Indiana University
Indiana U./ensi Sensi/better Biology Teaching
The paper "Better Biology Teaching by EmphasizingEvolution & the Nature of Science" includes Modern Science & Uncertainty as one of the four major themes the authors advocate in the teaching of biology.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Natural History Museum Collections in the 21st Century
Discover why some people feel that natural history museums are more import now than they have ever been. Familiarize yourself with some of the challenges these museums are facing.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Early Life
The aim of this article relates the nature of science to our current understanding of the origin of life and describe the formation of the atoms which build the Earth and its life.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Evolution Continues Today Can We Control It?
This article allows students to recognize that the process of evolution by natural selection continues to change our world and ourselves, both despite and because of our best efforts to control it.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Species, Speciation and the Environment
The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers this article by Niles Eldredge, evolutionary theorist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Eldredge begins with Darwin's theories and summarizes subsequent thought,...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Students will be able to identify important ideas Darwin developed during the voyage of the Beagle, and give examples of his observations that supported those ideas.
BBC
Bbc: New 'Living Fossil' Identified
Learn about the recent discovery of the the new species of coelacanth living off the coast of Indonesia.