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- Title
OUR CHANGING BIOLOGY.
- Authors
Beck, Paul V.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the changes that take place in the biology courses in high school. The writing of biology textbooks has been a fertile field. Earlier, biology books used to have plant study, animal study and human physiology without much integration. The changes in the laboratory work are more pronounced in the present day books. For the teacher of large classes in biology in high school, the new plan is a relief. Workbooks have become popular. Under the new type of organization, there was little opportunity for the study of living things because they are not available for study. If biology is to be a study of life, it must take into account the most common phenomena of all life and its adaptations to the changing seasons. The article also presents a series of questions tending to direct attention to this seasonal plan of organization, in order to make the suggestions take a more definite form. Instead of having different forms of life to illustrate different life processes as they may be planned in the outline, it is good teaching to use a plant or animal to illustrate the different life processes and study the living thing in its entirety.
- Subjects
BIOLOGY education; CURRICULUM; LIFE sciences; TEXTBOOKS; BIOLOGY teachers; HIGH schools; LABORATORIES; SEASONS; LIFE cycles (Biology)
- Publication
Science Education, 1942, Vol 26, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730260107