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Model-Based Inquiry in Biology : Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Ron.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology--Study and teaching (High school).
- Biology.
- Biological models.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (414 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : NSTA Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "This book helps teachers shift the emphasis of high school biology curriculum away from "we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class" to "we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world." Using the book's model-based inquiry (MBI) framework lets teachers create meaningful learning experiences for students as they strive to make sense of the world around them. Aligned with A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the book's curriculum integrates disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. The goal is to engage biology students in constructing, critiquing, revising, and testing models to explain real-world phenomena"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Authors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section 1 Using Model-Based Inquiry
- Chapter 1. Model-Based Inquiry
- Chapter 2. Framing, Tools, and Routines for Supporting MBI Instruction
- Section 2 The MBI Units
- Unit 1. From Molecules to Organisms-Structures and Processes (LS1): General Sherman
- Unit Summary
- Eliciting Ideas About the Phenomenon Stage Summary
- Negotiating Ideas and Evidence Through Tasks Stage Summary
- Task 1. What's Inside a Seed?
- Teacher Notes
- Student Handout
- Task 2. What Is the Function of the Endosperm?
- Task 3. How Do Trees Use Sugar?
- Task 4. How Does the Endosperm Produce Sugar?
- Midunit Model Revision for Unit 1
- Task 5. How Do Plants Grow?
- Task 6. Where Does All That Matter Come From?
- Task 7. What's Inside a Tree?
- Task 8. Does the Environment Affect Plant Growth?
- Task 9. How Do Trees Survive in Different Climates?
- Building Consensus Stage Summary
- Establishing Credibility Stage Summary
- Evaluation
- Unit 2. Ecosystems-Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics (LS2): Whale Plumes Change the Atmosphere
- Task 10. #WhaleLife: Interdependence in Marine Communities
- Task 11. Limiting Factors for Phytoplankton
- Task 12. Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
- Student Handout.
- Midunit Model Revision for Unit 2
- Task 13. Trophic Cascades
- Task 14. Carbon Cycle Game
- Task 15. Testing Your Model: Chlorella Investigation
- Unit 3. Heredity-Inheritance and Variation of Traits (LS3): Skin Cancer
- Task 16. What Is Melanoma?
- Task 17. Freja's Factors
- Task 18. Control of the Cell Cycle Online Simulation
- Midunit Model Revision for Unit 3
- Task 19. DNA Structure Pop Bead Model
- Task 20. What Are Proteins?
- Task 21. Protein Synthesis Simulation
- Task 22. Mistakes Happen
- Unit 4. Biological Evolution-Unity and Diversity (LS4): Lampsilis Mussel
- Task 23. Lure Morphology
- Student Handout (Part 1)
- Student Handout (Part 2)
- Task 24. Genetic Recombination
- Task 25. I Will Survive!
- Midunit Model Revision for Unit 4
- Task 26. Galapagos Finches
- Task 27. Does Beak Size Matter?
- Task 28. Where'd Those Mussels Come From?
- Teacher Notes.
- Student Handout
- Section 3 Appendixes
- Appendix A. Standards Alignment Matrixes
- Appendix B. MBI Explanation Peer-Review Guide
- Appendix C. Safety Acknowledgment Form
- Image Credits.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781681406756
- 1681406756
- OCLC:
- 1381710347
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