Creating a New Biology Curriculum: A Collaborative Process

这个十年级的生物单元课程重新定义了生物教学，使生物教学包含了新的概念和技术，具有社会相关性，具有可及性和启发性，并建立在生物、与健康有关的问题和社会之间的自然联系基础上。这六个模块一起构成了一个完整的课程，它是互动的、动手的和基于探究的，其中的信息被整合到一套连贯和相关的概念中，这些概念与学生的生活和经历有关。这些单元整合了生物学的概念和主题，主题包括传染病、癌症、作为食品和药物的植物、栖息地生长、线粒体夏娃以及你的身体和你自己。细胞和分子生物学、进化、能量和新陈代谢、发育、繁殖和遗传、生态和人类生物学等生物学概念交织成系统和相互作用、能量和物质、进化和变化模式、多样性和变异、结构和功能等主题。每个单元包含一份教师指南、学生材料和成绩评估战略和工具，课程规划者在实施课程方面提供帮助，并为方案采用者提供一套建议，以将这些材料引入学校系统。这些材料由EDC与分销商、评估者、教师和学区合作编写。

This modular, tenth-grade biology curriculum redefines biology instruction so that the teaching of biology encompasses new concepts and technologies, is socially relevant, is accessible and stimulating, and builds on the natural connections between biology, health-related issues and society. Taken together the six modules constitute a complete curriculum, which is interactive, hands-on, and inquiry-based, in which information is integrated into a coherent and related set of concepts which are relevant to students' lives and experiences. The modules integrate concepts and themes of biology in topics such as infections diseases, cancer, plants as food and medicine, habitat growth, mitochondrial Eve, and your body, yourself. The biological concepts of cell and molecular biology, evolution, energy and metabolism, development, reproduction and heredity, ecology and human biology are woven into themes of systems and interactions, energy and matter, evolution and patterns of change, diversity and variation, and structure and function. Each module contains a teacher's guide, students materials and performance assessment strategies and instruments, A Curriculum Planner provides assistance in implementing the curriculum and also a set of recommendations for program adopters for introducing and implementing the materials into the school system. The materials are developed by EDC in collaboration with distributors, evaluators, teachers and school districts.