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Title: Insights in Biology, "The Blueprints of Infection" module
| Grade Level: | 9 - 12 |
| Other Uses: | advanced biology courses, teacher
background information |
| Type: | Teacher's guide, student book, laboratory manual (175 pp.) |
| Authors: | Educational Development Center, Inc. |
| Publisher: | Kendall/Hunt Publishing |
| Year of pub.: | 1998 |
| Price: | $39.99 |
Description: The Insights in Biology series contains five modules, of which "Traits and Fates" and "The Blueprints of Infection" are most related to genetics. Each unit provides a teacher's guide and student book/lab manual that includes readings and activities that integrate fundamental biological concepts and their relevance to human health and historical and current events. In "The Blueprints of Infection", DNA structure and function, the central dogma, and protein function are taught in the context of cholera and its etiology. The material covered is extremely current (ca. 1998).
Strengths: This resource provides a diverse range of activities and contains multiple types of assessments, including analysis questions, creative writing, problem solving, journal writing, and more. Teachers will appreciate the excellent teacher's manual, and both teachers and students will find the presentation and content engaging. The opening statement, in which students play epidemiological detectives and track down the method of cholera transmission, is particularly strong.
Weaknesses: Because the Insights series is paperbound, durability will be low. Printed in black and white, "Blueprints" has no eye-grabbing color photos.
Keywords: DNA structure, genes, cells, proteins, biotechnology, bioethics, human, plant, bacteria
Genetics concepts addressed: 2, 5, 6, 8, 9
(view genetics concepts)
Other subjects addressed: Reading, Writing, Technology, Social Studies, History, Immunology
| ISBN#: | 0787222127 |
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last updated 6/08/00