Sentences with phrase «schools teach biology»

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It matters when they get legislation passed at the state level to mandate illegitimate «science» be taught in schools, such that refutes big bang cosmology, evolutionary biology and an 11 billion year old universe / multiverse and 4.6 billion year old solar system.

There are reports of OFSTED inspectors demanding that schools impose a weird agenda on children, teaching that it is possible for a boy to become a girl and vice versa, that sexual identity is not something specific, that all our knowledge of biology on this subject has been wrong.

You don't have to go very far down that road before you start thinking about creation science or scientific creationism, or get involved in school board squabbles about whether Genesis should be taught alongside of evolution in high school biology courses.

The 1925 «Monkey» trial of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher who taught evolution, drove fundamentalists underground, some say.

For example, during the controversies about evolution, some Christians insisted that only the view now called creationist could be taught in departments of biology in their schools.

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.

Ecology as a branch of biology, and agricultural theory as what was taught in schools of agriculture, seemed to be totally disconnected.

Even the courts have now thrown out this silly belief when creationist tried to sue UCLA for not accepting xstian high school credits from biology classes where it was taught.

I teach an undergraduate biology lab as well as an online high school Oceanography course.

Educators can use a school garden or cooking program to teach biology, chemistry, social studies, language arts, and geography.

Most schools teach basic reproductive biology and then recommend abstinence.

When schools are run by government bureaucrats... the details of 9th - Grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals & religious observances, speech / dress / behavior codes... and every other possible issue — from how to teach math & reading... to vending machine contents & cafeteria menus — becomes a POLITICAL issue.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

His first teaching job was at Whitfield School, a small private school in St. Louis, Missouri, as a long - term substitute for a ninth - grade biology teacher who was on maternity School, a small private school in St. Louis, Missouri, as a long - term substitute for a ninth - grade biology teacher who was on maternity school in St. Louis, Missouri, as a long - term substitute for a ninth - grade biology teacher who was on maternity leave.

I completed an M.A.T. in secondary education, specializing in biology, at Winthrop University with the intent of teaching high - school science, but I decided instead to enter the University of Toledo's doctoral program in biology because the kid in me still wanted to learn how things worked.

Teaching at Lincoln University afforded Lipscomb, who is now an assistant professor in the biology department at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a cultural opportunity he says he missed as an African American who went to «majority» schools most of his life.

During his doctoral work in genetics and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Munoz - Sanjuan grew «disillusioned about the dependency on peer review to make a living [in academic science], and universities» lack of appreciation for teaching excellence when evaluating for a tenure position.

Susan Howitt, deputy head of biology teaching and learning, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, studies cell transporters in addition to her administrative and teaching duties.

Gardner cautions that when religious superstition should be on the wane, it is easy «to forget that thousands of high school teachers of biology, in many of our southern states, are still afraid to teach the theory of evolution for fear of losing their jobs.»

A high school biology teacher inspired him to pursue a teaching career.

Black teaches the most advanced biology class available at her high school in Kenmore, Wash..

When he learned that his high school biology teacher refused to teach evolution for religious reasons, he boycotted the class.

October 1964 Evolution and Creation «Biblical fundamentalists are once again in conflict with biologists, this time as a result of efforts by the National Science Foundation to raise the level of high school biology teaching.

As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a high school student; the experience taught him to think about biology from an engineering point of view.

«I was probably one of only five or six Republicans in a staff of nearly 100» at Williams Intermediate School, where she taught seventh grade biology for the past 13 years before moving last month to another district school, Blue Grass ElemeSchool, where she taught seventh grade biology for the past 13 years before moving last month to another district school, Blue Grass Elemeschool, Blue Grass Elementary.

In 2011, she taught 10th grade chemistry and biology at The Calverton School, a college preparatory academy in Huntingtown, Maryland.

She spends some of her time teaching marine biology to high school students at UCSC's Long Marine Lab, and she says that before Blackfish came out, «the kids were giddy to meet our dolphins.

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.

High school biology classes teach us that the circulatory system pumps blood and the digestive system pumps food.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High Sschool district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High SchoolSchool.

Indeed, the volunteers in this second study had been teaching college - level biology for a quarter of a century on average — and at two highly prestigious schools, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.

High school biology students are taught Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance.

And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle - school students for high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.

However, my interest in reproductive behaviors and fishes can be blamed on George Barlow, my undergraduate advisor whose excitement about science, teaching and mentorship shifted my plans from veterinary school to graduate study in evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Barbara with Robert Warner (bringing me even closer to the ocean!).

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

Considered by some a bold move, because the university had no medical school, Dr. Kang saw it as an «ideal opportunity,» believing he could «make a difference and contribute to the lofty goal of conquering cancer through innovative research and teaching in cancer biology.»

When not studying yeast in the lab, he made a home in the classroom, teaching biology to a wide range of students, in elementary school, college and medical school.

Before receiving advanced degrees she received a California Teaching Credential from California State University Los Angeles and taught high school science and biology for six years.

Veronica Segarra, an assistant professor of biology at High Point University, shares how her graduate school experiences in teaching and outreach inspired her to pursue a career in science that combines bench work, teaching and outreach.

Italian school visiting our institue and our lab.Some pepole of our lab doing as guides around PRBB and teaching some molecular biology techniques!

May I be the first to propose that Louisiana schools begin teaching a section of the biology course on the subject of the evolution of religion.

(Boston)-- High school biology taught us that we inherit certain traits from our parents that are pre-determined.

Back in the day, physicians looked at insulin as having just one single primary role in the body, the same role we're all taught in high school biology — the removal and storage of sugar from the blood after a meal.

As an experienced high school science teacher with degrees in biology and life sciences, Jason has been reimagining how we teach health since before he ever discovered Functional Medicine.

Founded by Dr. Alberto Villoldo, the Light Body School training combines ancient shamanic wisdom teachings with cutting - edge practices in nutrition, biology and neuroscience to give you the tools you'll need to transform yourself and launch a successful career doing what you love.

Michele Naber, who teaches regular and AP biology at Mission Viejo High School, in Mission Viejo, California, assigns MIT's practice problems to her students as in - class assignments and on tests.

She has taught chemistry, biology and science for 10 years in secondary schools throughout Victoria and still lectures and tutors students across Victoria.

High school biology teacher Mr. Kyriakos was the one who helped Rachel Poff find her strengths: «He taught me that I was smart.

Irene Ornovitz, who teaches biology and botany at Jonathan Dayton High School, in Springfield, New Jersey, has used a number of CIESE units, including ones on air pollution and population growth, as well as a collaborative project on human genetics.

In a 2011 issue of Science magazine (summarized without a paywall here), Penn State political scientists Michael Berkman and Eric Plutzer surveyed a nationally representative sample of public high - school biology teachers and found that only 28 percent of them consistently implement National Research Council standards for the teaching of evolution.