Hard-To-Teach Biology Concepts: A Framework to Deepen Student Understanding

by Anne Tweed and Susan Koba

This well-researched book provides a valuable instructional framework for high school biology teachers as they tackle five particularly challenging concepts in their classrooms, meiosis, photosynthesis, natural selection, proteins and genes, and environmental systems and human impact. The author counsels educators first to identify students' prior conceptions, especially misconceptions, related to the concept being taught, then to select teaching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193353141X
• ISBN13: 9781933531410
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.