'This outstanding book... deserves to be very widely read. I hope it makes a major contribution to how school biology is taught.'
—Dr Michael J. Reiss, Professor of Science Education, University of London
Introduction
This isn't a book of lesson activities to trial. Instead, it's a vision of what secondary biology education is about. It questions what it means to understand school biology and what makes it meaningful for students. Pulling from many scholarly sources—including the philosophy and history of biology—and my own classroom experience, I share my vision and how I've enacted it in the classroom.
What you'll find inside:
A vision for an integrated and meaningful biology education.
A framework for teaching for meaning-making.
Concepts that help create a unified narrative across different topics.
A taxonomy of understanding can be shared with students and used to assess work.
Chapter 1: This sets the scene for the whole book. It combines many threads to define what is meaningful to secondary biology students. Meaningful in the sense that biological concepts hold meaning to students.
Chapters 2 & 3: I introduce a pedagogical theory: variation theory. In these chapters, I set out to show how useful it is in the secondary biology classroom, with many examples.
Chapter 4: I present a new framework for planning lessons for meaning-making in biology lessons.
Chapter 5: Here I discuss two concepts that can unify all the topics on the curriculum.
1. Seeing biology through a thermodynamic systems lens and
2. Seeing biology through an ecological-evolutionary lens via the concept of life strategies. I explain why and discuss how I've introduced these ideas to students.
Chapter 6: I introduce a new taxonomy of understanding biological systems that can be shared with students and used to assess their answers.
Chapter 7: This chapter focuses on the how and why of embedding the taxonomy into biology curricula. I give examples of how I use it and examples of my students' answers.
Chapter 8: This chapter rounds up the book by considering the complexity of our subject and the classroom.
'This outstanding book... deserves to be very widely read. I hope it makes a major contribution to how school biology is taught.'
—Dr Michael J. Reiss, Professor of Science Education, University of London
Introduction
This isn't a book of lesson activities to trial. Instead, it's a vision of what secondary biology education is about. It questions what it means to understand school biology and what makes it meaningful for students. Pulling from many scholarly sources—including the philosophy and history of biology—and my own classroom experience, I share my vision and how I've enacted it in the classroom.
What you'll find inside:
A vision for an integrated and meaningful biology education.
A framework for teaching for meaning-making.
Concepts that help create a unified narrative across different topics.
A taxonomy of understanding can be shared with students and used to assess work.
Chapter 1: This sets the scene for the whole book. It combines many threads to define what is meaningful to secondary biology students. Meaningful in the sense that biological concepts hold meaning to students.
Chapters 2 & 3: I introduce a pedagogical theory: variation theory. In these chapters, I set out to show how useful it is in the secondary biology classroom, with many examples.
Chapter 4: I present a new framework for planning lessons for meaning-making in biology lessons.
Chapter 5: Here I discuss two concepts that can unify all the topics on the curriculum.
1. Seeing biology through a thermodynamic systems lens and
2. Seeing biology through an ecological-evolutionary lens via the concept of life strategies. I explain why and discuss how I've introduced these ideas to students.
Chapter 6: I introduce a new taxonomy of understanding biological systems that can be shared with students and used to assess their answers.
Chapter 7: This chapter focuses on the how and why of embedding the taxonomy into biology curricula. I give examples of how I use it and examples of my students' answers.
Chapter 8: This chapter rounds up the book by considering the complexity of our subject and the classroom.
Biology Made Real: Ways of Teaching That Inspire Meaning-Making
Biology Made Real: Ways of Teaching That Inspire Meaning-Making
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940166984432 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Christian Moore-Anderson |
| Publication date: | 04/05/2023 |
| Sold by: | Draft2Digital |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 3 MB |