What do your students enjoy about your evolution unit?
Further discussion revealed that two BOE members were concerned with the presentation of the evolution unit.
Following the evolution unit exam, phylogenetic trees continued to appear throughout the course when appropriate.
Dr McInerney, of NUI Maynooth's Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Unit of the Department of Biology, collaborated with Dr James Cotton at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, to carry out the research.
However, students were not asked to construct phylogenetic trees between the evolution unit exam and final exam.
For Alexander Mikheyev, assistant professor in the ecology and evolution unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan, it's a familiar problem.
The first three units were taught with a foundation in evolution, in an effort to help students be less resistant to the content presented in the evolution unit.
The evolution unit (Unit Four) was five lectures in duration (each 75 minutes), and synthesized content from the three previous units.
A case study by Oliveira et al. (2011) examined a beginning biology teacher's attempts to deal with the evolution/creationism controversy during a three-week evolution unit.
The evolution unit comprised approximately four weeks of the course and followed instruction on genetics (DNA structure and function, cell division, and inheritance).
We administered all eight items to students enrolled in 10th grade biology courses at each high school early in the fall semester prior to their evolution unit.
