Recently added articles from The American Biology Teacher:
ADDING BEHAVIOR TO THINKING ABOUT STRUCTURES & FUNCTIONS
Aug 01, 2008; Jordan, Rebecca; Gray, Steven; Demeter, Marylee; Liu, Lei; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy ... My students can understand multiple levels oj a system without understanding how these levels interact. Terranee Reagan, 11-12 Chemistry Teacher After hours of instruction, have you ever asked your students synthesis questions such as Wfry do animals need oxygen? or How do ...
Do Large-Scale Exams Adequately Assess Inquiry? An Evaluation of the Alignment of the Inquiry Behaviors in New York State's Living Environment Regents Examination to the NYS Inquiry Standard
Aug 01, 2008; Day, Heather L; Matthews, Dorothy M ... Contemporary education is the midst of a standards-based reform movement (Finn, Julian &r Petrilli, 2006). In science education, national reform documents (Rutherford & Ahlgren, 1989; American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS], 1993; National Research Council [NRC], 1996) ...
Teaching Mendelism
Aug 01, 2008; Stansfield, William D ... Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is rightly credited as being the "father of modern genetics." He presented the results of his pea experiments at a meeting of his local natural history society in two lectures during 1865. His paper was published in the proceedings of the society the next year. From his ...
How Plankton Swim: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Using Mathematics & Physics To Understand the Biology of the Natural World
Aug 01, 2008; Clay, Tansy W; Fox, Jennifer B; Gronbaum, Daniel; Jumars, Peter A ... Scientific researchers often use mathematics and physics to address biological questions. However, these disciplines are generally presented as separate and distinct at the high school level. Nearly every high school student in America takes biology, making the biology class the ideal ...
AN INQUIRY-BASED APPROACH TO TEACHING
Aug 01, 2008; O'Connell, Dan ... Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration Shortcomings of Commonly-Used Exercises on Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration Recent studies of American science education have highlighted the need for more inquiry-based lessons (Shields, 2006). For example, when the National ...
The Biology of HIV/AIDS: A Case Study in Community Engagement
Aug 01, 2008; Caccavo, Frank Jr ... The focus of most high school and collegiate science courses is typically the production of knowledge. Students are taught facts, figures, and techniques that provide a structural framework for scientific problem-solving. Science faculty often feel burdened under the sheer mass of information ...
Can GLOBAL WARMING Heat Up Environmental Education?
Aug 01, 2008; Mazzatenta, Claudio ... Bronx Community College (CUNY) launched "Global Warming Campus Awareness and Action Days" in celebration of Earth Day, 2007. The purpose of this program was to raise awareness of environmental issues in the college population, especially students. After the Salzburg Seminar of 2006, I decided to ...