Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools: Report of the Content Panel for Biology (2002)

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).

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):

http://aaas.org/

Association of Science and Technology Centers:

http://www.astc.org/

BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium:

http://bioquest.org

Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

http://www.bscs.org

Cornell Math and Science Gateway:

http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/

Discovery:

http://www.discovery.com/

Edvotek (The Biotechnology Education Company)

http://www.edvotek.com

Entrez

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez

Instructional Materials in Science Education:

http://www.ncsu.edu/imse/

Microscopy Primer:

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/index.html

National Association of Biology Teachers:

http://www.nabt.org/

National Center for Biotechnology Information

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

National Sciences Teacher’s Association:

http://www.nsta.org

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:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse:

http://www.enc.org

Lawrence Hall of Science:

http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/

Access Excellence:

http://www.gene.com/ae

Cells Alive:

http://www.cellsalive.com/

National Center for Biotechnology Information:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

The On-Line Biology Book:

http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html