Biological Literacy Through Classroom Community

生物学教学应融入科学的过程 调查，而不仅仅是从它产生的信息。只有通过 让学生直接参与科学实验， 知识分子的辩论，他们可以预期发展的 生物学所需的基本生物学知识 素养让学生参与这个过程需要一个教室 激励学习，教授分析技能， 信息，并捕捉好奇心的精神， 质疑 为了满足最广泛的频谱需求 学生，我们将致力于三个目标。 一是 设计和评估简单，低成本的实验练习 它阐明了基本的生物学原理， 在没有实验室的情况下进行的入门课程。 其次，我们将构建一套科学的练习， 学习解决困难的技能，这是许多人共有的 大学生，学习科学材料。的 我们学习技能方法的创新之处在于，我们 我将在一个论坛上教他们， 生物学教学，这将提供之间的交流 生物老师和学习技巧老师。 最后，借鉴合作学习方法， 在其他领域非常有效，我们将开发演习 它可以用来让所有大小国家的成员 积极思考和学习的课堂。这个产品 项目将是一个出版的手册，将探讨 在课堂上建立社区的哲学， 描述实验中的练习，学习技能， 合作学习，可以纳入 初级生物学课程。

Biology teaching should incorporate the process of scientific inquiry, not just the information resulting from it. Only by involving students directly in scientific experimentation and intellectual debate can they be expected to develop the fundamental understanding of biology required for biological literacy. Engaging students in this process demands a classroom that motivates learning, teaches analytical skills as well as information, and captures the spirit of curiosity and questioning. To meet these demands for the broadest spectrum of students we will address three objectives. First, we will design and evaluate simple, low-cost experimental exercises that illustrate fundamental biological principles and can be conducted in an introductory course without a laboratory. Second, we will construct a set of exercises in scientific study skills that will address the difficulty, shared by many college students, of learning scientific material. The innovative aspect of our approach to study skills is that we will teach them in a forum that is tightly coupled with the biology instruction, which will provide for exchange between the biology instructor and the study skills instructor. Finally, drawing on cooperative learning approaches that are highly effective in other fields, we will develop exercises that can be used to involve all members of small or large classes in active thinking and learning. The product of this project will be a published manual that will explore the philosophy of building community in the classroom and will describe the exercises in experimentation, study skills, and cooperative learning that can be incorporated into introductory-level biology curricula.