130415060510/http://read-about-it.blogspot.com/

Seeds are Everyone's Responsibility. Nobody owns Seeds (or Genes), Learn the Science of Seed-keeping and Ensure the Food Supply

Seeds are Everyone's Responsibility. Nobody owns Seeds (or Genes),  Learn the Science of Seed-keeping and Ensure the Food Supply

Here are some resources:

Viewpoint: Saving our Food Supply and Our Culture
https://nativefoodalliance.org/our-programs-2/indigenous-seedkeepers-network/

Viewpoint: Using Availability of Food to Control People
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/monsanto-and-gates-foundation-have-major-control-over-large-global-seed-bank-norway

Viewpoint: Fact or Fiction Regarding Gates Involvement in Seed Bank
https://blog.seedsavers.org/blog/svalbard-with-cary-fowler



I will post more,.This page is under development.

How Diet Is Driving COVID-19 Outcomes

Watch, Reflect, Write your Ideas.

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We are inside with food being rationed by the grocery stores. Still there are pluses*. Use YOUR science knowledge to make good decisions.

Wash your Hands, Aseptic Technique, 
Saving Lives
You know I often spoke and wrote about hand-washing. Hand-washing-to- prevent-disease is nothing new just because of the, "COVID-19," corona crisis. Hand-washing has been known to be critical in saving lives for years and years. It is so important to saving lives that I told my pre-medical and allied meical students, including nursing students, that ever if they even once forgot to use aseptic technique they would fail the course.

Complaining about Aseptic Technique?
Oh, how they complained! You can imagine. My response was that excellent aseptic technique was that important. They had to learn aseptic technique so they did it automatically or they could kill whole cities. You'll be glad to know, they all passed the course. You might even be alive because of their doing well in their studies. One of those students stopped an epidemic in Boston (and won an award for it), because she recognized a flaw in aseptic technique. She saved a city. More on that later. Let's look at aseptic technique first.

So what is aseptic technique? 
So what is aseptic technique? You haven't heard that on the news? Note that people often say, "sterile," when they mean, "aseptic." so, what isn the difference? Dictionary.com defines sterile this way: "Free from bacteria or other living microorganisms; totally clean," and aseptic this way, "Free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or putrefaction." They are close in meaning but not the same. We can sterilize surgical equipment but not our hands. for example.

Singing your way clean 
I sang happy birthday twice whilke washing my hands. Today, people are being creative and riting more songs/ Do you have one to help you time your wahimg" Some singing you might enjoy be some cretive people is found here: https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2012/06/update-from-personal-contact-wash-your.html.

Questions for Reflection
Reflect and put your thoughts down. Answer or take your best guesses at these questions: 

1. Why do you think we want our hands to be aseptic rather than sterile yet want surgical equipment to be sterile?
2. Is there a problem with over cleaning?
3. Do we need some germs? Why or why not?
4. How could aseptic technique save a city?
5. Do you want your hands to be sterile?
6. Why does a new field of architecture now study biology and asthma?
7. What are YOUR plusses to being quarantined?

I will give you some time to think about the questions and come back later with the story of the woman who got the award in Boston for stopping an epidemic a few years ago and some additional pointer.

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* From Dictionary.com, "noun, plural plus·es, plus·ses."

References

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK144018/ Accessed 4/22/2020.
2. Shipman, J S 2012, 2014 https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2012/06/update-from-personal-contact-wash-your.html
3. Shipman, J S 2014.Wednesday, March 5, 2014, C-diff epidemic in USA and Europe hits home. (Personal update) Your help is needed to battle super germs (Yes, You...Your help). https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2008/06/c-diff-epidemic-in-usa-and-europe-hits.html 
4. Shipman, J 2010 Thursday, February 25, 2010. Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAI) Carry Steep Price Tag... Doctors are not exempt from using old-fashioned soap and water to wash their hands.https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2010/02/hospital-acquired-infections-carry.html Thursday, May 13, 2010. Aseptique Technique: Preventing or Alleviating Problems. https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2010/05/aseptique-technique-preventing-or.html
5. Shipman, J S . 2010. Thursday, May 13, 2010, Aseptique Technique Preventing or Alleviating Problems.  https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2010/05/aseptique-technique-preventing-or.html.
6. Shipman, J S  2007 Thursday, December 20, 2007, Whttps://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2007/12/wash-your-hands.html/
7. Shipman. J S 2015   Marh 5. 2015. Update from a personal contact... Wash your hands! https://read-about-it.blogspot.com/2012/06/update-from-personal-contact-wash-your.html    
8. Shipman, J S  2017  Friday, September 17. 2010, Today's In the News is on Hand-Washing...                                  
9. Shipman, J S 2018. Surviving Old Age... No matter when you start, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43350445-surviving-old-age-no-matter-when-you-start  [I am updating and revising this book at present. The current contents are fine. I am just adding some newer research. I recommend the e-book if you just want to click links to sources. I personlly like holding the paperback but I prefer the e-book to typing in the address links. Yes, I did the painting on the cover. It is called, "Dutch-American Part of the Underground Railroad."]
10. Shaiman, Marc. 2020. March 20, 2020, We wrote You a Hand-washing Song: Listen up.  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/well/we-wrote-you-a-hand-washing-song-listen-up.html. Accessed 4/22/2020.

Need a change from the Corona virus? Here's an
Almanac author's Ideas on the Cold Myths

https://www.almanac.com/content/10-myths-about-cold