High
school biology texts tend to gloss over parthenogenesis, typically mentioning the process as rare and restricted to mostly small invertebrates.
Not exact matches
Now, imagine if some Welshmen went before their local
school board and demanded that
biology text books include the Fairy Design Theory.
Archaeopteryx was a fossil hoax which was at one time believed to support evolutionary theory and is still in current published
biology texts for high
school students.
During the
school year 1963 — 1964 some 250,000 copies of the three
texts were sold, a number sufficient to reach 12 percent of the high
school biology students in the U.S.. All three have been offered to and accepted by state adoption boards in Georgia and Florida.
Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time
biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the
school board members.
They have been affixed to
texts for middle and high
school biology classes.
Exploring high
school biology students» engagement with more and less epistemologically considerate
texts.
FWIW, I also lucked out with three high
school level general chemistry
texts, and one
biology and human physiology
text.
The publisher of an upcoming creationist
biology text hurriedly replaced all occurrences of «creator» with «intelligent designer», etc in hopes of being able to get it used in public
school biology classes.
I have seen some brief mention in
biology texts to climate change, including the role of greenhouse gases, but I don't know whether there are more extensive descriptions in
texts relevant to middle
school and even more particularly, high
school.