"Cheetahs have become faster and faster because they have realized that it is necessary"—this statement should make teachers sit up and take notice when they teach the principles of evolution. Many ...

Structural formulas are a source of dread for many students, but they're an essential tool in biology lessons. A joint study has shown that the stress levels of students working with chemical formulas ...

Novel perspectives emerge from a recent conference on the origins of eukaryotic cells, which covered phylogenetics, population genetics and evolutionary consequences of energy requirements and ...

As any teacher knows, students need to be engaged with learning to absorb lessons in any meaningful way. Otherwise they can become distracted, disrupting everyone in the classroom and taking time away ...

Science teacher Richard Spencer’s creative approach to lessons, including his mitosis mamba and DNA boogie, were enough to make one Ofsted inspector fall off their stool Richard Spencer is head of ...

A middle school science teacher in Minnesota reportedly claimed that biology cell lessons are steeped with “capitalist indoctrination.” The teacher, Mandi Jung, works at Highland Park Middle School in ...

PROF. JEFFERY PARKER is to be congratulated on having produced an extremely well-written, well-considered, and original class-book. The teaching of so-called “elementary biology” has, in consequence ...