Biology Inquiries: Standards-Based Labs, Assessments, and Discussion Lessons

by Martin Shields

Biology Inquiries offers educators a handbook for teaching middle and high school students engaging lessons in the life sciences. Inspired by the National Science Education Standards, the book bridges the gap between theory and practice. With exciting twists on standard biology instruction the author emphasizes active inquiry instead of rote memorization. Biology Inquiries contains many innovative ideas developed by biology teacher Martin Shields. This dynamic resource helps teachers introduce standards-based inquiry and constructivist lessons into their classrooms. Some of the book's classroom-tested lessons are inquiry modifications of traditional "cookbook" labs that biology teachers will recognize. Biology Inquiries provides a pool of active learning lessons to choose from with valuable tips on how to implement them.

Genres: Education

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2005

Reviews

[Heidi Hisrich · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many great inquiry based lessons in a single book! This book is a terrific way to bring inquiry into a life sciences course.

[Amanda Deluca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good ideas for new teachers

I'm a new biology teacher and wanted my class to be more inquiry based than worksheet based. I was overwhelmed by resources, none of which were very helpful. I found this book to be very to the point, gives good advice on when to do each lab (before or after instruction), what to say, what questions to ask and when to leave certain student questions unanswered. I plan to use this all year next year.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you teach Bio or middle school science this is definately a must use book.