image: Teaching Tools in Plant Biology is designed to make it easy for educators to use current scientific information in their classrooms. Published monthly in an online-only format by The Plant Cell ...

And, by way of illustration, I shall refer to the teaching of biology in high schools: first, because I happen to know more about this subject than about any other; and second, because this subject is ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

BIOLOGY, as here considered, is not that of the specialist in zoology or botany, but rather that for which a place is claimed in the general education of all pupils, and especially of those in primary ...

Many college students have the same experience of learning science: “Lecture, lecture, lecture,” said Calvin biology professor Dave Koetje, “which, it turns out, was not the best way to learn.” ...

With an animated grin splitting across her face, Kate Schafer ’92 shows me a bright blue notebook that she started to fill in last year — its entries are filled with thoroughly annotated hand drawings ...

Daniel Pierce does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Matt Holden last summer helped discover five new species — deep sea corals, jellyfish, lobster and other crustacians — as an explorer on a 21-day ocean expedition from the Solomon Islands to the ...

(The Conversation) — Religious beliefs and modern biology sometimes seem to collide. But exploring those ideas with compassion and an open mind can lead to deeper learning across cultures. (The ...

Brandeis Biophysicist Herman Epstein readily concedes that he really doesn’t “give a damn” about euglena, the single-celled aquatic organisms whose elusive qualities he has been tracking most of his ...