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Book Chapter
Unifying Principles of Biology
This chapter outlines six unifying principles educators can use to organize biological concepts, thus helping to unify the otherwise disparate facts of biology. These unifying principles represent a comprehensive foundation for the biological science...
Book Chapter
Attending to Conceptual Challenges
This chapter examines some of the conceptual and reasoning difficulties commonly encountered within each unifying principle of biology, as well as those iinherent to understanding the nature of science. Suggestions are provided for teachers to uncove...
Book Chapter
Getting Started With Inquiry: Six Invitations
Student participation in inquiry serves two objectives—first, students discover that science is something more than merely learning what others already know—and second, students develop skills in interpreting data and in understanding scientific ...
Book Chapter
In the full inquiry experience in this chapter, students will put skills of inquiry together as they think like scientists and apply critical-thinking skills to evaluate new information that they collect themselves. In full inquiry, students assume m...
Book Chapter
Perspectives on Contemporary Controversial Topics in Biology Education
This chapter describes three different types of controversy and makes the case for including controversial topics in your course syllabus. It offers suggestions for handling these topics in a way that helps students apply their scientific understandi...
Book Chapter
How to Set Up and Manage Your Biology Classroom
There are a number of important practical aspects to setting up and managing a biology classroom. These include strategies for organizing students into groups, conducting laboratory work, maintaining live organisms in the classroom, leading field tri...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about infectious disease. The probe is designed to find out whether students use the germ theory to explain what causes an infectious disease like the common cold. This free selectio...
Journal Article
Career of the Month: An Interview With Science Institute Program Director Laura Heisler
Laura Heisler always wanted to apply her interest in science to help people and make a difference. As a science program director, she brings together scientists, members of the business community, and others for the benefit of both society and the sc...