Hello there all!! 
The purpose of this blog is to show how simply COOL biology (and science in general) is and how it affects EVERYONE (and to pass my class hehe).  As a teacher-in-training, I have definitely learned the importance of trying to get our kids motivated, but how with the smartphones, tablets, Facebook, and Twitter constantly feeding them with updates about where their friends are every second of the day and pictures of food, cats, babies, and what not?!  

Well, I believe that every single person is a scientist.  For some people it may be deep down inside them, but YES, you are a scientist. You just need some reminding.  If you've ever asked "why?" or "how?", you're a scientist.  Ever wondered about life on Mars or better yet, wondered about anything at all?  You're a scientist.  The need to know and to find out is in all of us ever since we were born!

One of my professors had told our class about how his 3 year old twin boys were using the scientific method! At the age of 3!  Basically, the boys wanted to test out whose hot wheels cars were faster.  So they had first tried to push them at the same time, but realized they needed to make sure that the cars needed to be released at the exact same time and place.  They went through many trials tweaking their method here and there and tried to create a fair test with accurate measurements of their results. They were totally being scientists!

Anyways, I feel like I've written enough! But I still want to reiterate (again) that we are all scientists whether you like it or not!  We need and want research and evidence so that we can confidently and satisfyingly say, "My hot wheels is better than yours."