How Many Biology Terms are Necessary for High School Biology Education?

很久以前，许多高中生物教师就指出，目前的高中生物教科书中使用了5000多个生物术语，高中生有义务记住这么多生物术语，而不是理解生物本身。为了调查高中生物教育真正需要的最低限度的生物术语数，成立了由12名成员组成的研究课题组。我们将1500个和200个生物术语作为最低生物术语，并从现行教科书中选择了1500个术语，但这200个术语是根据教育科学文化部正在修订的高中生物课程指南而选择的。”我们提出了两个生物术语表，一个包括381个学生在小学和/或初中生物教育阶段已经学过的术语，另一个包括1388个学生在高中阶段应该新学习的生物术语。然而，我们发现很难列出上面提到的另外200个条款。然后，我们同意尝试编写高中生物课本章节，只使用术语列表中的生物术语，以及一些不在这些列表中但对我们试写章节必不可少的特殊术语。这些特殊的术语是从我们的第三个术语列表中挑选出来的。最后我们的生物学期数是1879。教师和其他人应该重新审视他们是否真的可以用1879年的生物术语在高中教授生物，但我们的建议可能是改善目前高中生物教育的一步。

It has been pointed out by many high school biology teachers since a good time ago that more than 5000 biology terms are used in a current high school biology text-book, and that high school students are obliged to memorize so many biology terms rather than to understand biology itself. A research project team consisting of 12 members was organized for the purpose of investigating the minimum number of biology terms are really necessary for biology education at the high school level.We set up 1500 and additional 200 biology terms for the minimum biology terms for it, and 1500 terms were selected from the ones used in the current text-books but the 200 terms were chosen in anticipation of the high school biology curriculum guideline which is under revision by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.We proposed two biology term lists, one included 381 terms that pupils have already learned at the primary and/or junior high school level of biology education, and the other consisted of 1388 biology terms that pupils should learn newly at the high school level. However we found it difficult to list up the additional 200 terms mentioned above. We then agreed to try to write high school biology text chapters, using only biology terms in our term lists and a few special terms being not in these lists but indispensable for our trial writing of the chapters. These special terms were picked up to from our third term list. Finally our biology terms were totaled 1879.It should be reexamined by teachers and others whether they can really teach biology at high schools with our 1879 biology terms only, but our proposal may be a step forward to improve the present high school biology education.