... of the human body, either all units in succession or as a modular activity. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 human evolution lactose tolerance bioinformatics tools online student-centered activity high school Human evolution is a controversial topic worldwide...

... lessons and activities centered on a single evolutionary phenomenon – why deer mice have different fur colors in different subpopulations – to help high school students better understand how these different biological processes, operating at different scales, work together to influence a single organismal...

.... The students’ answers to questions 11 and 12 can inform the instructor as to whether the students have been able to grasp the relationship of osmolarity to tonicity and the expected movement of water with respect to osmosis. This exercise helps simplify a biological and chemical concept that high school...

...-reasoning (CER) argumentation framework that is embedded within a new eight-week, freely available curriculum unit developed by the Genetic Science Learning Center – Evolution: DNA and the Unity of Life . The scaffold provides high school students with practice in both developing and evaluating written...

... not lead to deeper understanding. This is why it is important to incorporate the scientific practices of the Next Generation Science Standards into activities in the classroom, particularly designing an investigation and analyzing data. A new twist on a classic high school biology lab demonstrates how...

... from lab activities. We describe an engineering-design-integrated biology unit designed for high school students in which they learn about the properties of slime molds, the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes, and the iterative nature of the engineering design process. Using the engineering...

... Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 bioinformatics comparative genomics evolution high school motivation Nowadays computers have a central function in scientists’ daily routine. A personal computer connected to the web is all that it takes...

... for evaluating pre-NGSS curricula to bring them into alignment with the NGSS Framework. To do this, we retrospectively analyzed materials from a high school capstone course in ecology that were developed prior to the advent of the new standards. Based on this analysis, we recommend some general steps to help...

... this cutting-edge topic into biology classrooms, list connections to the Next Generation Science Standards, and report on recent research testing the curriculum supplement's effectiveness for student learning. Human microbiome microbes biology curriculum high school education During the summer...

...Elizabeth Unsworth Identification of macromolecules in food is a standard introductory high school biology lab. The intent of this article is to describe the conversion of this standard cookbook lab into an inquiry investigation. Instead of verifying the macromolecules found in food, students use...

...-methods study, we asked the question: Can student understanding of human physiology be improved through the use of multimedia resources, specifically through the use of popular television? Episodes of Fox's popular medical drama "House, M.D." were incorporated into high school biology curricula during...

... argument instructional model middle school high school Students need to know how new knowledge is generated and validated by scientists as well as the important theories, laws, and unifying concepts of the various disciplines in order to understand science as a way of knowing. Students also must...