Design/Procedure, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Evaluation, and Manipulative and Personal Skills. Students are charged to work collaboratively but with individual accountability and to pay attention to the ethical and environmental implications of the investigation. Not all laboratories must include all the above components, but each component must be assessed twice during the course (and teachers are encouraged to “address” each component multiple times).
Appendix D
Some Useful Web Sites for Advanced Biology Courses
For obvious reasons, no listing of such sites can be complete, as the Web resources relevant to biology teaching are expanding daily. Presented below is a sampling of useful sites known to the panel as of this writing; simple searches by readers will turn up many additional valuable resources.
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):
Association of Science and Technology Centers:
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium:
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
Cornell Math and Science Gateway:
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
Discovery:
Edvotek (The Biotechnology Education Company)
Entrez
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez
Instructional Materials in Science Education:
Microscopy Primer:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html
National Association of Biology Teachers:
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Sciences Teacher’s Association:
National Science Education Standards:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4962.html
Teaching About Evolution:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/5787.html
NSF Student Summer Opportunities:
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/esie/studentops.htm
NSF Teacher Enhancement Summer Opportunities:
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/esie/teso/
Exploratorium:
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse:
Lawrence Hall of Science:
Access Excellence:
Cells Alive:
National Center for Biotechnology Information:
The On-Line Biology Book:
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html