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Title: Insights in Biology, "The Matter of Life" module
| Grade Level: | 9 - 12 |
| Other Uses: | advanced biology courses, teacher
background information |
| Type: | Teacher's guide, student book, laboratory manual (135 pp.) |
| Authors: | |
| Publisher: | Kendall/Hunt Publishing |
| Year of pub.: | 1998 |
| Price: | $39.99 |
Description: The Insights in Biology series contains five modules. Each module 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. The "Traits and Fates" and "The Blueprints of Infection" modules cover material most related to genetics. "The Matter of Life", however, contains key material not found in the other two modules: the cellular basis of life, cell growth, cellular metabolism, and cell division (mitosis). The main theme of "The Matter of Life" is the unity among the diverse forms of life on earth.
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. Both teachers and students will find the presentation and content engaging, and teachers will appreciate the excellent teacher's manual. The material covered is extremely current (ca. 1998).
Weaknesses: Because the Insights series is paperbound, durability will be low. Printed in black and white, "The Matter of Life" has no eye-grabbing color photos.
Keywords: Cells, cell division, mitosis, prokaryote, eukaryote
Genetics concepts addressed:6, 9
(view genetics concepts)
Other subjects addressed: Reading, Writing, Technology, Chemistry, Social Studies, History
| ISBN#: | 0787222062 |
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last updated 6/08/00