Looking more closely at the passage above and comparing it to the content of the National Science Education Standards (NSES)(National Research Council, 1996) shows that a single paragraph from the most commonly used high
school biology textbook in the United States includes at least six scientific terms (eukaryotic, chromosome, prokaryote, chromatin, histone, and nucleosome) that are, unlike DNA and protein, not included in the NSES.
With such rapid progress, the field has likely raced well beyond the high
school biology textbook your class used to study alleles, fruit flies and eye color inheritance.
Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her high -
school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.
A method for analyzing the coherence of high
school biology textbooks.
Not exact matches
Even though I attended a public high
school, where I took two
biology courses, my teachers essentially skipped the first few chapters of our science
textbook and declared them «too controversial» to teach.
A Georgia
school board drops its effort to attach disclaimers to evolution content in
biology textbooks
When I first started working, I had no training in
biology except what I had picked up by reading my husband's
textbooks while he was in college and medical
school.
Not
textbook biology, the kind you learn in high
school with microscopes and dissecting kits.
Because of the accessibility of laptops at her
school, MaryLee recently chose a new
biology textbook with a completely online and interactive component.
Many of these
schools use Christian - based
textbooks that fail to teach students about modern advances in
biology and genetics, misstate the theory of evolution and even make the claim that dinosaurs and humans once co-habited the Earth.