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Candace Joswick; Melissa Hulings – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
The BSCS 5E Instructional Model, an elaboration of the well-known and accepted three-part learning cycle, is a five-part approach to incorporating inquiry-based, active learning in the classroom. Developed in 1987 by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, "the 5Es" is a popular K-20 instructional practice, and as such, the Biological…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Umesh Ramnarain – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Curriculum reform worldwide has often reflected changing perspectives on the teaching and learning of science. Such perspectives underline the notion that not only the teaching of science content knowledge is relevant but also the aims and methods scientists use to further their knowledge and the social context in which science is applied. We call…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Science Curriculum, Biological Sciences
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Alix D. Dowling Fink; Taylor Allen; Paul E. Arriola; Edwin J. Barea-Rodriguez; Nitya P. Jacob; Michael Ira Kelrick; Joann Otto; C. Gary Reiness; Jacqueline Washington – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) is a non-profit educational organization committed to promoting the transformation of undergraduate STEM education by supporting departments in removing barriers to access, equity, and inclusion and in adopting evidence-based teaching and learning practices. The PULSE Ambassadors…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Inclusion, Nonprofit Organizations, Undergraduate Study
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J. Yeeles; E. Whiteside; C. Haeusler; J. Donovan; S. Myer – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
A foundational understanding of the biosciences underpins most undergraduate programmes of study that lead to a career in the healthcare professions. The study of bioscience subjects including anatomy, physiology, microbiology and biochemistry has been reported to be challenging for a subset of these students with many students reporting negative…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Attitudes
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Léonie J. Rennie – Teaching Science, 2024
The Australian Curriculum Science has "Patterns, Order and Organisation" as one of its six Key Ideas. In the biological sciences, the structural patterns revealed by observing living things are used to order and organise them in a hierarchical system of binomial nomenclature, in which living things have a generic name and a specific…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Taxonomy, Zoology
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Uchechi Agnes Ahanonye; Femi Otulaja; Ida Risenga; Shalini Dukhan – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between life sciences teachers' understanding of indigenous knowledge (IK) and their views of integrating Indigenous Knowledge in their teaching practice. A qualitative case study research approach was adopted, and purposive sampling strategy was used to select eight Grades 10-12 life…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Secondary School Science, Indigenous Knowledge, Science Teachers