Describes two activities that use jelly beans to teach the three fundamental modes of natural selection, the theory of competitive exclusion, and how competition structures communities. (ASK)

Introduces a teaching instrument called The Big Picture which is a student-generated overview of a unit. Provides a chart of units and summaries for The Big Picture. (YDS)

Presents an activity that highlights the mechanism and power of natural selection. Allows students to think in terms of modeling a biological process and instills an appreciation for a mathematical approach to biological problems. (JRH)

Reviews scientific evidence for the age of the earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe instead of following creationist beliefs about the history of Earth, the universe, and Earth's biota. (ASK)

Discusses Dewey's article on the reflex arc concept as critique of mechanistic approaches to psychology and suggestion for an approach based on evolutionary assumptions. Maintains that the resulting psychology gave an integrated way of understanding the relation between organism and environment, and cognition and behavior; the work anticipated…

This article offers a guide to teaching the history of science to students with learning disabilities and provides a lesson template designed to engage students in a specific science event from the past. Activities including hypothesis testing and an historical role-play teach the vocabulary of natural selection and evolution using the landmarked…

Discusses issues regarding evolution instruction in public schools and focuses on misconceptions such as the use of the word "belief", lack of evidence for theories of evolution, and the belief that teaching evolution as fact is proselytizing students. Presents teaching approaches to the topic of evolution. (Contains 33 references.) (YDS)

Presents a laboratory sequence that allows students to use traditional comparative methods, scientific methodology, and modern molecular data bases to test hypotheses of evolutionary relationships. (Contains 13 references.) (ASK)

Many secondary students hold misconceptions about evolution, even after instruction, that are often inconsistent with what is accepted by evolutionary biologists. Understanding evolution is difficult due to major conceptual difficulties concerning variation, differential survival, adaptation, and natural selection. In this article, the author…

Gene-culture interactions have largely been modelled employing population genetic-type models. Moreover, in the most notable application to date, the "interactive" modes have been one way rather than bidirectional. This paper suggests using game theoretic, fully interactive models. Employing the logic utilized in population ecology for coevolution…

A study was done to help teachers assist students in understanding the nature of science and evolution better. The study revealed that teacher-student interaction helps the students to enhance their knowledge and ability to proceed and succeed.

The conflict between the standards for student learning in evolution and what students actually learn is highlighted. It is vital that standards be written so that the outlined goals are practically attainable, as are used to design the state tests, and the standards for each grade level are written to coincide with results from the educational…

While praising the Sternberg et al. article, the present author has a couple of concerns. One is that the authors imply that the question of whether the Black-White IQ discrepancy has a genetic component should be a closed issue. I maintain that no argument should be intelligence evolved in colder climates because of the greater difficulty in…

Evolutionary behavioral biology suggests that certain characteristics of the human face and body are important for mate preferences and are therefore subject to sexual selection. J. Weeden and J. Sabini identify a number of weaknesses in the association between traits' attractiveness and health. In contrast, the authors argue that (a) studies on…

Advocates of Intelligent Design (ID) theory argue that evolution is a theory in crisis, ID is a legitimate scientific theory, and biology teachers should teach the controversy. Supporters of evolutionary theory testify that ID is a religious, not scientific, concept, and evolution is in no danger of bankruptcy, having survived 140 years of…