{"title":"This Month's Feature Article & a New ABT Department","authors":"W. H. Leonard","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.8.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.8.2","url":null,"abstract":"This month’s editorial is an opportunity for me to point out two important entries in this issue. The first is Rodger Bybee’s Feature Article on the next generation of national biology standards. Many NABT members know Rodger as an active biology educator, a member of the staff and later Executive Director of the BSCS. Rodger was also later called upon to lead in the development of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) at the National Academy of Sciences. About a year ago, I asked Rodger (whom I have known well for over 30 years and …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"103 1","pages":"539-539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83381891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Major in Biology","authors":"W. H. Leonard","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.6.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.6.3","url":null,"abstract":"Those of us who have taught biology for many years have probably had many opportunities to discuss possible college majors with our students, especially biology. There are many good reasons why biology is a very popular major on most campuses. I think it is worth revisiting why this is so.\u0000\u0000The field of biological sciences is absolutely fascinating. Biology easily connects to our everyday lives through the environment, our bodily functions, and our food supply. To me, that makes it one of the easiest subjects to teach, especially if you engage your students in true and active inquiry. There is …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"94 1","pages":"372-372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87320838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Short Review of the Chronology for Human Evolution","authors":"W. H. Leonard","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"In my September 2011 ABT Editorial that argued that humans are all one race, there was a reference to human evolution beginning some 100 million years ago. The date is obviously incorrect, and a colleague at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan, David Sheldon, astutely called this to my attention. I therefore offer the following synopsis of the chronology of human evolution. This represents the apparent scientific consensus and may be helpful as a teaching tool when addressing human evolution with students.\u0000\u0000Early hominids (great apes) probably came from apes similar to the chimpanzee ca. 5–10 million years ago. Remains of familiar hominids such as Australopithecus afarensis and A. africanus have …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"78 1","pages":"143-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77349589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from Susan Offner","authors":"S. Offner","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.3.2A","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.3.2A","url":null,"abstract":"One of Mendel’s seven genes in peas is the I gene on chromosome 1. Peas with at least one dominant allele, I, are yellow at maturity, whereas peas with two recessive genes, ii, are green at maturity. In the paper “Mendel’s Peas and the Nature of the Gene: …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"1 1","pages":"141-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73675295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GeneticsThe Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, the Curious and the Commonplace. By Richard V. Kowles . 2010. Prometheus Books. (ISBN 9781616142148). 337 pages. Hardcover. $25.","authors":"E. Karetny","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.2.13B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.2.13B","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"73 1","pages":"125-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73904003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in Science","authors":"C. Hibbitt","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.2.13C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.2.13C","url":null,"abstract":"Breaking through the Spiral Ceiling . Laura L. Mays Hoopes . 2010. Lulu Publishing. (ISBN 9780557923205). 163 pages. Paperback. $14.00. \u0000\u0000The primary focus of Laura Hoopes's Breaking through the Spiral Ceiling is narration of her struggle as a woman in science in the 20th century, before, as she says, \"men were ready for women in science.\" Hoopes's career as in biochemical genetics takes her to Goucher College, the Marine Biological Laboratories, Yale University, and Occidental College. Hoopes narrates her progression from the discovery of her passion for cell biology, biochemistry, and \"the thrill of research,\" the refining of her approach to scientific questions, Ph.D. qualifying exams and graduate research, to her role as a researcher, professor, and mentor in her own right. Hoopes also explores the tension between the roles of research …","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"15 1","pages":"126-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88030519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Venomous Snakes of the World. By Mark O'Shea . 2011. Princeton University Press. (ISBN 9780691150239). 160 pages. Paperback. $19.95.","authors":"C. Liptak","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.1.12.B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.1.12.B","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"30 1","pages":"57-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73011998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Squeeze: Saving the Human Planet((DVD, 2009, Tiroir A Films Productions, 67 minutes)","authors":"Kathleen Caslow","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"129 1","pages":"62-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73462870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen. By John L. Ingraham . 2010. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (ISBN 9780674035829). 326 pages. Hardcover. $28.95.","authors":"Paul R. Petterson","doi":"10.1525/ABT.2012.74.1.12.C","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/ABT.2012.74.1.12.C","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50960,"journal":{"name":"American Biology Teacher","volume":"46 1","pages":"58-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88975065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}