Creating a New Biology Curriculum: A Collaborative Process

这个模块化的十年级生物学课程重新定义了生物学教学，使生物学教学包含新的概念和技术，与社会相关，易于获取和刺激，并建立在生物学，健康相关问题和社会之间的自然联系之上。这六个模块共同构成了一个完整的课程，它是互动的，实践的，以探究为基础的，其中信息被整合到一个连贯的和相关的概念中，这些概念与学生的生活和经历有关。这些模块整合了生物学的概念和主题，如传染病、癌症、作为食物和药物的植物、栖息地生长、线粒体夏娃和你的身体、你自己。细胞和分子生物学、进化、能量和代谢、发育、繁殖和遗传、生态学和人类生物学等生物学概念被编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、结构和功能的主题。每个模块都包含教师指南、学生材料和绩效评估策略和工具。课程规划师为实施课程提供帮助，并为课程采用者提供一套建议，以便将这些材料引入学校系统。教材由教育发展中心与分销商、评估人员、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.